Tonight, the House Armed Services Committee, during its mark-up, is likely to vote on an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) related to so-called "conscience protections" for chaplains and service members as it relates to gay and lesbian men and women in uniform. SLDN Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis is available for print, online, and broadcast comment throughout the day today and on Thursday as our organization pushes back on this move to relegate gay and lesbian service members to second-class status. He is able to talk about:
How this amendment is redundant in that chaplains already have the protections it purports to provide.
That the amendment opens the door to allow harassment and discrimination without penalties - it's being called the "License to Bully" bill.
That is goes even further and would allow chaplains and service members to discriminate and harass their comrades for reasons beyond actual or perceived sexual orientation, i.e. race, gender, religion.
For booking, please contact me at 202-621-5406 or zeke@sldn.org.
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