For Stew and me, news about the progress of marriage equality doesn't come from headlines or the the noise from the burgeoning circus parade of Republican presidential candidates but from private yet significant moments at airports, car rental counters and hotel registration desks.It's always bugged me that at airport customs and passport checkpoints Stew and …
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Service for an Age of Marriage Equality
The following were the words for the service at our wedding:THE MARRIAGE OFSTEWART HAMMER AND ALFREDO LANIERSaturday, September 28, 2013at The First Parish of Stow and ActonThe Rev. Tom Rosiello, officiantOPENING WORDSIt is my privilege to officiate at this wedding. Until just a few years ago,when two individuals of the same sex who loved each …
A Perfect Day: September 28, 2013
We got to the church an hour early, not that we were anxious or anything.Or maybe we were. I know I was, at the strange prospect of getting officially married by a minister, in a church, and not in a "commitment," "civil union" or other faux-marriage ceremony gay couples have invented over the years to …
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