Bill and David got married! This was my first Gay Jewish Wedding and it seems like it was the first for many also. The synagogue they were married in, this was not only their first gay wedding, but the first wedding ever! It was even more significant because David’s Hebrew name is, well David and Bill’s is Johnathan. When the Rabbi announced that, the crowd gasped.

I wondered through the rest of the service what that would symbolize. I couldn’t remember any links between King David and St. John… they seemed to be too far apart time-wise and weren’t they different figures from different religions?

I asked Bill about this and he told me it was not St. John, but a different Johnathan - King David’s lover. I must have missed that lesson in Sunday School or I was kicked out of Sunday School way before they got to the good stuff.

After the ceremony, several of us packed up and cruised through Marin County for a long drive.