Congratulations! Mazel Tov! Gong Shi! !Felicitaciones!
Congratulations to all the newly married and newly licensed couples in California! Have long and happy and healthy marriages!
As for those counties in California that have stopped performing ceremonies to protest the legalization of same sex marriages: Shame on you! This is the sort of thing that bratty kids do. Like when I was younger, I was on a swim team and at the end of the season, they gave everyone a blue gym bag. My younger sister wanted the bag and I must have been forced to give it to her. Rather than give it to her, I cut the bag up with a pair of scissors. So she couldn’t use it. Neither could I. I’m more mature now. And I realize now that if I didn’t cut that bag up, I could still use it now. And she could use it as well.
Maybe something positive can come out of these “protests.” Maybe there are some people have not supported same sex marriage in the past, but if they experience more hurdles to getting married themselves, they will understand what it has been like for same sex couples. And what it is still like for same sex couples in most of the U.S. These counties haven’t completely banned marriages or the issuing of licenses, so it may take more for people to come around to realizing what it is like to have rights given to others and then denied to them.
Kudos to those ministers who will show up outside the Kern county clerk’s office and perform marriage ceremonies anyway. That’s awesome!
