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For Gay Couples, New Rituals at the Altar
New York Slimes ^
| November 23, 2003
| LOIS SMITH BRADY
Posted on 11/23/2003 10:33:14 AM PST by putupon
Edited on 11/23/2003 10:44:25 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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AST week's ruling by the highest court in Massachusetts legalizing gay marriage was perfectly timed in many ways.
It feels like a snowball effect, coming only months after Canada legalized marriage and three years after Vermont allowed civil unions for gay couples. And it comes just in time for same-sex couples to begin planning a June wedding.
It also makes one think that same-sex weddings may soon become nearly as commonplace as the traditional black tie, country club and limousine kind.
But what will this new-yet-old social ritual look like? Will same-sex couples be guided by Emily Post or will men walk down the aisle to "Today I Met the Boy I'm Going to Marry," as David Tutero and Ryan Jurica did last September?
Marcy Blum, a longtime wedding planner in Manhattan, recalled that a decade ago or more, when gay couples celebrated their unions, most of the guests were gay. All straight traditions were thrown out or mocked. "It was like going to the baths when Bette Midler would sing there," she said, adding that the couple wore whatever they well pleased, "heels if they were men. It was a big, fun, campy thing. Now, it's just as serious as a traditional straight wedding."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: fags; goodridge; hivpositive; homosexualagenda; queers; rimrangers
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or will men walk down the aisle to "Today I Met the Boy I'm Going to Marry," as David Tutero and Ryan Jurica did last SeptemberOh puh-leeze.
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:33:14 AM PST
by
putupon
To: Admin Moderator; All
This is an excerpt, forgot to mark the buton.
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:34:43 AM PST
by
putupon
(Go Hoo's-Beat VT!!!)
To: putupon
Will condoms be thrown at the newly wedded gay couple instead of rice?
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:37:34 AM PST
by
Momaw Nadon
(The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open.)
To: putupon
I guess the gay priest concludes the ceremony with "the husband may now suck the **** of the bride"
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:39:17 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
("A republic, if you can keep it.")
To: putupon
gay divorce lawyers will do well.....who gets the poodle...
medical insurance rates will go through the roof....
and in the end many normal familes will be without coverage
& course this will lead to Hillary care
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:40:32 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
Oh, and some pics of the happy couples:
![](http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/11/23/fashion/23marr.1842.jpg)
Sara Krulwich
Fern Berman, left, and Faith Middleton in Manhattan.
![](http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/11/23/fashion/23marr.1841.jpg)
Associated Press/Aaron Harris, Canadian Press
Mark Reid, left, and Kyle Rae, a Toronto City
Council member, after their wedding in Toronto.
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:43:42 AM PST
by
putupon
(Go Hoo's-Beat VT!!!)
To: putupon
It also makes one think that same-sex weddings may soon become nearly as common... That's because these "marriages" will have the lifespans of fruitflies and the participants will be back to repeatedly desecrate more altars.
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:45:53 AM PST
by
Plutarch
To: putupon
Fixed, but you don't have to excerpt NYT.
To: putupon
They can call it what they want, but it will never be a marriage.
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:48:44 AM PST
by
mom-7
To: thoughtomator
"the husband may now suck the **** of the bride"I guess a "traditional" placement should be put in place, left and right, so the presiding Minister can be aware of whom the ****ee and the ****er is.
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:50:16 AM PST
by
EGPWS
To: putupon
Minister: "You may kiss the bride. Which one of you is the bride? Okay -- butch one, you may kiss the effeminate one. I now pronounce you man, er, woman, er ... whichever...and spouse. Whatever!"
To: putupon
Next up...pedophiles will be able to marry their "sweethearts."
Liberals will champion this as an "alternate lifestyle" and will label anyone who disagrees as "pedophobic."
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:52:24 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Conservative: One who doesn't believe that turning the U.S. into a third-world nation is 'progress'.)
To: Plutarch
these "marriages" will have the lifespans of fruitflies and the participants will be back to repeatedly desecrate more altars. How's that different from heteros like Elizabeth Taylor? Just wondering about your line of reasoning.
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:53:03 AM PST
by
nwrep
To: thoughtomator
I guess the gay priest concludes the ceremony with "the husband may now suck the **** of the bride"
Hey! You can't refer to queers like that! They are "gay" people and are good at "fashion" and "food" and are "bubbly"! I've seen them on TV that way! And TV does not lie!
You ARE NOT supposed to refer to queer men "sucking" on other queer mens parts! And you BETTER NOT refer to one queer guy putting that same part up the fecal lined exhaust of another queers guy! No! No! No!
Referring to the physical reality of what queer men do would roll back decades of very hard work by the homosexuals to focus everyones attention on the "emotional" aspect of queers. And away from the gross stuff they do to each other that 98% of the rest of the planet would never do. And before you know it the conversation would be involved in the reality of the subject. And the media says you can't do that!
So remember, queer men are just like all the rest of us~@!
To: putupon
Eyuch... now it's not the Best Man... it's the Best Queer !!!
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:59:38 AM PST
by
GeekDejure
(<H3> Searching For The Meaning Of "Huge" Fonts !!!</H3>)
To: thoughtomator
No, the ceremony ends with "...who wants fudge?"
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posted on
11/23/2003 11:02:15 AM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Proud member of the right-wing extremist neanderthals.)
To: nwrep
How's that different from heteros like Elizabeth Taylor? Just wondering about your line of reasoning.
I don't know Plutarch's "line of reasoning", nor do I propose to speak for said person...however, I will answer your postulation...
Elizabeth Taylor married MEN, and she was a WOMAN!
Also, the term "gay marriage" is an abomination and an illegitimate term. I thought the Gay community wanted "marriage"...now there must be "Religious Ceremonies"? A "Civil Service" isn't what they want?
Now all "Religions" must perform like the catcher on the wedding night?
I don't THINK so!
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posted on
11/23/2003 11:02:18 AM PST
by
Itzlzha
(The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote!)
To: putupon
she said, adding that the couple wore whatever they well pleased, "heels if they were men. It was a big, fun, campy thing. Now, it's just as serious as a traditional straight wedding."They are wanting to present to normal people that they aren't the flamboyant freaks that they actually are.
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posted on
11/23/2003 11:04:19 AM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: Itzlzha
Elizabeth Taylor married MEN, and she was a WOMAN!I beg to differ.
One person she was married to was my RINO Senator, John Warner. I think it was Michael Jackson she left him for.
Everyone knows there are no GOP men in the U.S. Senate. They have all had their manhood removed.
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posted on
11/23/2003 11:13:25 AM PST
by
putupon
(Go Hoo's-Beat VT!!!)
To: putupon
What will be considered failure to consummate one of these so-called 'marriages'?
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posted on
11/23/2003 11:16:14 AM PST
by
Loyalist
(Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Amchurch.)
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