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NYT Op-Ed Promotes Boycotting Heterosexual Weddings This Summer

 

Going to any wedding this summer? Rich Benjamin isn't, at least if they are between a man and a woman:

I’m boycotting all heterosexual weddings.

... I call on all gay people to join my boycott of straight weddings this summer, regardless of where their straight loved ones stand. Yes, our boycott may bruise some feelings. But then again, our inability to participate in this institution is hurtful and bruising, too.

In recent years, many straight people have admirably pledged not to get married until gay people have the right to do so nationwide. I can’t ask friends like Zach to cancel their weddings, but I expect them to at least understand why I won’t attend. Straight friends and family need to accept their wedding invitations as collateral damage to exclusionary marriage laws. They should feel the consequences of this discrimination as sharply as we do.

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