We're just folks

I wrote about a gay mayor asked to officiate at a wedding where his own marriage is not legal. Here is the story of how it went. Though it was in a conservative Midwest area, most of the people, over the course of the weekend, began to see the gay couple as just folks. There was one Evangelical who either made snide remarks or avoided them. The ceremony, which was wonderful, included vows modified from the gay couple's own wedding. A surprise afterward: the Evangelical came up to the gay mayor after the ceremony and asked to use those same words to renew his own marriage vows. He wanted the mayor to conduct the renewal right then. One less bigot in the world.