The United Methodist Church has decided not to bring charges against 68 ministers who blessed a lesbian wedding to protest their church's ban on gay marriages.
For a few days, the travails of modern life – the economy, the silly royal wedding, the protesting students, Sepp Blatter – are forced to take second place to that great gift of nature, the snow.
"A very small group of men set policy in China, and they don't see women's rights as a mainstream issue," said Hui Jin, 27, a postgraduate veterinary student who helped organize the wedding dress protest.
When she saw how Mexicans were treated in America, she was quick to support the Latino cause; earlier this year, she ran through the streets of Washington in a wedding dress, protesting against domestic violence.
Since 2012, they've "occupied" men's public toilets to protest unfairly sized female restrooms; donned faux blood-spattered wedding dresses to protest domestic violence; and shaved their heads to protest education inequality. .
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It was to be a protest wedding; a wedding just because they could; a farce, a really good party, and best of all – given their genders – legal.
A protest wedding is a great idea.
Friends from New York state (where same-sex marriage is already legal) suggested that we have a protest wedding.
Women have bravely dressed up in bloodied wedding gowns to protest against domestic violence, shaving off their hair, silently voicing their anger against the discrimination in university admission standards, or filing lawsuits against discriminatory employers.
