Congratulations to Barry and his wife! (OT)

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

Neither the bride nor the groom was of mixed sex.

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From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent:         Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:44:52 -0500
Subject: Re: Congratulations to Barry and his wife! (OT)

  At 10:40 AM -0500 3/14/06, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
  >It is wonderful to celebrate such occasions, especially when they
involve
  >such wonderful diversity. I'm proud to say I have three splendid
three
 >sons-in-law: one Moslem, one Jew, one Methodist. Two of the weddings
 >were performed by
 >an Episcpal priest (we had to get a rabbi for one of them).

 there's always the local Unitarian minister, who I'm sure would be
 glad to preside and wouldn't particularly care if the "groom" and
 "bride" were of same rather than mixed sex (although the jurisdiction
 might--in CT they'd have to settle for a civil union ceremony).

 LH

 >
 >
  >In a message dated 3/13/06 7:54:10 PM, zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
writes:
 >
 >
 >>
 >> arnold, pleased to remember a wedding of two grad students at uiuc
 >> many years ago -- a saudi muslim and a lebanese catholic, with an
 >> american jew standing in as father of the bride; it took a while to
 >> find someone to officiate (a local lutheran minister was eventually
 >> recruited to perform this function)
 >>
 >
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