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Name: Ken CarrollAge: 51Hometown: Providence, Rhode IslandOccupation: Vice president of The Rock Metropolitan Community Church and independent minister
Ken Carroll has been an ordained minister for more than 30 years, but he did not officiate his first wedding ceremony until after June 26, 2015 – the day gay marriage was legalized in the United States. Since the Supreme Court ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges, Carroll, who identifies as gay, has presided over five same-sex weddings, and despite the many misconceptions about same-sex relationships and marriages, he says the ceremonies really aren’t that different from ordinary weddings at all.
* If you videotaped a same-sex wedding and if the clothing and the hairstyles were not indicative of the gender of the people up there, you probably would not know that it’s a same-sex wedding.
* I think weddings are very customizable, you know, and it really just depends on what type of service the couple wants.
* So far, every wedding that I’ve done looks like weddings that I’ve been to. The only difference is that the couple is same-sex. Other than that, the emotions are the same, the commitments are the same, that feeling of love is the same. And that’s what it’s about.