Sensibility Suppression

Zion National Park, UT

 

Saturday morning Becca and Lee took turns showering and getting ready for the wedding. Becca was in the shower now. The room was a rental for anyone attending the wedding who needed to clean up from a night of camping. They were going to camp tonight, too, at the same campground the wedding was being held at. Zachariah had made the site available, so people could continue celebrating after the rehearsal was over.

Becca had never met Zachariah or his partner, though she was very curious about their story and how it had all played out. From single Mormon of a conservative LDS family, to openly gay married man.

She had asked Lee, and Lee didn’t know much of their story, either. Lee had said he felt personally responsible to be at the wedding, though, as a show of support since he was sure other members of his family would not show up. He didn’t know what Zachariah had planned for the wedding, but he was pretty sure it didn’t involve a woman.

The Church still considered gay men and women apostates, after all, and Becca, who was raised in a conservative Evangelical family that believed basically the same thing, understood and supported Lee completely on this. She’d had many friends growing up who were rejected by both family and church because of their sexuality.

This gathering was important for both of them.

The wedding was to be held at a large group site in the Watchman Campground, one of the two major campgrounds in Zion located across the Virgin River from the downtown area of Springdale and Cable Mountain Lodge. Becca was just glad that it wasn’t a Mormon wedding. There would be booze, and she wanted to drink. Booze was much better than the candy and ice cream of Mormon weddings. Becca washed the remaining conditioner from her hair, turned the water off, and flung away the leftover beads of water running down her body before stepping into a towel.