Interview: Newlyweds Invite Same-Sex Couples to Do First Dance at Their Wedding

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The first dance at a wedding is traditionally reserved for the bride and groom to cut a rug as a married couple for the first time. At one Indianapolis wedding, however, it became a personal -- and political -- act of kindness.

Joe Ball and Meg Liffick, the couple being wed, decided that in lieu of taking the first dance themselves, they would invite their friends who were in same-sex relationships -- and as of yet not able to marry legally in the state of Indiana -- to take the floor first. John Green , a best-selling youth fiction author and friend who was also at the wedding, took a picture of the couples dancing and posted them to his popular Tumblr account. He wrote along with it, "This was a large and very diverse wedding in a state that doesn't even recognize same-sex civil unions, let alone marriage. And yet the ovation these people received while dancing was like nothing I've ever heard at any wedding... If there were dry eyes, I didn't see any." The Tumblr post received