Movie: A Union in Wait

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    This affecting documentary relates the struggle of two Baptist women, Susan Parker and Wendy Scott, to seal their domestic union in a chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University -- a crusade that generated national controversy in the late 1990s.

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    2001-05-05

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