{"id":20398,"date":"2012-12-03T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T12:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20398"},"modified":"2013-11-01T23:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T02:34:20","slug":"west-point-chapel-hosts-homosexual-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/west-point-chapel-hosts-homosexual-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"West Point Chapel Hosts Homosexual Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple news outlets<\/a> carried the Associated Press report<\/a> on a homosexual ceremony conducted in the Cadet Chapel at the US Military Academy at West Point (though the Stars and Stripes <\/em>probably wins for the most interesting comments<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate, exchanged vows in the regal church in an afternoon ceremony, attended by about 250 guests and conducted by a senior Army chaplain…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was not the first such service at West Point, though the first in that particular building.\u00a0 Army 1st Lt Ellen Schick and Shannon Simpson were apparently the first homosexuals to be married<\/a> at West Point a couple of weeks prior.\u00a0 It seems since they were young and unknown, their ceremony occurred without much publicity.\u00a0 (By contrast, Fulton is an outspoken homosexual advocate, a member of the SLDN-OutServe board, and President Obama appointed her to West Point’s advisory board<\/a> in 2011.)<\/p>\n

The two did have one issue:\u00a0 Finding a chaplain to officiate, since all at the Academy declined to perform the service.\u00a0 They ultimately found “a friend,” Episcopalian US\u00a0Army Chaplain (Col) Wesley Smith, said to be the senior Army chaplain at Dover Air Force Base.<\/p>\n

Also at FoxNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multiple news outlets carried the Associated Press report on a homosexual ceremony conducted in the Cadet Chapel at the US Military Academy at West Point (though the Stars and Stripes probably wins for the most interesting comments). Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate, exchanged vows in the regal church in an afternoon ceremony, attended by about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,1905,38,5284,2204,3725,442,2,43,3727,3724,3726,1821,231,3728,101],"class_list":["post-20398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-brenda-sue-fulton","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-dover","tag-ellen-schick","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-outserve","tag-penelope-gnesin","tag-shannon-simpson","tag-sldn","tag-usma","tag-wesley-smith","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}