My grandparents were married there, and two of my aunts. I would have been married there if I hadn't changed coasts. The idea that my sister can now get married there just made me burst into tears.

I really appreciated his comments on lessons in gender equality.

But this is a clear violation of religious freedom, because the Bible says that marriage is one man and one woman! Or something like that.

This is my favorite part:
“As much as we’ve tried to revise our marriage service to make everything equal and mutual, it still has with it some connotations and vestiges of pre-modern ways of understanding male-female relationships. I think one of the ways in which gay and lesbian couples really can teach something to straight couples is the way in which they hold up the possibility of an absolute equality and mutuality in marriage”

I believe LGBTQQUCIT2SAPHO is the more inclusive and accepted label. Please update and make sure we include *everyone* who wants to be included. Thanks in advance.

This is so important right now, at a time when the Supreme Court is contemplating the DOMA and Prop 8 cases. Of course, it might have been more help if at least one of the Justices was Protestant, but oh well, still.

It's a delight and extremely gratifying to hear him talk about the fact that heterosexual people could learn a thing or two about a more egalitarian - dare I say a more perfect - union from same-sex couples.

Mind you, I think a lot of fundies' heads would explode if they heard it. Hmmmm. ::wanders off to grab a megaphone::