Please Come to Our Performances April 23-25!

UofL Theatre Arts Department requests the honor of your presence at

Something Old,
Something New,
Something Borrowed:

A Theatrical Documentary about Marriage

April 23, 24 and 25 at 8:00 pm

The Playhouse
3rd St. and Cardinal Blvd., Louisville, KY

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Can you get married over the phone or internet?

We were discussing this the other day in rehearsal. I just found this article that discusses the rising popularity of telephone marriages among Indian Muslims. Curious.

Vows?

Here's another request, in case anyone is reading this:

We'd like to collect as many different kinds of wedding vows as we can.

Have you ever heard wedding vows you found particularly moving or interesting or strange?

If so, please post them here as a comment, or email us!

Thanks.

84 years

Here's a little blurb on one of the world's longest marriages.

In Washington D.C. ...

...marriage equality went into effect today! Here is a link to a Washington Post about couples lining up at the courthouse to apply for licenses.

Bill Moyers Journal Tonight

... is about same sex marriage. There are a lot of good links on the website, too:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02262010/profile.html.

Here in Louisville, it airs at 10:00.

I'd be interested to get the reasoning behind this...

West Virginia gay marriage ban voted down in House.

My thoughts are as follows, not just with West Virginia, but with all states in similar situations...
-Gay marriage is currently illegal in West Virginia. Why make a law banning something that's already illegal and already strictly regulated by the government?
-There are two ways that gay marriage could become legal in states like West Virginia-
1) they pass a law/have a state supreme court decision allowing same sex couples to marry
2) there is some sort of federal action legalizing gay marriage, such as:
A) an amendment is passed legalizing gay marriage
B) a supreme court case finds that denying marriage status to same sex couples is unconstitutional
C) an amendment is passed repealing DOMA

Admittedly, the likelihood of any of these happening in the near future is, at best, highly questionable.

Only the third option has any possibility of meriting the need for a state amendment banning gay marriage, but even repealing DOMA doesn't lead to the logic "pro-gay marriage unless proven otherwise by constitutional amendment."

I'm trying to come up with a good simile for this, but I can't think of one that fits exactly.

I'm also fairly certain there's a gaping hole in my logic, but I clearly can't discern what that is right now either. I look forward to your thoughts.