Posted on 09/01/2009 11:31:58 AM PDT by Steelfish
Same-Sex Marriages Begin In Vermont
JOHN CURRAN, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
After 17 years together, Bill Slimback and Bob Sullivan couldn't wait another minute to get married. So they didn't.
With Vermont's new law allowing same-sex marriage only a minute old, they tied the knot in a midnight ceremony at a rustic lodge, becoming one of the first couples to legally wed under a law that took effect at midnight Monday.
Dressed in suits, saying their vows under a large wall-mounted moose head, the two Whitehall, N.Y., men promised their love, exchanged rings and held hands during a modest 17-minute ceremony. Moose Meadow Lodge co-owner Greg Trulson, who's also a Justice of the Peace, presided.
"It feels wonderful," said Slimback, 38, an out-of-work Teamster who is taking Sullivan's last name as his own. "It's a day I've been long waiting for, and a day I truly honestly thought would never come."
Slimback said he and Sullivan, 41, have long wanted to cement their relationship with a wedding, but since they couldn't legally marry in New York they chose to wed even before Vermont's gay marriage era officially dawned.
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Now the “Green Mounting State”
Well, at least they seem fond of moose. But then, what does that mean? Soon, people in Vermont will be wedding large deer?
Looks like they’ve all done faceplants onto concrete
And yet, they are no more married than they were before.
I can call my dog a cat but that doesn’t mean it can climb trees.
Marriage is not a malleable word or concept. Despite the wishes of people to make it anything they want it to be, it is what it has always been.
I feel sorry for them.
They purposely cropped the moose out of the picture. It would have been the most handsome face otherwise.
There are days I wonder how much even God can stand before He lets ‘er rip!
The JP looks like he wouldnt mind being invited to a threesome with these guys either.
at least he’d wanna be sniffing ‘em.
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An out-of-work Teamster (named SLIMBACK??), are they allowed to be gay?
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It was probably included in the cost of the so called ceremony.
The wifeys name is Bill Slimback. Willy Slimback. If he didn’t make it up himself then God got the first laugh in on the day he was born.
“I feel sorry for them.”
I’ll second that.
There will be another major salt source in the Vermont pillars.
Pretty much. They’ll marry anything from a chair to their neighbor’s 10-year old son.
That priest in the picture wont be smiling once he’s kicked the bucket..it’ll be someplace ‘warm”.
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