I was up early and got a call from WJET TV 24 about doing an interview about marriage equality in California being live. They wanted to have it on the noon broadcast, so I scurried around to get ready.
The interview went fairly well. I am hoping that I didn't ramble too much. I am not much of a morning person. I would have been happy to put it off on someone else, but it is incredibly hard to find people willing to speak on such short notice, and most people aren't as out as I am.
The thing that disappointed me was the reporter said something about it could potentially create awkward situations for religious traditions that don't want to perform marriages. I had been very careful to point out to her during the interview that churches already have the right not to perform marriage ceremonies if there is something that doesn't agree. I used the example of the possibility of 2 orthodox Jews planning a wedding with bacon double cheese burgers being served at the reception, or if there was an inter faith marriage. The church or synagogue is perfectly free to refuse to perform the ceremony, but the couple can still have a 100% legally binding civil marriage. So too with same sex couples. (And really, how likely is it that most same sex couples are going to want to have their ceremony at an anti-gay church anyway??)
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