An article by Trudy Ring in The Advocate, dated 8 December 2017, reporting that The Salvation Army maintains marriage is limited to opposite-sex couples for its own ordained officers and that in 2012 its leaders signed an open letter opposing marriage-equality legislation on religious-freedom grounds, while spokesman Lt. Col. Ron Busroe stated the organization applies "no litmus test" against LGBT applicants for employment, does not require an aid recipient to renounce an LGBT identity, provides equal benefits to same-sex and opposite-sex employee spouses, and no longer lobbies against marriage-equality laws. The article characterizes the organization's position as having evolved over recent decades without naming a single date for that shift.
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An established LGBTQ-focused journalism outlet independent of The Salvation Army, quoting an on-record organizational spokesman directly and naming both the continued doctrinal restriction on officer marriage and the organization's own non-discrimination commitments. NotesCited for The Salvation Army's sexuality-position and its detail, corroborating and dating the organization's own page.
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PublisherThe Advocate
Publication Year2017
URLhttps://www.advocate.com/religion/2017/12/08/salvation-army-we-meet-human-need-without-discrimination
Source Typejournalism
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This source names The Salvation Army directly: "dated 8 December 2017, reporting that The Salvation Army maintains marriage is limited to opposite-sex couples for its own ordained officers and that in 2012 its leaders signed an open letter..."
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