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May 26, 2002
Gay Couple Ignores Obstacles for Union
BY MARGARET REIST / Lincoln Journal Star
http://www.journalstar.com/local?story_id=6916&date=20020526&past=TRUE

"Where there is love, there are great miracles." -- Willa Cather

Here, on a sunny Saturday evening in the heart of Cather's Plains [at
the altar of St. Mark's-on-the-Campus Episcopal Church], far from the
concrete and steel of their New York City home Jay Yost and Wade Leak
said "I will."

<BIG SNIP>

And two other old friends, the Rev. Jay Vetter and his wife, Maureen,
agreed to perform the commitment ceremony and a worship service
preceding it. <SNIP>

"I lament today that I cannot be a very good pastor to you," Vetter
said to Yost during the service. "I utter a loud cry of sorrow that
the United Methodist Church, which has nurtured my faith and ordained
me to ministry, will not allow me to conduct a service celebrating
your homosexual union."

After his lament, Vetter retreated from the chapel and passed his
stole to Maureen, the daughter of a Methodist minister, the wife of a
Methodist minister, the mother of a Methodist minister. But not one
herself. <SNIP>

And so, on a sunny Saturday evening, Maureen Vetter donned the
rainbow-colored stole she had made for her husband. The two grooms,
on the arms of their parents, walked down the narrow church aisle to
be united before God, surrounded by friends and family.

A miracle in the best tradition of Willa Cather.


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