WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- The landmark church at the center of spiritual life at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has hosted its first same-sex wedding.
Brides Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate, exchanged vows in the regal church in a Saturday afternoon ceremony attended by about 250 guests.
The couple have been together for 17 years. They had a civil commitment ceremony that didn't carry any legal force in 1999, and had long hoped to formally tie the knot.
New York legalized same-sex marriage last year, just months before President Barack Obama lifted the policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military.
The ceremony is the second same-sex wedding at West Point. Last weekend, two of Fulton's friends got married in another campus chapel.
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