Several years ago, after attending the wedding of a distant acquaintance and listening to the pastor's sermon about the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman, Sarah and I made a decision that we wouldn't attend any weddings unless 1) it was the wedding of a very close relative, or 2) it was the wedding of a couple who saw our marriage with the same seriousness and as having the same weight as any official heterosexual marriage. The second scenario involved a lot of imagining how certain people would behave if they attended a same-sex wedding ceremony. It's not as simple as it sounds to determine whether or not someone actually would view such a non-traditional wedding as legitimate.
Sure, we know a fair amount of individuals who claim they would take a same-sex wedding seriously, but most of these people, in their desperation to show just how okay they are with those types of events, end up making it clear that to them it's "cute" or some type of interesting curiosity. I believe a lot of people would like to attend a same-sex marriage ceremony just to say they did, just to prove to themselves, their gay acquaintances, and their straight friends how accepting and tolerant they are. In these situations, I knew the people (both gay and straight) who regarded same-sex ceremonies as cute and amusing were not taking the whole matter as seriously as they would the opposite-sex marriage. These same people would refer to opposite-sex ceremonies with solemn reverence rather than
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