Going from the chapel

In the past week and a half, WWP has attended one wedding (plus reception) and one wedding banquet – events both of the opposite-sex variety that seems so rare of late.

The first occasion was the nuptials of a young couple, involving a member of WWP’s congregation. The bride’s family being from another continent, the event was modestly sized, but it embraced all the familiar and comforting trappings of a Methodist wedding. It wasn’t until during the ensuing reception that WWP realized: a) this was the first opposite-sex marriage he’d attended in a while; and b) he was but one of only five or six persons in the room who was unmarried.

Just eight days later, in the very same room as the earlier reception, there occurred the second celebration, a union of two older persons [old enough, at least, to each have children WWP’s age] in a somewhat unexpected and joyous later-in-life opportunity. The wedding banquet drew some 300 church friends for the post-Sunday worship festivities. [Although, being descendants of one of Protestantism’s biggest sourpusses, and with little more than Hawaiian Punch on hand, the Methodists could get only so festive.]

At WWP’s table were a retired clergyman and his wife, gay-supportive older adults who themselves are enjoying a second marriage and who happily joined a table of six single gay men. Surveying the conviviality of the table, the joyousness of the room and the spectacle of the wedding party, WWP, perhaps not alone, then realized: a) this was the last opposite-sex marriage he’d want to attend for a while; and b) he was one of exactly five or six persons in the room who likely will never be married.

As WWP has been saying all along [often to the P.C.-sealed and unreceptive ears of those who should know better], timing is everything.

Comments

[Chuck Currie]

By "P.C.-sealed and unreceptive ears" I assume you mean the leadership of Basic Rights Oregon and other gay rights advocates for asked the county commission to move forward on this issue.....

[Worldwide Pablo]

No, actually not -- although there's a pretty good argument to be made that they are culpable of such offense.

It's interesting you should think that was WWP's target. Keep guessing.