So there I was, standing on the altar. Swaying back and fourth anxiously as the clergy read the passage: “Christian marriage is between a man and a woman.”
I felt a pang. To me it sounded like a George Bush advertisement straight out of his 2004 political campaign. I felt excluded.
But now was not the time and place to speak up. This was not my wedding, it was my close friend John’s. In fact, it wasn’t even the wedding, it was the rehearsal. And if John and his bride Maria, both devout Christians, had selected a pastor who wanted to read that line, who was I to stop them? After all, I knew how John felt about gay people- he loved us! He is one of my closest friends and I knew that one day when I get married he’d be just as thrilled to be a groomsman as I was for him.
So I let myself feel the momentary pain, and moved on.
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