Monday, December 23, 2013

NC: Fort Bragg chapel holds first same-sex ceremony

 Blessing ceremony at Fort Bragg

& I went to basic there............(:

Three years ago, Maj. Daniel Toven couldn’t imagine being married, let alone having a ceremony in Fort Bragg’s Main Post Chapel. Like all gay soldiers at the time, he was living under the policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” — a policy that kept separated his personal life and his work.

But after a whirlwind of changes that began with the repeal of the ban in 2011, Toven and his partner, Johnathan Taylor, have broken ground.


The pair, who wed in Washington, D.C., in August, blessed their marriage before more than 100 people at Fort Bragg on Saturday.

The ceremony — while not technically a wedding, which would be barred by state law — is believed to be the first for a same-sex couple at Fort Bragg.

More with video if you're brave enough @ Fay Observer

7 comments:

  1. Aww jeez! You just had to post this, didn't you?

    Isn't Bragg where Airborne cats are made?
    The same guys who parachuted in at Normandy and Operation Market Garden in Belgium...?

    Those dudes are doing somersaults in the grave.

    Current and former Special Forces must feel so very proud too.

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    1. The SF museum is there! On a brighter subject, did you see the sleeper, par excellence, I posted today?

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  2. Sickening! I really can't express in strong enough words my disgust and repulsion at this. I'm also curious how they were able to find other soldiers willing to participate in this travesty.

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    1. how they were able to find other soldiers willing to participate in this travesty.

      Must be of the same persuasion.

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    1. It's a bunch of officers you can't expect anything good to happen when they are in one place.

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