Not that long ago "being committed" here in Jawja meant involuntary incarceration in the insane asylum at Milledgeville. Or it implied you’d digested the complete works of Flannery O’Conner.
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| Duck & Bud Invoke Ancient Rite of Same-Sex Union |
My commitment to Duck was a different matter.
Duck & I became a couple eleven years ago, but we’d fallen in love before that.
In 1999, on the eve of Y2K, we marked new beginnings with formal commitment, not a marriage recognized by the United States government, or the state of Jawja, but for us, a passage uniting friends, families and our futures here in Sandtrap, in the home place of my ancestors.
Our minister told us some of the oldest Christian liturgies were for same-sex unions.
Ancient same-sex unions were news to us.
Duck was raised Methodist, I, Southern Baptist. We only got the church history they wanted us to hear.
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