'Protests shut down West Point as first gay marriage takes place at Cadet Chapel'

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Monday, December 3, 2012 - 6:28 AM Share

If the calamity howlers about gays in the military had been right, that is what would have happened the other day. But actually the first gay marriage at West Point went by very quietly.

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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