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While in Vietnam, Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiates over renewal vows of gay US ambassador
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presided over a renewal of wedding vows by the US ambassador to Vietnam and his husband last weekend.
Ginsburg was on a trip to Vietnam sponsored by a program of the US State Department and met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court Truong Hoa Binh, among others.
She was invited to stay at the official residence in Hanoi of Ambassador Ted Osius and husband Clayton Bond. Osius said it was a colleague’s idea to ask Ginsburg to officiate a renewal of vows for the couple who were first married in 2006 in Canada.
‘We thought it might be meaningful not only to us, but to the LGBT community in Vietnam,’ Osius told the Washington Blade.
‘She is one of the most extraordinary people we have ever met,’ he added.
The ceremony took place on 8 August with several young Vietnamese LGBTI rights advocates in attendance.
Ginsburg has presided over same-sex marriage ceremonies in the past, the first US Supreme Court justice to ever do so.
She was part of a landmark 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court on 26 June that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. Two years earlier, she had also voted to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and to allow same-sex marriages to resume in California.
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