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Ten years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage, the upl whose same-sex weddg announcements were the first to appear The Tim reflect on what marriage means to them.

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Latt news, headl, analysis, photos and vios on Gay Marriage * gay marriage announcement *

Make that a gay May 23, 2004, The New York Tim prted 41 weddg announcements that clud 5 same-sex upl, the first legal gay marriag to appear the pag.

POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS

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”Ten years after they beme among the first gay upl the untry to legally marry, what’s most remarkable is how unremarkable is now, they said. “I have so much more mon ground wh my -workers who are parents and heterosexual than many of my gay iends who are not parents.

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Cohn on “Oprah” ( her pacy as a gay advice lumnist) that she realized her attractn to Ms. (Washgton did not allow gay marriage until 2010. Children of parents who intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr may now be blsed as fants and baptized The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats whout First Princy approval, Print Dall H.

Children of parents who intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr may be baptized, if the ctodial parents give permissn for the baptism and unrstand both the doctre that a baptized child will be tght and the venants he or she will be expected to make, said Print Oaks. Instead the “immoral nduct heterosexual and homosexual relatnship will be treated the same way, ” he said.

“I want anyone who is a member of the Church who is gay or lbian to know I believe you have a place the kgdom and I regnize that sometim may be difficult for you to see where you f the Lord’s Church, but you do.

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“There are many polil, legal, and social prsur for chang that would change the fn of marriage or -emphasize s importance, nfe genr, or homogenize the differenc between men and women that are sential to acplish God’s great Plan of Happs.

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