Ginsburg presides as gay U.S. ambassador renews vows
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Aug. 8 presided over the ceremony during which gay U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius and his husband renewed their wedding vows.
The private ceremony took place at Osius’ official residence in Hanoi. Osius told the Washington Blade that Ginsburg officiated the wedding of gay friends of his and his husband, Clayton Bond. The two men nevertheless did not know Ginsburg until she arrived in Vietnam earlier this month on a trip sponsored by the State Department’s U.S. Speaker Program where she met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court Truong Hoa Binh and other senior officials from the Southeast Asian country.
Ginsburg accepted the couple’s invitation to stay at their home in Hanoi while she was in the Vietnamese capital. Osius said a colleague suggested that he and Bond ask Ginsburg to renew their vows.
“We thought it might be meaningful not only to us, but to the LGBT community in Vietnam,” Osius told the Blade.
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