UMS: Voice of faith crucial to young gays

NASHVILLE (UMNS) -- At age 23, the pain of believing that God didn’t love him because he was gay was too much for “George.” He decided to commit suicide. But at the darkest time of his life, he felt overwhelmed by a loving divine presence and he clearly heard in his head the words “Don’t do it.” Listening to that voice saved his life.

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USA Today: If gays serve openly, will chaplains suffer?

By Arnold E. Resnicoff (July 12, 2010)

No, the mission is to serve all troops.
In 1943, four Army chaplains gave away their life vests to save others when the troopship Dorchester, which had been torpedoed, sank. Those chaplains (two Protestants, one Catholic and one Jew) comforted the wounded — of all faiths — with their dying breaths.

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