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Contents:

• SHOULD I ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY FRIEND OR FAY MEMBER?
• WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI
• SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?
• HOST THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATN WH THE CREATIVE GAY WEDDG IAS

SHOULD I ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY FRIEND OR FAY MEMBER?

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WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI

As a lennial gay woman about to marry a woman, why was so hard for me to relate to this episo and accept ? Some of the jok that occurred throughout were outdated, and verge on homophobic, om today’s viewpot. Is OK to attend my iends' weddg if they are gay or lbian?

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SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?

While the episo was one of the first mastream portrayals of gay marriage on US televisn, was the send gay marriage on a s that season; the show Roseanne had aired an episo jt five weeks before which the tle character ordated a weddg for her -worker Leon and his lover Stt.

" However, the fact that Carol and San's ceremony was officiated by Candace Ggrich, a gay-rights activist and sister to nservative Congrsman Newt Ggrich did draw some media attentn, as the stg was perceived as a ment on the Republin Party's anti-gay rights stance and the "Contract wh Ameri" platform. A wrer wh the Associated Prs noted an article that week that the ceremony would not clu a kiss by the newlyweds, cludg the episo as part of an observed trend of portrayals of gay characters while skirtg ntroversy by avoidg or mimizg physil ntact. Dpe San and Carol gettg married this episo, gay marriage was not legalized New York until 2011.

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I scribe my perspective as “postgay. But my heart wants to e alongsi my gay iends and celebrate the joy they have found. For eight years, his blog, An Exercise the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy, chronicled his journey out of homosexualy.

I thk of my baptism when I nsir how Christians should rpond when they are ved to gay weddgs. A cisn not to attend a same-sex weddg tak place the same universe as gay-bashg, bullyg, and the long grd of ntempt toward gay men and women. Eve Th, thor of Gay and Catholic, blogs at Patheos.