“Here is an author who deeply understands ritual and symbolism.

If you understand what celebrancy is about, the first of September 2003 is a day that makes you put your face in your hands and weep. This was the day when a group of uneducated, insensitive, unintelligent, and rather vicious public servants, endowed with new and extraordinary government-sanctioned powers, set out, knowingly or unknowingly, to destroy the civil celebrant program.