I really sympathize with your feelings. There came a time when I deeply wanted to do some kind of public ceremony with my partner (who suggested I read your post), but I could not bring myself to do something that a same-sex couple could not do, or that I could not have done had I happened to partner with a woman. Nor did we want to take on all the gender-typed and closed-in connotations of "marriage." So we had a lovely "celebration of partnership," and explained to everyone present why we were not getting married. It was a wonderful day, and I'm glad we did it, but that was the only way I could have such a ceremony.
My feelings are enough "to each their own" that I haven't felt a desire to avoid friends' het-weddings. But the wedding of my evangelical Christian brother was quite an anthropological experience...
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Date: 2004-12-15 01:03 (UTC)My feelings are enough "to each their own" that I haven't felt a desire to avoid friends' het-weddings. But the wedding of my evangelical Christian brother was quite an anthropological experience...