The Today Show's "Modern Wedding" That Isn't Really

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The Today Show is hosting a contest,Today's Wedding: Modern Love! "TODAY is throwing a modern day wedding! Whether your love blossomed over the Internet or you met the old-fashioned way, we want to hear from you!" touts its Facebook entry page. It's a seemingly sweet idea- you and your significant other can enter to win a wedding on the Today Show and you get a free honeymoon!

Awesome!

Right?

Well, sure, if you're heterosexual.

Apparently "modern love" still excludes the millions of gay and lesbian couples out there.

According to fine print, winners must be heterosexual.


GLAAD contacted the network last week to find out why its application listed only "bride" and "groom" as options for applicants since the Today Show welcomed same-sex couples to apply to its "Hometown Wedding Contest" in years past. Good As You blog alerted us to the application problem.

NBC sent GLAAD this statement regarding the 2010 Modern Day Wedding Contest:

"For the TODAY show wedding, the couple must be able to be legally married in New York, which is where the wedding will take place."

This is not a valid argument since New York State legally recognizes same-sex marriages licensed in other states. Same-sex couples can now legally obtain marriage licenses in Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Washington D.C. NBC is mistakenly equating the marriage license with the wedding celebration. Same-sex weddings are entirely legal in New York State. As long as the marriage license is conferred upon the same-sex couple by another state, New York State recognizes the marriage as a fully valid and legal one. NBC's exclusion of same-sex couples from its contest is not motivated by the law, but bias against these couples.

- GLAAD

Sounds REEEEAALLL "modern" to me, you know, just excluding millions of couples across the nation. Thanks for the LOL, NBC. Coulda sworn we were talking about The Today Show, not SNL here.

GLAAD goes on not only to make the obvious point that producers could very easily work with the winning couple to assure that they obtained legal rights in their own state but more importantly that the contest isn't to win the legality of a marriage, it is to win the celebration of one...

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