History happened at the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Willard Knicely married Robert Whitman in front of more than 100 family members and friends.
When the District legalized same-sex marriage a few weeks ago, people lined up for licenses and a few days later ceremonies were performed at a government building. So, same-sex marriages themselves may no longer be breaking news, but where this one happened is noteworthy.
The Rev. Dwayne Johnson, who helped preside over the ceremony, said Metropolitan Community Church has actually been performing same-sex ceremonies since 1971.
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41 comments:
SAME SEX MARRIAGE IN THE CAPITOL?! Oh no, the world is ending!
Oh wait, it's just another day. I will be glad when we can stop wasting time over issues like this and get down to solving real challenges. I don't agree with the gay lifestyle and find the sight of a man switching down the sidewalk or a girl trying to be a dude kind of revolting. But it is their body and their right to do as they please; their choices don't affect me. I wish all the "Life and Liberty" shouting conservatives on the right would understand this concept.
I'd rather be dead than be queer.
Anonymous 9:46AM
Who's stopping you? It's best to end it all now before the inevitable happens.
Same sex marriage is an oxymoron.
You can't "Marry" the same sex.
The parts won't "Marry" no matter how hard you try.
Dumba$$ liberals!
Anon 9:44 AM, you are a liberal moron. this is not wasting time. Same sex marriages and homosexuality is immoral and a sin. People like you are ruining this country.
10:20 You're ignorant.
I'm gay and have been with my husband/partner/spouse/significant other for 10 years in a committed, monogamous relationship. How would allowing me to spiritually/legally join him affect this country in a negative way?
It seems to me heterosexuals have been way to passive this is about to end !
Homosexuality is a perversion but there are programs that have claimed success in curing this disease I hope you get the help you need !
11:16
You can live with, cohabitate, sodomize, and do whatever else you queers do, but you can never "Marry".
Your parts won't "Marry" you can't Marry!
Get it?
Isn't this kind of like 'liberals don't like guns so no one should have one' - conservatives think homosexuality is wrong so no one can be one? C'mon - you live your life, let them live theirs.
obesity is a bigger threat to the nation
So now that this has been debated for awhile, are we any closer to stopping a nuclear armed Iran? Did the deficit just shrink while debating this issue? Did my health insurance rates stops going up? Didn't think so.
12:09 Not even close ! When a man and women enter into marriage it's a covenant with GOD ! If you want the equality of marriage create your own term and church and have at it ! Leave us alone !
1:06 You can get married and not even come close to a church.
This is not about church marriage it is about the legal recognition of marriage.
The Metropolitan Church is very gay friendly and has been performing ceremonies for years, just not legally recognised until now.
12:07,
Your an idiot. Marriage has nothing to do with parts fitting together. What are you 5 years old playing with your building blocks? And I really hope you live long enough to see this country change the way it should. I would like all your dreams to crumble.
1:06,
Marriage was around long before your church. So why don't you stop trying to steal it. I am sure they would rather stay out of it anyway if people like you are the congregation.
It's an attack on Christianity !
Sure its a covenant with GOD and when you want out of it you see an ATTORNEY churches have nothing to do with the Legality of marriages or unions or however you want to recognize it
To 1:06 - I wrote the 12:09 comment. While I'm not surprised at your assumptions, I'm not a homosexual and am an active member at my church. I'm just not so naive and close-minded to think that what I believe is right for everybody. Do you have any idea what the world is like outside the eastern shore? Have you ever met a homosexual? Are you so self-righteous to think that you are above somebody else? Please - Tell me this - if this is so wrong, then why did god create them or allow them to become homosexual?
Gay marriage will open the flood gates to every pervert to marry what ever it wants personally nobody cares if your gay or not but your trying to make it normal and it's clearly not ! It will just clear the way to sue any Church who won't go along with it ! It's all about outlawing religion in this country !
