On the bright side (although at the risk of sounding churlish, I can hardly consider the loss of Jesse Helms a downer), this report the Sacramento Bee, via Michael Petrelis:
Jeff Barr and William Wes Wilkinson, two cowboys from Elverta who were the first male couple married in Woodland on Monday.
"We met at a Gay Rodeo Association barn dance eight years ago," said Wilkinson, 43. "We're both officers of the association. … I proposed to him and he immediately proposed to me, and we accepted at the same time while we were driving down the road in our truck."
The couple have 5 acres with three horses, three calves, nine chickens and two dogs. "That seems to be our family," Wilkinson said.
But Barr's parents, Walter and Louise Barr of Moraga, were present to witness the ceremony.
"We have to do that," Walter Barr said of supporting their son . .
Andrew Sullivan called it "Brokeback Mountain's Alternate Ending" -- from a comment at Petrelis' post.
Update: Scott Lemieux has some cogent comments that relate to this post and the next about Obama's stance on same-sex marriage and the effects of its being legal now in two states (soon to be three, if New Jersey goes the route everyone expects).
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