Best wedding processional. Ever. Now, the backstory...

Deacon's Bench ^ | July 25, 2009 | DEACON GREG KANDRA

[Minn]

2 Samuel 6:16 - 6:23

I guess it wouldn't do to pass up an opportunity to condemn dancing as being sexually suggestive, now would it?

I'm not quite clear on your point. Are you condemning dancing as sexually suggestive, or condemning those that condemn?

[freedumb2003]

>>Catholicism...sucking the fun out of Christianity for 2,000 years..<<

Heathens and Liberals — demeaning and belittling marriage since the 1960’s.

[Minn]

You're confusing your personal sexual fantasies...

What kind of twisted mind ever associates grade school nuns with anything sexual? Yours I guess.

Out of curiosity, where did you pick up the hatred of the papists; some unbalanced and sick relative? Does your hatred also extend to Jews, blacks, and other non WASPs?

[MrEdd]

The second.

The dancing in question is pretty tame.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Quoting Scripture out of context is the crutch of the illiterate. We are all to judge behavior, particularly ignorant behavior like yours. Your eternal sentence will be handed down by the Almighty. You'd best acquire some humility and do some penance lest ye perish as Saint Luke repeatedly counseled.

Your arrogance and ignorance are the greatest impediments to your much needed conversion but you'd best fervently pray that your defective gray matter will be the mitigating factor in your particular judgment. When you're vomited out, you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

[Minn]

unruly teenagers going to the prom 10 minutes before they made a lifelong covenant oath with God.

I guess we'll be able to judge the validity of your assessment as the marriage unfolds. Or maybe a little fun during a ceremony has no effect on the solemnity of the occasion or the commitment to the oaths taken.

[Lurker]

We are all to judge behavior, particularly ignorant behavior like yours.

Ignorant? I don't think so. One thing is for damned sure, I'm not ignorant of Catholic doctrine. I know it quite well actually.

Your eternal sentence will be handed down by the Almighty.

I'll take my chances with Him thanks very much.

As to the rest, blah, blah, blah. Another Catholic who's butt cheeks are clenched so tight you couldn't pull a needle out of your ass with a tractor.

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[luvie]

EEUUWW....no, you’re NOT the only one appalled. What disrespect for the institute of marriage and of God.

[Minn]

I’m probably the only person on FR who is completely appalled by this spectacle.

Unfortunately, you surely are not. There's a very real strain of "anything fun violates my constipated sense of decorum, and God agrees with me" around here.

[supremedoctrine]

‘twas a joke, Lurker.
Actually I was once accused of being a Hitchens clone
on FR because of my ambivalence toward Mother Theresa,
a position I came to before I knew who Hitchens was, which goes back a good 15 years. But I am not gonna beat
the dead horse of that argument either.

[Jo Nuvark]

[... Um . . . . No..]

There ya go. Spoiling the point AND
the spirit of a good comment. Try
reading my mind instead of my words.

Where is Claire Voyance when you need her?

Sheesh!

[AnAmericanMother]

Dang. Sorry. Our family is as spiritually sensitive as a collection of cast iron Clydeside boilers . . . . :-D

Plus of course I'm always ready to box 2-3 rounds on the subject of music, which is one of my hobbyhorses (the others are retrievers and, oddly enough, horses).

[AnAmericanMother]

And I just remembered (but it's BEEN 32 years, o.k.?) that at the time the Episcopal Cathedral had an absolute ban on any non-sacred music being used for a marriage ceremony. I mean, absolute. Like you not only couldn't get away with a popular dance song like "Forever", you couldn't even get away with semi-sacred stuff like the mushy solos that are often warbled by bad sopranos at weddings ("The Voice that Breathed O'er Eden" or "Because" or (I kid you not)"I'd Rather Have Jesus").

We conspired with the organist to have a suite of 14th century dances for the incidental music because, as he put it, in those days there weren't any clear lines between the sacred and secular. Besides, the Dean was particularly unmusical and unliterary (although he was a faithful Christian and though retired for years stood up on the side of the orthodox in the recent controversy), and wouldn't have noticed.

[netmilsmom]

Yeah, that one is better!

[PLMerite]

Not quite the church scene from “The Blues Brothers,” but pretty good for amateurs!

[StilettoRaksha]

Very Cool

[Rodamala]

LOL, I was grinning all the way though! And started clapping as the bride entered, just about the same time she got the standing O from the guests.

A wedding that no one will ever forget.


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Me. too.

Traditionalist that I am, I was suprised to find myself really liking it.

I guess it was because they were truly enjoying it all; guests, and the wedding party—no jitters, etc that I had for my very traditional wedding/cathedral length train, etc. Not that I did not enjoy my wedding, but I sure did not have as much fun.

I hope the joy stays with them for many years to come.

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Me, THREE!!!

Except... when the camera swung back to the bride I was all smiling and welling up with tears like a gurlieman.

I always do that at weddings. Can't help it!

[iowamark]

To be perfectly honest I am amazed that it was permitted in a religiously service.

ELCA churches are not very religiously anymore.

[metmom]

Best Wedding Processional ever?

No.

But they got what they wanted.

Attention whores.

[metmom]

I’m probably the only person on FR who is completely appalled by this spectacle.

No, you're not.

But I expect we'll be criticized for being a bunch of frumpy, fuddy-duddies.