I didn’t read the resolutions as “spurning” or “defying” or “rejecting” either. My read was also as a prayerful call to connectiveness and conversation. It is amazing how much understanding one can gain by talking from a place of one’s own truth and listening with one’s whole heart and soul and mind.

I recently went to a wedding reception for an Hispanic couple at a Latter Day Saints church with a group of friends who were Indian, Sri Lankan, African American, and Caucasian. The couples from India were asking questions about American wedding customs and sharing their own customs. It was a truely remarkable experience. It exemplified how people of all cultures and nationalities can get along simply by respecting each other’s customs and each other as the divine beings we all are.

Bridgitt