11.   And when Reed remarried, Butchart performed the ceremony.

12.   As to the local angle, the ceremony was performed by Monsignor John Fleming, rector of the Pontifical Irish College in Rome.

13.   Aside from a few local justices of the peace who disagreed with the legislation on religious grounds, town employees have complied and regularly perform civil ceremonies.

14.   A call to discipline the minister who performed the ceremony failed.

15.   Abele is one of a growing number of United Church of Christ ministers who have performed commitment ceremonies for gay couples.

16.   According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, a number of sects perform commitment ceremonies.

17.   Although both Conservative and Reform rabbis perform conversion ceremonies, only Reform rabbis generally are willing to perform interfaith weddings.

18.   But Menendez did not want Weisberg to perform the ceremony.

19.   But the Rev. Troy Perry, the Universal Federation of Metropolitan Community Churches minister who performed the ceremony, told the couples to take heart.

20.   Carol Westing, the Putney justice of the peace who performed their ceremony, said other couples have told her the same thing.