Military chaplains may perform same-sex unions

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The Pentagon has decided that military chaplains may perform same-sex unions, whether on or off a military installation.

The ruling announced Friday by the Pentagon's personnel chief follows the Sept. 20 repeal of a law that had prohibited gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.


http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/30/3950547/us-military-chaplains-may-perform.html#ixzz1ZWxxGF9Q
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I wonder what the ceremony is like. Usually the person officiating (Minister, Priest, etc) asks "who gives the bride to this man". Do they now ask "who gives the 'bottom' to this 'top'" assuming there is a correlation between female/bottom and man/top?
 
\(\()/)/ said:
The Pentagon has decided that military chaplains may perform same-sex unions, whether on or off a military installation.

The ruling announced Friday by the Pentagon's personnel chief follows the Sept. 20 repeal of a law that had prohibited gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.


http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/30/3950547/us-military-chaplains-may-perform.html#ixzz1ZWxxGF9Q
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So what? Why are you making an issue out of a non-issue? Something is wrong with you.
 
poet said:
So what? Why are you making an issue out of a non-issue? Something is wrong with you.
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Posting a verbatim news item makes something an issue?


Please.


Get over yourself.
 
3Dweeb and Poet seem to have developed a fondness for one another.


Given the thread topic, maybe there's love in the air.
 
apple0154 said:
I wonder what the ceremony is like. Usually the person officiating (Minister, Priest, etc) asks "who gives the bride to this man". Do they now ask "who gives the 'bottom' to this 'top'" assuming there is a correlation between female/bottom and man/top?
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apple, your sense of humor is freaking hilarious. you just don't expect some of your humor to come from you.
 
Yurt said:
apple, your sense of humor is freaking hilarious. you just don't expect some of your humor to come from you.
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Thanks, Yurt. But I was wondering what is the custom. Is one person "given away"? Also, what's said after the ceremony to replace "I now pronounce you man and wife"?

Maybe Google knows the typical ceremony.
 
Yurt said:
apple, your sense of humor is freaking hilarious. you just don't expect some of your humor to come from you.
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Thanks to Google. http://thegayweddingexperience.com/the-ceremony-script/

(Excerpt) We are here to celebrate Tom and Brian. Celebrate their individuality, who they are as a couple, and who they will become as husbands.

Tom and Brian, your wedding rings represent the unconditional love that you have for one another and are a symbol of the vows that you will make today.
Tom, please take this ring and place it on Brian’s finger and repeat after me: I, Tom take you Brian, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love.
TOM: I, Tom take you Brian, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love………

OFFICIANT: Brian, take this ring, put it on Tom’s finger and repeat after me: I, Brian take you Tom, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love.
BRIAN: I, Brian take you Tom, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love………..

OFFICIANT: By the Power vested in me as one of your many friends who loves you very much, it is my privilege to stand here on this the seventeenth of October in 2010, to pronounce you Thomas Vincent Privitere and you Brian James Edwards as husbands for life.
You may kiss your husband. (End)

So they're both husbands. Now we know.
 
apple0154 said:
Thanks to Google. http://thegayweddingexperience.com/the-ceremony-script/

(Excerpt) We are here to celebrate Tom and Brian. Celebrate their individuality, who they are as a couple, and who they will become as husbands.

Tom and Brian, your wedding rings represent the unconditional love that you have for one another and are a symbol of the vows that you will make today.
Tom, please take this ring and place it on Brian’s finger and repeat after me: I, Tom take you Brian, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love.
TOM: I, Tom take you Brian, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love………

OFFICIANT: Brian, take this ring, put it on Tom’s finger and repeat after me: I, Brian take you Tom, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love.
BRIAN: I, Brian take you Tom, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love………..

OFFICIANT: By the Power vested in me as one of your many friends who loves you very much, it is my privilege to stand here on this the seventeenth of October in 2010, to pronounce you Thomas Vincent Privitere and you Brian James Edwards as husbands for life.
You may kiss your husband. (End)

So they're both husbands. Now we know.
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my life is so much more rewarding now that you found this crucial bit of information.

:indeed:
 
Yurt said:
my life is so much more rewarding now that you found this crucial bit of information.

:indeed:
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Well, I'm sure you strive to be socially correct. For example, we now know it's proper to say, "How is your husband" and not "How is your wife".
 
apple0154 said:
I wonder what the ceremony is like. Usually the person officiating (Minister, Priest, etc) asks "who gives the bride to this man". Do they now ask "who gives the 'bottom' to this 'top'" assuming there is a correlation between female/bottom and man/top?
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I don't know how it will be rectified...maybe " who gives the suckee to this sucker"....but I don't think it will include a Priest, at least a Catholic one....
 
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