Male couple married in Virginia; authorities call incident a deceptive crime [video]
”We just went through the ceremony and at the end of the ceremony I pronounced them man and wife…. [The clerk of Circuit Court in Newport News called] and he says ‘Do you realize that that was two men? And I said, I won’t tell you what I said but I said ‘No, I certainly did not know that they were two men. If I had known that I wouldn’t have done it.'”
Marriage commissioner Al Coward who presided over the ceremony of Antonio Blount, 31, and Justin McCain, 18. McCain allegedly used the name “Justine” and wore female gendered clothing. A deisgn flaw of the Virginia Driver’s license near the gender field may have contributed to the marriage granting incident. The couple is said to have triggered suspicion when McCain returned to the court to file for a name change, “Penelope Skye Ariana Goldberry.” [video](WSET-TV)
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