WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is getting invited to be a part of a lot of weddings lately.
Wedding officiants from Washington to as far away as Australia say couples, both gay and straight, are asking them to incorporate quotations from the justice’s June 26 opinion legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide as part of their wedding ceremonies.
Kennedy’s words aren’t the first to make it into a marriage ceremony. Excerpts from a 2003 Massachusetts court decision that made the state the first to legalize gay marriage have also been used in the past. But Kennedy’s opinion seems to have won an even wider audience.
Couples said they want both to acknowledge the historic decision and to use language they describe as “beautiful,” ”eloquent” and “powerful.”