Learning to Breathe - Well, folks, we have a rabbi...

Okay, she's really a cantor. Shalombaby84 has been calling around to find a jewish clergyperson who would consider performing a wedding ceremony for a) an interfaith couple who are b) lesbians. Guess which is a bigger issue? If you guessed (a), you are right. For one of the first times in my life, I'm being treated like everyone else, which actually delights me! Seriously, I've never been so happy being told "no" in my life. Of course, I grew up the product of a "mixed marriage" (meaning one parent was Catholic, the other Protestant). Apparently, many rabbis won't marry an interfaith couple on principle. I get that and I'm good with it.

So we were given the name of this cantor who also happens to be a practicing chiropractor, acupuncturist, and a Buddhist Jew. There is a whole realm of Jews who have taken to fusing their Judaism with some meditation stuff. They call themselves JuBu's. Anyway, our cantor sounds pretty cool - I kinda needed some Eastern influence. Of course, my friend Eric wrote this to me (he's a big flamer himself, hence the language): "A JuBu cantor/acupuncturist... jesusmaryandjoseph (or "oye, shlomy"), could you be more of a dyke?!" This made me laugh and laugh this afternoon.