Should we allow child molesters to marry children too ! We can't change our country for every perversion ! Homosexuality is a perversion and a sickness .
2:17 It is a lie to say that they can sue the church for not performing same sex marriage. When you have to resort to lies you lose the argument.
2:42 It's the truth and you know it when you have to resort to denial you lose the argument !
I don't think to people turning each others colons into Habitrails is worthy of special treatment !
2:17/2:20 have officially left the reservation. Just think about it. If we were using your obvious passion and energy about this issue that doesn't effect most of us on something that does.
2:20 - you can't allow child molesters to marry children because marriage is a contract and children - as minors - cannot enter into a contract. That is an idiotic Glenn Beck statement just as silly as the earlier comment about people being allowed to marry anything. You can't marry 'things' just other people. Gay marriage, just like interracial marriage is not a threat to marriage. It does however confer certain rights onto the married couple like being able to visit a spouse when they are in intensive care for example.
If you change the law you can Marry anything you want ! If they change the law you could Marry your sibling and this could happened if Gay marriage is the law of the land and why marriage has and must be defined as a Union between a Man and a Woman . All equal under the law ! if gay marriage becomes the law of the land you will be able to sue your way into marrying anything !
Stop pushing your perversion on the rest of us !
I don't think an unnatural life style choice should be given this honor !
You know all the arguing is really stupid. Who gives a damn what people do behind closed doors. Who cares if two people of the same sex want to be together. Just because we are gay/lesbian does not give you the right to judge us. I do believe it says not to judge others only GOD shall judge when we stand before him. There are so many of us you all don't even know we are gays/lesbians out there who take care of you and your families. So let me ask you this....Should a gay doctor allow you, your wife, husband, daughter, son, mother,father,sister or brother die if it was life or death because you hate gays you know nothing about? We just want the same rights as anyone else in this country and that's to be free and marry who we love! We just want to be equal citizens too and if we get married how is that really affecting YOU?????
An attack on decency, morality, and common sense. One commenter said it best, the two won't marry. They don't "connect". The event cannot be "consumated". Need I go on?
Get your head out of your proverbial ssa and wake up. Our social fabric is deteriorating.
How would us getting married have any affect on this country in a bad way? We see it as being equal on paper. Whether it passes in every state or not there will still be gays/lesbians living in this country! I mean seriously is it really about it opening doors for people to marry animals or objects? Seriously gay people getting married isn't going to make this country any worse than it already is! And the "Thou shall not kill" go preach that in the hundreds of jails where thousands of straight people decide to kill every day. It's not against the law to live your life happy with whoever you choose to. We will win this battle and be just as equal as everyone else. I do feel sorry for those who judge us!
5:33 I think the comments here have answered your question over and over are you really going to keep asking the same question ? Like a child who doesn't like the answer he gets from his parent and keeps repeating why ? why ? why ?
In a nut shell !
1. Most religions consider homosexuality a sin.
2. It would weaken the definition and respect for the institution of marriage.
3. It would further weaken the traditional family values essential to our society.
4. It could provide a slippery slope in the legality of marriage (e.g. having multiple wives or marrying an object could be next).
5. The gay lifestyle is not something to be encouraged, as a lot of research shows it leads to a much lower life expectancy, psychological disorders, and other problems.
6:27
1. the law gives equal protection to follow God as individuals see fit. Even if most think its a sin, thats not a reason for denying a gay person their rights.
2 and 3. Unless you plan to make divorce and/or adultery illegal this argument is crap too. Or maybe you're afraid that if you see a gay couple, you might go leave your wife for another man.
4. The "slippery slope" argument is a day dream with no evidence to back it up.
5. Gays are going to be gay regardless. Marriage does not convert or encourage someone to all of a sudden be gay. And perhaps being able to enter into a stable long-term relationship such as marriage will negate the factors you mention.
And lastly I see no one wants to touch my comment from 10:55am. The same arguments you have against gay marriage are the same ones racists had against interracial marriage. And again, the arguments just don't pan out!
