this reminded me about how much of a privilege it was to celebrate the weddings of a number of friends and mentors one year ago... and, of course, of all the nastiness aimed at these wonderful, loving people in the time since (not to mention the time before those wonderful days)... and, so, a toast to the end of legal discrimination... salud, kurt
Thursday, March 03, 2005
The year of living legally married
by Beren deMotier
The Oregonian
http://www.oregonlive.com/commentary/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1109854591220540.xml"Today, the wife and I will have been married for one year. Never mind that on Dec. 26 we celebrated 18 years together (by going to dinner at my mother's, of all things!), and we've seen a lot of anniversaries come and go. But this one is special.
I must admit that it has been both the pinnacle of joy and bitterly painful to have been married last March amid the support and disdain of a bipolar nation. When we got the call last year that told us Multnomah County had opened the door to same-sex marriage, we didn't hesitate for a moment. We wanted to be legally married, not just for the hundreds of legal benefits marriage offers (which we had always assumed we wouldn't get to enjoy), but because as members of a community we wanted the recognition, symbolism and celebration that marriage offers.
This year, we get to celebrate that anniversary -- with four other couples, close friends, who shared that magical day with us, all of us married in Portland's First Unitarian Church -- with an avalanche of love and support pouring in from all over.
Most of our kids were with us that day -- among us we have 10 in all -- differing in ages, attitudes and genders but united in joy for parents who have passed the test of marriage in every other way.
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