Gay Wedding Vows Are Fired by Passion and Sincerity
The gay wedding vows reflect the couple’s love for each other and are an affirmation of the couple’s desire to live together and take care of each other. The vows may be delivered at a religious ceremony or a secular or commitment ceremony but they reflect the love and passion that the couple feels for each other.
There are several websites that offer samples of gay vows. The gays can use these as they are or modify them to make them more personal. However, a common feature of gay vows, like other vows, is the pledge to look after each other through good and bad times. This includes looking after each other through sickness and health and through richness and poverty.
Some gays don’t like the word marriage and prefer to use words like long lasting relationship or union. They also don’t prefer to use the words husband and wife and prefer the neutral spouse or partner.
Some gays even go to the extent of making a political statement as part of their wedding vows. They extol the same-sex wedding as their right, and pray that other gays also are allowed to enter into similar unions like theirs.
The gay vows are written with a great deal of effort. Mostly, they are written by the couple together, because they want to make a statement for the world to note. There is not only symbolism, but real hope in these vows of the world accepting them as legal unions.
Several officiants conducting the ceremony take note of the pledges and express the hope that the wishes of the gays come true in the near future. This is invariably appreciated by the audience, and is seen as an extension of a long felt need by the gay community.
The wedding vows end with an exchange of rings and the pronouncement of the union or partnership. The couple may choose to kiss each other. Often, the kiss is no more than a peck because gays are not used to kissing each other in public.
However, there is little doubt that the gay vows are fired by passion and sincerity. They not only reflect the couple’s hopes but that of the entire community.
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