I'm a straight male who is tired of us wasting time on this BS argument. It's a damn shame that with all the gay servicemen and women risking their lives abroad, they still don't have the right to come home and marry the one they love.
I'll just add that the gay community could do themselves a big favor by:
#1 Realize that NO ONE WANTS TO SEE MALES KISSING ON TV! Get this through your head and keep that American Idol dude off tv! You seriously hurt your cause everytime this happens. Thats where the "slippery slope" commentary gets more fuel to throw on the fires burning against you.
#2 Cut out the transgender crowd. If I don't want to hire you because you come to work in a skirt, well then thats my right as an employer. You can be gay, but act like the man/woman when you are in my business. Do what you want when you are on your time.
#3 Stop expecting people to embrace your gayness. It's your right to be gay, it's also our right not to want to associate with gays or the gay lifestyle.
THANK YOU 7:32...........There u go 6:25 that's why why why.....and as for 6:27 your right you're probably a nut in shell suffering from homophobia......
7:32 What an empty rambling waste of a post . I hope you get the help you need you can be cured !
The vision of marriage found in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures is one of reuniting male and female into an integrated sexual whole. Marriage is not just about more intimacy and sharing one’s life with another in a lifelong partnership. It is about sexual merger—or, in Scripture’s understanding, re-merger—of essential maleness and femaleness.
The creation story in Genesis 2:18-24 illustrates this point beautifully. An originally binary, or sexually undifferentiated, adam (“earthling”) is split down the “side” (a better translation of Hebrew tsela than “rib”) to form two sexually differentiated persons. Marriage is pictured as the reunion of the two constituent parts or “other halves,” man and woman.
This is not an optional or minor feature of the story. Since the only difference created by the splitting is a differentiation into two distinct sexes, the only way to reconstitute the sexual whole, on the level of erotic intimacy, is to bring together the split parts. A same-sex erotic relationship can never constitute a marriage because it will always lack the requisite sexual counterparts or complements.
By definition homosexual desire is sexual narcissism or sexual self-deception. There is either (1) a conscious recognition that one desires in another what one already is and has as a sexual being (anatomy, physiology, sex-based traits) or (2) a self-delusion of sorts in which the sexual same is perceived as some kind of sexual other. As one ancient text puts it, “seeing themselves in one another they were ashamed neither of what they were doing nor of what they were having done to them” (Pseudo-Lucian, Affairs of the Heart 20). The modern word “homosexual”—from the Greek homoios, “like” or “same”—underscores this self-evident desire for the essential sexual self shared in common with one’s partner.
I am not talking merely about what some prohomosex advocates derisively refer to as an “obsession with plumbing.” I am talking about a fundamental recognition of something holistic, an essential maleness and an essential femaleness. Why else would 99% of all persons in the United States (97% heterosexual, 2% homosexual) limit their selection of mates to persons of a particular sex? Why else do so many “gays” claim exclusive attraction for persons of the same sex rather than, say, gender nonconforming persons of the other sex? All this indicates a basic societal admission that there is an essential and holistic maleness and femaleness that transcend mere social constructs.
In this connection, too, it is interesting that homosexual men, even those who bear effeminate traits, usually desire very “masculine” men as their sex partners. Why? Undoubtedly many desire what they see as lacking in themselves: a strong masculine quality. Such a desire is really a form of self-delusion. They are already men, already masculine. They are masculine by virtue of their sex, not by virtue of possessing a social construct of masculinity that may or may not reflect true masculinity. They need not seek completion in a sexual same. Rather, they must come to terms with their essential masculinity.
7:53 I have reduced you to name calling haha you have raised the white flag !
813 Very Interesting.
I'm glad I'm extremely a woman and that I extremely love the male. I cannot imagine wanting something that I already have in myself. It has to be a really confusing feeling, much like a curse.
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