Wow!
That is awesome.
Congrats for you!
Can I call ya preacher now?
However, this part makes it all bitter sweet!
"So this morning, I, who cannot marry the person I would marry if I were so enclined, took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and became commissioned to unite one man and one woman in matrimony."
Brother, it is days like this I wish you were here. I remember you sending me a message on yahoo saying maybe one day I could perform the marriage of our own kind.
Today was the day.
Yesterday the Commonwealth we were born into began issuing licenses for same sex couples. By the end of the day I appointments to marry three couples starting Friday. Then this afternoon I got a call from two young ladies, asking could the come now. I said please do.
They came with a friend, and told me they had been married three years ago, but just wanted the basic pronouncement to make it legal and that was what I did, in a small office upstairs we have started calling the wedding chapel. The license had previously said "Groom" and "Bride", it now says "Spouse" in both places. They both promised to each other till death, and I had the very great pleasure to pronounce them married.
Their friend asked them what date they were going to use as an anniversary. One wife said "all of them, the meeting date, the first kiss date...."
I wish you could have lived. I wish Jim Gay could have done your wedding to Gene. But I cannot be sad today. Today is the day your wish came true, and I remember it.