Jerry Brown is getting married this coming Sunday. Twice, actually. He's doing both a civil ceremony and a church wedding. Different events, same day.
He's getting married (both times) in his native San Francisco, not in Oakland where he currently serves as mayor.
I'm curious to see what the California branch of the press corps makes of this. Even before the infotainmentization of our "press corps" that became pathological during the 1990s (pathological for healthy democracy, that is), reporters could hardly comprehend Jerry Brown. So they keep coming back to the "Governor Moonbeam" label to explain his mysterious ways.
What strange and bizarre thing is the inscrutable philosopher-mayor of Oakland doing now? Well, he's getting married to the woman he loves. He's having a church wedding in the same church in which his parents were married, and in which he was baptized.
Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross report in BART advisor linked to other Citigroup deals before joining firm San Francisco Chronicle 06/15/05; despite the article's title, it does contain the unrelated news about Brown's marriage):
It turns out that ex-seminarian Brown wanted to be married in the eyes of God -- not just in the eyes of the public.
"I consider it one wedding day," Brown said, noting that his church vows to longtime live-in partner Anne Gust provide a bit of nuptial insurance: "It means you can't get divorced."
The St. Agnes ceremony also brings plenty of sentiment with it.
The service will be performed by the Rev. John Bowman, who not only was in the Jesuit seminary at the same time as Brown, but who took his vows of "poverty, chastity and devotion" on the same day back in August 1958.
Now, the simplest explanation for this event is that, well, he's getting married to the woman he loves in pretty much the regular way most people do such things. It is an interesting move that he's doing a separate civil and religious ceremony on the same day. My guess is that this is a way for him to to have the wedding in both Oakland and San Francisco. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is presiding at the civil ceremony in Oakland.
Jerry Brown is getting married this coming Sunday. Twice, actually. He's doing both a civil ceremony and a church wedding. Different events, same day.
I'm curious to see what the California branch of the press corps mankes of this. Even before the infotainmentization of our "press corps" that became pathological during the 1990s (pathological for healthy democracy, that is), reporters could hardly comprehend Jerry Brown. So they keep coming back to the "Governor Moonbeam" label to explain his mysterious ways.
What strange and bizarre thing is the inscrutable philosopher-mayor of Oakland doing now? Well, he's getting married to the woman he loves. He's having a church wedding in the same church in which his parents were married, and in which he was baptized.
Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross report in BART advisor linked to other Citigroup deals before joining firm San Francisco Chronicle 06/15/05; despite the article's title, it does contain the unrelated news about Brown's marriage):
It turns out that ex-seminarian Brown wanted to be married in the eyes of God -- not just in the eyes of the public.
"I consider it one wedding day," Brown said, noting that his church vows to longtime live-in partner Anne Gust provide a bit of nuptial insurance: "It means you can't get divorced."
The St. Agnes ceremony also brings plenty of sentiment with it.
The service will be performed by the Rev. John Bowman, who not only was in the Jesuit seminary at the same time as Brown, but who took his vows of "poverty, chastity and devotion" on the same day back in August 1958.
Now, the simplest explanation for this event is that, well, he's getting married to the woman he loves in pretty much the regular way most people do such things. It is an interesting move that he's doing a separate civil and religious ceremony on the same day. My guess is that this is a way for him to to have the wedding in both Oakland and San Francisco. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is presiding at the civil ceremony in Oakland.
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