re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why “religion” should never be an exemption to a mask mandate.

Local mom gets ordained, signs more than hundred mask exemption forms (Dayton, OH Daily News, October 8, 2021)

She got credentials through Universal Life Church (the on-line clergy mill).

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Full disclosure: I am ordained with ULC, but let me explain why.

A friend of mine from Canada decided, like I did, to move to the U.S. after meeting a guy down here and getting engaged. She is Pentecostal, he is Mennonite. The wedding was going to be held in the grooms Mennonite community. However, they could not find any officiants willing to marry them unless the bride converted to be a Mennonite.

Now I know you might ask: “Why not just do it at a courthouse and sort out the rest later?”

Well, the groom was worried his Mennonite friends and family would throw a shit fit if he and his bride eschewed the traditional church wedding. The bride, being religious herself, also wanted a traditional ceremony and she was getting to the point of being extremely stressed out that she couldn’t find anyone to marry them.

So eventually I said “fuck this mess”, got myself ordained and officiated my friends wedding myself. I have no regrets about doing so.