SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Religious 
Freedom Protection Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE OF MEM-
BERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND CHAP-
LAINS. 
(a) PROTECTION.—Chapter 53 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1034 
the following new section: 
‘‘§ 1034a. Protection of rights of conscience of mem-
bers of the Armed Forces and chaplains 
‘‘(a) PROTECTION OF RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE.—The 
sincerely held religious or moral beliefs of a member of 
the Armed Forces concerning the appropriate and inap-
propriate expression of human sexuality shall be accommo-
dated and shall not be the basis of any adverse personnel 
action, discrimination, or denial of promotion, schooling, 
training, or assignment. Nothing in this subsection pre-
cludes disciplinary action for conduct that is proscribed 
by chapter 47 of this title (the Uniform Code of Military 
Justice). 
‘‘(b) PROTECTION OF CHAPLAINS.—(1) A military 
chaplain is a certified religious leader or clergy of a faith 
community who, after satisfying the professional and edu-
cational requirements of the commissioning service, is 
commissioned as an officer in the Chaplains Corps of one 
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of the branches of the Armed Forces. A chaplain is a rep-
resentative of the chaplain’s faith group, who remains ac-
countable to the sending faith group for the chaplain’s re-
ligious ministry to members of the Armed Forces, to— 
‘‘(A) provide for the religious and spiritual 
needs of members of the Armed Forces of that faith 
group; and 
‘‘(B) facilitate the religious needs for other 
faith groups. 
‘‘(2) A military chaplain shall not be directed, or-
dered, or required to perform any duty, rite, ritual, cere-
mony, service, or function that is contrary to the con-
science, moral principles, or religious beliefs of the chap-
lain or contrary to the moral principles or religious beliefs 
of the chaplain’s faith group. The refusal by a military 
chaplain to perform a duty, rite, ritual, ceremony, service, 
or function that is contrary to the conscience, moral prin-
ciples, or religious beliefs of the chaplain or contrary to 
the moral principles or religious beliefs of the chaplain’s 
faith group shall not be the basis for any adverse per-
sonnel action, discrimination, or denial of promotion, 
schooling, training, or assignment. 
‘‘(c) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
issue regulations setting forth guidance to implement the 
protections afforded by this section.’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 1034 the following new 
item: 
‘‘1034a. Protection of rights of conscience of members of the Armed Forces and 
chaplains.’’. 
SEC. 3. USE OF MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AS SITE FOR 
MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OR MARRIAGE-LIKE 
CEREMONIES. 
A military installation or other property owned, 
rented, or otherwise under the jurisdiction or control of 
the Department of Defense shall not be used to officiate, 
solemnize, or perform a marriage or marriage-like cere-
mony involving anything other than the union of one man 
with one woman. 
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