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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5730 on: October 08, 2014, 03:53:50 pm »
Wow!
That is awesome.
Congrats for you!
Can I call ya preacher now?  :laugh:

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.
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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5731 on: October 08, 2014, 04:45:39 pm »
Congrats on marrying your first same sex couple, Truman!

I hope there'll be many more.

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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5732 on: October 08, 2014, 05:14:38 pm »
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.

remember me with joy and laughter
for that's how I'll remember you all
if you can only remember me with tears
then don't remember me at all


I will readily admit that sometimes fail at that!


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!

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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5733 on: October 08, 2014, 05:16:11 pm »
Congrats on marrying your first same sex couple, Truman!

I hope there'll be many more.

Hiya Sonja,

I could be wrong, but I believe I remember Truman telling the story that he married a same-sex couple before......when he did the ceremony he carried a bible and copy of Brokeback Mountain with him.


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!

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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5734 on: October 08, 2014, 05:50:12 pm »
Hiya Sonja,

I could be wrong, but I believe I remember Truman telling the story that he married a same-sex couple before......when he did the ceremony he carried a bible and copy of Brokeback Mountain with him.

Oh, how appropriate!

I must have missed that.

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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5735 on: October 08, 2014, 06:08:09 pm »
Smiling through my tears.  :'(
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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5736 on: October 09, 2014, 12:49:44 pm »
Naw, actually it was a hetero couple, but I did carry Beyond Brokeback with me and I will again on Saturday.

On Saturday I am marrying this couple who are of European descent but they want to step over a broom. This is a version of Jumping the Broom, which I am told, was the way African slaves were married in the days of slavery. They are just going to step over it because neither of them are physically able to jump. They also asked if I could bring a broom because they did not have one. Which got me to thinking maybe they use a vacuum cleaner, which got me to wondering if you want to be modern about it would you jump a vacuum cleaner instead of a broom. 
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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5737 on: October 09, 2014, 02:25:26 pm »
Or, if you want to be truly modern, have a roomba run a circle around them.  They won't even have to move.


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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5738 on: October 09, 2014, 03:38:04 pm »
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Re: Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
« Reply #5739 on: October 09, 2014, 03:40:56 pm »
Or, if you want to be truly modern, have a roomba run a circle around them.  They won't even have to move.




I'd pay good money to see that!