Word: wedded
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...power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I hereby pronounce you partners for life." THE REV. KIM CRAWFORD HARVIE, minister of the Arlington Street Church in Boston, as she married David Wilson and Robert Compton, one of the first gay couples in Massachusetts to wed after same-sex marriages became legal last week...
Although the rush had died down at Cambridge City Hall after Monday’s exuberant early-morning celebration, same-sex couples continued to exercise their new legal right to marry yesterday, joining the more than 1,000 gay couples who have now wed across the state...
...story begins not in Oregon but in Canada, where last July the top court in British Columbia--just an afternoon's drive from Multnomah County--legalized same-sex marriage. Hundreds of gay Oregonians began traveling north to wed. When they returned, flush with emotion, scores called Basic Rights Oregon (B.R.O.), the state's biggest gay group, demanding to know what it was doing to win marriage rights at home...
Thorpe was shocked by how many gay San Franciscans showed up to wed. "We had actually thought we should identify some couples who would want to marry," she says. "We had no idea." Now they knew: hundreds would come, maybe more...
...same-sex couples who wed in Oregon may not be married forever. Judge Bearden's ruling that the state must recognize the marriages is being contested, and everyone is waiting for the higher courts. But Roey Thorpe got what she wanted: the pro-gay side goes into that case with the p.r. armor of 6,044 happy newlyweds. Those who oppose same-sex marriage must now argue against rights already granted. "I give them credit for achieving that beachhead," says the G.O.P.'s Mannix. "But will that short-term objective be worth weakening their long-term objectives...