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« on: Jul 13^th, 2008, 2:12am »

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http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/10/blessed-event/

Clergy members who competed on 'Amazing Race' are finally wed
By Tom Kisken (Contact)
Thursday, July 10, 2008

A year ago, Pat Hendrickson and Kate Lewis were coaxing a donkey along a path in Ireland as part of "The Amazing Race" reality television series.

On Wednesday, a brand of reality they described as similarly surreal brought the Episcopalian women into the Ventura County Clerk and Recorder's Office. There, in front of 20 friends and family members, including Hendrickson's two tie-wearing grandsons, they were married.

"Who would ever have thought we would do that?" Hendrickson said of the CBS-TV show that brought the women to Ireland and Amsterdam for adventures that included riding a high-wire bicycle over a ravine. "And a year ago, who would ever have thought we would do this?"

The women have been together 11 years and were joined in a blessing ceremony at Saint Augustine by the Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica in 2004. Both are clergy in a denomination that like many others struggles with gay marriage. Lewis is a priest, and Hendrickson, formerly director of youth and family ministries at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church in Thousand Oaks, is an ordained deacon.

They own a home in Thousand Oaks but are in the process of moving to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where Lewis is vicar at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Kailua. They came home to claim the civil right of marriage that was given to gay and lesbian couples through a California Supreme Court ruling in May.

Holding bouquets of sunset-colored roses, they showed up at the same facility where they tried to marry three times before as part of an annual quest on Valentine's Day.

"This is not Valentine's Day," Lewis said as she approached the front counter Wednesday. "They're going to say yes.'"

Friends and family aimed camcorders, cameras and cell phones at the couple as they stood under an arbor decorated with plastic calla lilies. They exchanged vows and worked gold rings onto each other's fingers under the watch of a robed county employee who pronounced them "married under the laws of the state of California."

They sealed the marriage with a kiss and adjourned with the rest of the party to a Mexican restaurant for champagne and sparkling cider.

For the two women, the civil ceremony was motivated by some of the same objectives that were part of "The Amazing Race," where they lasted only two episodes but are still sometimes recognized. They wanted to show that people who lead a life that seems unique lesbian "married ministers," as they were described on the show aren't all that different from anyone else.

"It's our opportunity to normalize it," Lewis said.

Stressing the difference between religious weddings and civil ceremonies legalized in California, they said this was about claiming rights.

"I'm OK with you not accepting who I am," Hendrickson said. "But don't tell me that I have to be something else to have my rights in this country."

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