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Police are investigating a recent gay wedding celebration in a hotel in Ubud, Bali, although the couple has already left the island for the US.

'€œThey left Bali on Saturday. The men are a US citizen and an Indonesian citizen who were married in the US. They came here to celebrate their wedding,'€ Bali Police chief Insp. Gen. Sugeng Prayitno said on Thursday.

He said the wedding celebration must have been organized well before Saturday. Photos of the couple'€™s traditional Balinese wedding ceremony have been circulating in the media. In one of the photos, the couple, dressed in pink beskap (traditional suits) and blue sarongs, are seen standing in front of a Hindu priest who is believed to have led the ceremony.

Your comments:

And by chance if the local groom was the son or brother of a prominent politician, what would the cops do then?

BH

I hope the happy couple has had a safe journey home and that their wonderful beautiful exchange of vows and love for one another wasn'€™t tainted by the foul homophobia of Indonesia.

May you both enjoy a happy life together with your foreign friends in Bali.

Fat Brown

My only comment on this matter is: I hope they are happy.

OB

What makes this all funny and unfortunate, while causing someone to ask about the force behind the investigation, is the following. There is a gay (male) couple that owns a small hotel on Bali. It is known openly that they are gay.

The hotel they own is a clothing optional property for males and females. They advertise this internationally. They get no problems from anyone. Their hotel is also not the only clothing optional property in Bali.

I am wondering in which hotel the ceremony took place?

Simaging

The couple were already married so the ceremony was likely just symbolic. No one was hurt, the people weren'€™t residents and the police just missed an opportunity to extort someone. Really this seems like an issue between the priest involved and the other ones on the island.

I really think that this would be a fantastic business opportunity that is being ruined.

Nate

Can anyone tell me what it is the priest has done to destroy anything?

He has done nothing. Now if you can list the things he has destroyed I am willing to debate it. I will ask you. What has the priest, by carrying out a blessing, destroyed?

Nothing at all. Don'€™t blame the priest. The mistake (if that'€™s what it is) was to involve religion in this wedding.

Terry McAsee

The problem is that this gay wedding was held in Bali territory. That'€™s why the head of the Hindu priest organization wants to purify the venue.

By the way, what'€™s the issue here? This should just be considered as an event for these two guys. Who are we to mess in it? If we do not want to open up to the real world, we may end up keeping on living without it.

Jekk

Congrats. Since it was a private ceremony in a hotel it is nobody'€™s business. The police just missed an opportunity to get money from it. They don'€™t care about '€œsociety'€.

Keris P.