It's been a rough couple years for good old traditional Jesus marriage. You had the Supreme Court make DOMA go away last year, and then pretty much every state, even the super-conservative ones, have been all like "sure, get gay married, whatevs." Weirdly, the Republic has not yet collapsed, but the final straw probably just got laid atop America's coffin, or some equally overheated metaphor, because the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that
I want to see the horseshoe crab officiate! Does it communicate in morse code with its tail/stinger thingie? Or does it get up in its rear sets of legs and go all creepy Cthulhu on the wedding party?
Gee, we were married (in NY) by a county judge, but I never thought to ask him what, if any, religion he subscribed to. I am still waiting for the flak from that oversight to catch up to me.
Speaking as a card-carrying (literally, it's in my wallet) Universal Life Church minister -- I became ordained (or, okay, "ordained") so that I could officiate at the wedding of my ex-step-daughter, in Utah, last summer -- the judge was unfair in his comment. The ULC does not charge for simple ordination.
They do charge a few bucks if you want more than an email certificate -- I got the aforesaid wallet card and a rather decent How-To-Officiate-A-Wedding book and cd for about thirty bucks, as I recall. The book/cd was really pretty helpful, and the card has been good for at least ten bucks worth of laughs, so I say fair play. (I actually had a couple of people ask me after the ceremony how much I charged, and I had to tell them I lived in California).
I have a point, besides fairness to the ULC. I got the ULC ordination because Utah law required me to be a "minister" (or a judge). Now, Utah is fine with the ULC, and as it happened I managed to conduct a wedding without using the words "Jesus", "God", "the Creator", or any LDS equivalent (and this was a giant conglomeration of Saints), and everybody thought is was pretty good and official. But I had to be a "minister".
This Indiana ruling strikes directly at the notion that "marriage" must be a religious matter.
Not according to the *BBB; the only correct denomination is the puristic church they attend… each and every one of them.
*Breitbart Batshit Brigade™
41 years??? Someone get this couple some Wonkette totebags ASAP!
Snark off - that is awesome, congratulations!
I want to see the horseshoe crab officiate! Does it communicate in morse code with its tail/stinger thingie? Or does it get up in its rear sets of legs and go all creepy Cthulhu on the wedding party?
The poster is not accurate! None of the atheists I know are that hairy, and only a few of them are into wearing executioner's hoods.
Japanese anime character body pillow libel!
Gee, we were married (in NY) by a county judge, but I never thought to ask him what, if any, religion he subscribed to. I am still waiting for the flak from that oversight to catch up to me.
Can the judge be a Buddhist or an atheist, or is that still illegal?
You've got three years on us. We just had anniv. # 38.
Hoxha was a big believer in the WTF Church of the Paranoid Concrete Pillbox.
#NotAllAtheists
But yeah, we need to remember that people can be dicks for non-religious reasons too.
Pawnee? I hardly knew her!
Speaking as a card-carrying (literally, it's in my wallet) Universal Life Church minister -- I became ordained (or, okay, "ordained") so that I could officiate at the wedding of my ex-step-daughter, in Utah, last summer -- the judge was unfair in his comment. The ULC does not charge for simple ordination.
They do charge a few bucks if you want more than an email certificate -- I got the aforesaid wallet card and a rather decent How-To-Officiate-A-Wedding book and cd for about thirty bucks, as I recall. The book/cd was really pretty helpful, and the card has been good for at least ten bucks worth of laughs, so I say fair play. (I actually had a couple of people ask me after the ceremony how much I charged, and I had to tell them I lived in California).
I have a point, besides fairness to the ULC. I got the ULC ordination because Utah law required me to be a "minister" (or a judge). Now, Utah is fine with the ULC, and as it happened I managed to conduct a wedding without using the words "Jesus", "God", "the Creator", or any LDS equivalent (and this was a giant conglomeration of Saints), and everybody thought is was pretty good and official. But I had to be a "minister".
This Indiana ruling strikes directly at the notion that "marriage" must be a religious matter.
Yay.
Pictures, of GTFO!
Leave <i>my</i> marriage out of this!
I was ordained for free, I got my PhD from them for $100. That&#039;s $100 worth of funny right there!
I think an exception for Elvis-impersonating secular humanist officiants would have been sufficient.