Equality supporting marriage celebrant Kirileigh Lynch
One very cool marriage celebrant wrote to me about the recent post Wedding Industry Finds Voice. Says Kirileigh Lynch of Sydney, Australia:
“I find being a marriage celebrant in Australia (where thanks to Phillip Ruddock we are required by law to state at each ceremony that marriage is the union of a man and a women) and a supporter of gay rights to be a tough double act. I hate that I have friends I cannot legally marry. I hate that for no good reason I am forced into discriminating against good, loving people.”
“I always ask the straight couples I marry if they would like me to include a small addition after the legal definition of marriage so that it reads: “Our law defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman, voluntarily entered into for life, to the exclusion of all others. (name of the couple) truly hope that one day this human right will be afforded to all loving couples.”
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