It was a mega-emotional moment in San Francisco when Mayor Gavin Newsom married lesbian rights activists Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday. They took the honor of being the first gay couple in California to be legally married. Actually, they had already been married by Newsom once before four years ago when Newsom independently announced that San Francisco would issue marriage licenses to gay men and lesbians, but the courts eventually nullified that agreement.People are expected to line up at city halls across California on Tuesday, so expect to see this a lot more in the news in the coming days. And while some people would like to consider this a disaster on the same level as the Iowa floods, most of the rest of us look at it as a welcome relief from all the bad news and an opportunity for once to celebrate love and the triumph of the human spirit instead of the more violent and destructive side of nature and of humanity.
I continue to remember the inscription carved in the altar above the church I grew up in: "Love never faileth."
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