I loved this... from an article in today's (Tues October 7 2007) PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER about how a couple who was wed by a minister in the Universal Life Church (which does some online ordinations) had their marriage declared invalid because of the online ordination:
...Adam Johnston...had been ordained online just so he could perform the Aug. 24, 2006, ceremony. And the judge ruled that as an online officiant, Johnston did not have "a regularly established church or congregation" as the law requires. Therefore, he was unauthorized and the marriage invalid.
It was the first time that legal argument had been made in Pennsylvania, according to David Cleaver, solicitor for the statewide Association of Registers of Wills and Clerks of Orphans Court...
...There is growing discontent among those who think online ordinations make a mockery of marriage. "The problem with Internet ordinations," Cleaver says, "is that you don't know who you are ordaining. You open the door for convicted pedophiles, rapists, even your garbage collector, to officiate at weddings."
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Of course, nothing against garbage collectors, mind you...
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