Every day, I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world because I'm married to him. Thanks, Vermont lawmakers!
Our wedding day was an emotional moment, to say the least, but there are other happy emotional days that have nothing directly to do with Jeff and me.
Every time a state passes a same sex marriage law, and the first couples get married, I confess to shedding a few happy tears.
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| Steven Bridges and Michael Snell get married in Portland, Maine Saturday. Congratulations to the happy couple! |
So it was with Maine today. During the November elections, Maine residents voted in favor of same sex marriage. The first of those weddings happened today.
That very first Maine couple to get hitched was Michael Snell and Steven Bridges, wbo put rings on each others' fingers early Saturday morning. . The Portland Press Herald reports the happy couple has been together nine years and had long hoped to get married.
They look like a great couple and of course I wish them, and all those couples getting married in Maine, long happy marriages.
I know people have religious and other reasons to oppose gay marriage, and they have the right to not like it. But, really, from my perspective, it's so hard not to have your heart melt when you watch those couples committing their lives to each other.
One of the most touching things I've seen when same sex marriage is legalized in various states is the crowds that turn out to wish the newly married couples well.
So it was in Maine. A large crowd gathered in front of the Portland, Maine City Hall. Maybe the sweetest thing I saw out of this crowd was when someone playing a terribly off-key trumpet led the hundreds of people singing, shouting really, the song "All You Need Is Love."
Indeed. The video made me get teary eyed again. Maybe you will, too, when you watch it. It's so sweet.:
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