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Marriage process
Tom Brosz — (archived)

How about this: "marriage" is performed in a house of worship, and "civil union" is performed in a courthouse.

Don't know what's changed since then, but that's pretty much how I did it. Had to go to the town where the county seat was (didn't even know where it was until then), go to the courthouse, fill out forms for the marriage license, show the blood test*, the works. It was a while later before we got to the church. I think the minister had to sign the license too, which is probably the only place the two processes intersected.

If this was more about two people getting married and less about making political hay and/or smacking political opponents in the face, this probably wouldn't even be an issue.

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*Do they still do blood tests? Or is finding out if you carry a disease now a violation of our rights? Ironically, when I got married, AIDS didn't exist in America. One would think a blood test would be almost critical now, especially in a gay marriage.

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