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 ::: Troy Perry conducted the first same-sex wedding in California in the late 1960's.  Today I watched a review of the documentary where he was interviewed at the time, with footage of such a ceremony and interview with Perry at the time, on Alan Whicker's retrosepctive of ""Whicker's World"", which was broadcast in April this year.  Weddings are part-and-parcel of Christian marriage, and marriage is not confined to civil and common-law marriages, but includes religious forms of marriage (whether recognised by the state or not).   "