Q: Are you calling this a wedding, or a civil union, or a commitment ceremony or something else?
A: One of the things that drives me nuts is that everyone in the press calls it a wedding, and they say we’re honeymooning in Lambeth. Of all the places I’d want to go on a honeymoon, Lambeth is the last place I’d think of.
It’s very clearly a civil ceremony, and that’s what we’re availing ourselves of.
Q: How is this different — or is it? — in your mind from the wedding ceremony you had those many years ago with your wife?
A: Probably the simplest thing I could say is that if the state of New Hampshire had passed a law for people of the same gender to get married, that’s what we’d be doing. But that’s simply not possible.
We’ve never called this a marriage because that’s not what this is. But in intent and depth of commitment, it’s every bit as serious as what we did in marriage.
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