A former US senator, Harris Wofford, is set to remarried a man this week. 90 years old Wofford will marry a man, 50 years younger than him. "Marriage is about love, not gender," Wofford said.
The former Pennsylvania senator Harris Wofford, wrote a opinion letter to the New York Times in support of same sex marriages. He wrote that, "Too often, our society seeks to label people by pinning them on the wall straight, gay or in between. I don't categorize myself based on the gender of those I love. I had a half-century of marriage with a wonderful woman, and now am lucky for a second time to have found happiness."
Wofford explained his 20-year romance with, a 40-year old non-political designer, Matthew Charlton, that, "At age 70, I did not imagine that I would fall in love again and remarry. But the past 20 years have made my life a story of two great loves," he wrote.
"To some, our bond is entirely natural, to others it comes as a strange surprise, but most soon see the strength of our feelings and our devotion to each other. We have now been together for 15 years," Wofford wrote.
Wofford wrote that, "Seeking to change something as deeply ingrained in law and public opinion as the definition of marriage seemed impossible.”
"I was wrong, and should not have been so pessimistic.”
"I had seen firsthand - working and walking with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - that when the time was right, major change for civil rights came to pass in a single creative decade.”
"At age 90, I am lucky to be in an era where the Supreme Court has strengthened what President Obama calls 'the dignity of marriage' by recognizing that matrimony is not based on anyone's sexual nature, choices or dreams.”
"It is based on love."
"All this is on my mind as Matthew and I prepare for our marriage ceremony. On April 30, at ages 90 and 40, we will join hands, vowing to be bound together: to have and to hold, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until death do us part," he concluded.
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