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Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on July 02, 2007, 04:08:27 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."
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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.
Sason:
Congrats on marrying your first same sex couple, Truman!
I hope there'll be many more.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Shakesthecoffecan on October 08, 2014, 03:53:50 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.
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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!
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Sason 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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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.
Sason:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on October 08, 2014, 05:16:11 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.
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Oh, how appropriate!
I must have missed that.
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