Oh Wise and Worldy Ledgies

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by carrie721

you are completely misrepresenting and misunderstanding my stance.

i am not under the impression that they are all religious figures.

and no ****, WHERE the couple gets married has no bearing on its legality.

and why is it ridiculous? there are legal hoops you have to jump through to get married in a church anyway - blood tests and, yes, trips to the courthouse. maybe you should look into that since you're getting married soon.

am i being clear enough now?

No I GET what you are saying. an officiant, religious or no, comes into conflict by marrying someone in a church because of the seperation of church and state. Where you are missing the point is that it isnt a conflict according to current (or "modern") definitions. The state would neither be funding, or endorsing marriage by allowing its officiant to perform the ceremony (the officiant is getting paid after all)...and the church is neither endorsing the state institution by something as nutty as, say, having a religious wedding in a courthouse.

I'm getting married at a big house downtown by Lake Lucerne...By a longtime friend who happens to be an officiant, and a Christian, but he's not a minster. Go figure.