Java Boys coffee house in Wilton Manors to hold charity auction Dec. 3 benefitting Poverello Center

From Java Boys in Wilton Manors:

Please join us on Monday, December 3, 2012 7PM...@ Java Boys for our first Charity Auction. Bring your Cash or Credit Cards and walk home as the highest bidder with something fabulous...

We will be showcasing amazing artwork, paintings, photography, sculptures, antiques, rare finds, pop art, and collectibles ... this event is in support of Poverello Center in Wilton Manors.

West Point chapel hosts its first same-sex wedding

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Cadet Chapel, the landmark gothic church that is a center for spiritual life at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was hosting its first same-sex wedding Saturday.

Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate, were exchanging vows in the regal church in an afternoon ceremony attended by around 250 guests and conducted by a senior Army chaplain.

The two have been together for 17 years. They had a civil commitment ceremony that didn't carry any legal force in 1999 but had longed hoped to formally tie the knot. The way was cleared last year, when New York legalized same-sex marriage and President Barack Obama lifted the "Don't ask, don't tell," policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military.

The brides both live in New Jersey and would have preferred to have the wedding there, but the state doesn't allow gay marriage.

"We just couldn't wait any longer," Fulton told The Associated Press in a phone interview Saturday.

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