[Seaplaner]

This was an “in your face” move for no other purpose than that.

Precisely.

There appears to be this constant effort to undermine our most precious institutions (in this case, marriage, family values, and our Military).

[HiTech RedNeck]

That’s part of it; another part is the sad goose chase that the modern “gay movement” has set them upon, thinking that if they get enough public kudos they will be happy. Of course they won’t. They will feel even more vacuous if anything.