House votes to stop same-sex marriages on base

So if a serviceman or woman from a state where they allow gay marriage, decides to get married in the military, they lose the right because they serve? Seems like the last people you'd want to take rights away from are members of the military.

House votes to stop same-sex marriages on base
By Donna Cassata - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Jul 8, 2011 15:30:21 EDT
WASHINGTON — Intent on delaying the new policy allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces, the House voted on Friday to prohibit military chaplains from performing same-sex marriages on the nation’s bases regardless of state law.

On a 236-184 vote, the House attached the amendment to the defense spending bill, one of several steps the Republican-controlled chamber has taken this year to delay President Obama’s new policy.

Pentagon leaders have said they see no roadblocks to ending the 17-year ban, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is likely to certify the change for mid-summer after months of training for the services.

Still, opposition remains strong in the House.
House votes to stop same-sex marriages on base

Doesn't congress have better things to do like maybe figure out how to add jobs instead of taking things away? They cut back on a lot of programs and now rights? Seems that none of what they said would work did when the unemployment rate just went up again after the wealthy got their tax cuts extended again and regular people lost a lot of help they needed but this is even more crazy than their sham of saying they care about the debt most of them helped make. Taking away states rights to people risking their lives is not the right thing to do.