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Four years in the making!
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To get a marriage license in Benton County, you have to go to the basement of the 118-year-old courthouse in Corvallis http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/county/cpbentonhome.html. The person we talked to was sitting at the desk labeled "dog licenses," which amused me. She ushered us into a small room filled with filing cabinets to a computer on a rickety table in a corner. The stone walls of the room were alarmingly crumbly-looking. It was very clear that we're in the basement of a 118-year-old building (in other words: very cool).
It was a simple process that took about 20 minutes, unremarkable except for one thing; for both the Groom and the Bride section, you can choose a gender. I gave it a little test before submitting, and you can, in fact, have both sections read MALE or both read FEMALE. I'm sure, since gay marriage isn't legal in Oregon, that if someone actually did fill out the form that way, it wouldn't be processed. But the point is, the choice is there. At some point when Benton County switched from paper to computer, someone put those little GENDER boxes in the menu. I've worked a little bit with the database here at work, and the interface we use to enter call logs, and this isn't the sort of thing that happens "by accident".
To me, it reads as something very carefully deliberate. If the only legal marriage is supposed to be "Male Groom" and "Female Bride," than no gender choice should be necessary. I like to think of it as Benton County being poised and ready for the rest of the state/nation to get it's head out of its collective ass and let gay civil unions be. When that day finally comes, (I'm certain it's a just a matter of time), I know one place where there will be less of a transition needed. At least as far as the paperwork goes.
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EDIT:: Thank you to everyone who put money towards my wedding dress by purchasing parts of my collection! Everything has been sold, and I know they went to good homes. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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May. 20th, 2007 @ 09:21 am
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I had my second wedding disaster dream last night. Neither one have overly stressful, just exasperating in an "shouldn't we have done this two months ago?" kind of way. I spend most of the time stopping the ceremony so I can go straighten chairs or something.
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