Marina Gomberg: 'When El and I had our commitment ceremony in 2009, four years before same-sex marriage would became legal in Utah, we wondered how inviting our LDS friends and family felt.'
Marina Gomberg.I was sleepy when I saw the news, and had to rub my eyes to make sure I was neither dreaming nor reading it wrong., a bipartisan piece of federal legislation that would ensure protections for marriages, including between those in same-sex and interracial couples.It’s not that the church is the first or only religious organization to see the act as a powerful balance between individual rights and religious liberties.
When El and I had our commitment ceremony in 2009, four years before same-sex marriage would became legal in Utah, we wondered how inviting our LDS friends and family felt to them. I asked them their thoughts on this week’s announcement in anticipation of writing this column, and my heart pounded to feel the remorse some expressed for the chasm we’ve had to bridge over time.
Yet, instead of sitting on the sidelines and waiting to see if the some landmark Supreme Court cases — Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriages, and/or Obergefell v. Hodges, which made same-sex marriage legal coast-to-coast — are under attack after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Latter-day Saint leadership tapped the metaphorical mic and essentially said, “As long as we may continue to define religious marriage within our own faiths, let the legal vows floweth.
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