West Point hosts first wedding between 2 men
West Point graduate Larry Lennox-Choate, left, and Daniel Lennox-Choate, leave church following their wedding ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, at the U.S. Military Academy's Cadet Chapel in West Point, N.Y. / AP PHOTO/JILL KNIGHT
WEST POINT, N.Y.Two West Point graduates were married Saturday in the military academy's first wedding between two men.
Larry Choate III, class of 2009, married Daniel Lennox, class of 2007, before about 20 guests.
Choate, 27, taught Sunday school at the U.S. Military Academy's Cadet Chapel and said he always thought of it as the place he would get married if he could.
West Point hosted two same-sex weddings of women in late 2012, more than a year after New York legalized same-sex marriage. But Saturday's wedding was the first time two men wed at West Point.
"It's maybe one more barrier that's pushed over a little bit, or maybe one more glass ceiling that's shattered that makes it easier for the next couple," Choate said Friday.
Choate and Lennox are out of the military and wore tuxedoes for the ceremony. Some of their guests were in uniform.
The 28-year-old Lennox is getting his master's degree in business administration at Harvard University. Choate is applying to Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
The pair did not know each other as cadets but met later through a friend.
Chaplain Cynthia Lindenmeyer officiated the ceremony.
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I've always known that men who prefer the company of other men 24/7 are confused.
Humans are the aberration.
At any rate, love of any sort is something we can never have too much of.
Moreover, consider the objections of couple subject to a "pat down" by a gay policeman, who violates their sexual privacy under the guise of the "law of non-discrimination". Sexual privacy needs are afforded when an individual has adequate physical and visual separation from anyone attracted to their sex. By definition, homosexuals deny society of its sexual privacy, although they have no concept of their offense.
Militarily, effeminate and butch homosexuals emasculate our military, embolden our enemies, generate turmoil in the ranks, cost us the respect of other nations, discourage good prospective Americans from entering military service, fail to emulate the courageous GI's and Marines that served in earlier generations, and they weaken the USA.
As it affects health, homosexuals experience greater depression resulting from rejection by a majority of the population who oppose homosexually, amplified when impressionable children are exposed to a lifestyle their parents abhor, and who recognize how it terminates their family legacies. Subsequently, parents of the bride expect to pay for the wedding of a straight couple with the thought of grandchildren in the years to come. In a disenchanted and unholy union, why are homosexuals surprised of their parents' lack of support? Sadly, our moral decay lead by this minority is accompanied by severe consequences as described in the CDC's document " TODAY'S HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC' HIV rates" http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/HIVFactSheets/TodaysEpidemic-508.pdf Some insurance companies add premium surcharges for unhealthy lifestyles which involve over-eating or smoking. It seems a travesty for government officials to endorse a life shortening lifestyle such as homosexuality.
On a biological level, homosexuality is dysfunctional; ignoring that life is sexually transmitted and universally contrary to the sexual orientation of straight parents. It introduces human waste into the reproduction system which is reprehensible, it raises the risk of acquiring AIDS/HIV, increases health care costs and shortens life spans. It's like pounding in nails with a wrench, destroying the wrench and bending the nails. On a more elementary level, the plumbing and electrical professions identify different male and female fittings, knowing how they are designed to work, and that connecting two of the same yields disastrous results. Consequently, homosexuals ignore that "form follows function", at their own peril.
Theologically, homosexuality is contrary to the Bible resulting in the gay community embracing atheism as it conflicts with their hedonistic lifestyle. Scriptural condemnation begins in Genesis with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and continues through Revelation. However, consider His grace reflected in I Corinthians 6::9 "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." Rejecting His grace, we just become another Godless nation.
More compelling verses:
Leviticus 18:22
"Do not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable sin."
And for raising children: Luke 17:2
"It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin."
For those who believe in God, what could be more compelling?