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Merrilyn Williams

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The Basic Tips

If you want to have an affair to remember, the most important thing to do, besides using your imagination and creativity, is to keep all of that wedding stuff you're accumulating organised.
Remember that no event, especially a wedding, will ever be totally perfect no matter how much you try. There will always be little things that will not go your way, but if you stay organised, both of you will learn quickly that it goes a long way in helping things run smoothly.

• Being Organised
• Telling The Family
• Buying Rings
• Writing Vows

 

GAY MARRIAGE: The Arguments & The Motives

A personal essay in hypertext by Scott Bidstrup

About The Author: Scott Bidstrup is a free-lance writer who has been active in political issues and in the gay rights movement, specializing in youth and marriage rights issues, since coming out as a gay man in 1994. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Brigham Young University (1971) and is a retired microwave communications and satellite earth station transmission engineer, born in the United States, but currently living (in exile) in Costa Rica.

"We cannot accept the view that Amendment 2's prohibition on specific legal protections does no more than deprive homosexuals of special rights. To the contrary, the amendment imposes a special disability on those persons alone. Homosexuals are forbidden the safeguards that others enjoy or may seek without constraint" -Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court in the decision overturning Colorado's Amendment 2 referendum

His essays on his web site, including this essay, have been frequently reprinted in magazines and in book form in essay anthologies, and this particular essay, the most widely reprinted, is often used in formal logic and critical thinking classes, both at high-school and college level, as a study text. The web site which the author maintains (of which this essay is a part) is one of the oldest and most popular personal web sites on the Internet. It "went live" in early 1995, and over the years since it has become quite popular among gay youth and their parents, as well as intellectual and political readers of the web; the site currently gets about 150,000 page-reads per month in total.

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