When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. When Harry Met Sally A Holy Union is a wedding ceremony, which is a spiritual joining of two persons regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. It is […]
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Lesbian Couple’s Wedding Ceremony During Pride Month
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato A Holy Union is a wedding ceremony, which is a spiritual joining of two persons regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. It is […]
Transpinay and Spanish Couple Renew Their Vows in Philippines
E is a Filipina transwoman dentist in Barcelona, Spain and G is a Spanish IT professional. They have been together for 5 years and met in an unexpected way. They had their first wedding in Barcelona in the home chapel of G’s father and which G’s father built by hand. Then they got legally married […]
Lesbian Couple Say Their Vows of Love
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? George Eliot A Holy Union is a […]
Same-Sex Wedding in the Philippines Will Melt Your Heart
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my […]
Gay Wedding Almost Cancelled By Storm
David and Ryan have been together for four years. They met on the 12th of March in 2015. They are officially celebrating their first anniversary this year, on the 18th of August. It has been a year since Open Table MCC (a church that conducts same-sex unions) has officiated David and Ryan’s wedding, and we […]
Our Love is Not Our Own
Our love has been and continues to be rejected, demonized and hidden away. There are those who stood up and fought for such love and some of them got killed fighting and speaking. While it seems that our love and relationships are very personal and domesticated, closeted in some situations, we must realize the tremendous […]
1971 “Invalid” Gay Marriage License Now Gets Legally Recognized in USA
2003 was the year when Massachusetts, United States, decided to recognize marriage equality. In 2015, it was the whole USA. But now, due to a strange case, the Social Security Administraton has recognized a marriage between two men that happened decades prior. Back in 1970, Richard John “Jack” Baker applied for a marriage license with […]
What Really Happens With the Holy Union Fee
The money that is received from the Holy Union is pooled together in the Church’s official bank account. No person or leader from the Church receives any Holy Union money, partially or as a whole by hand or by money transfer issued in any person’s name. The Union fee is sacred in the sense that […]
How LGBT+ Weddings Are Also an Act of Advocacy
I often tell couples that their decision to have a blessing with family and friends through a wedding ceremony is both fortunate and unfortunate.Unfortunate because it is still not legally recognized here and not yet socially accepted. It is fortunate because, even though the couple may have simply decided and planned it for themselves, whether […]