Thomas Geyer/Quad-City Times
A photo from the Quad-City Times shows the wedding rings of Vivian Boyack and Alice ‘Nonie’ Dubes.
In light of all the alarming, ludicrous things said recently in Billings about the very basic phenomenon of people falling in love, we direct your attention to this lovely little story from the Quad-City Times, a sister paper of the Billings Gazette.
It tells of two women, Vivian Boyack, 91, and Alice “Nonie” Dubes, 90, who had been together for 72 years before finally deciding to get married, which they did last weekend in Davenport, Iowa. Can you imagine standing face to face with these two — or, rather, sitting face to face, since they are both in wheelchairs — and telling them you couldn’t bake them a cake or take their picture because they are both abominable sinners?
A lot of people believe that same-sex marriage will be legal everywhere in time because the vast majority of young people not only find it acceptable, but don’t quite understand what the fuss is all about. I believe that, too, but I believe that stories like this stand a fair chance of changing the minds of some older people as well.
How absurd that two sweet old women like Vivian and Nonie should have to wait 72 years before publicly memorializing what was clearly a committed relationship. We should all be so faithful, and then so courageous.
