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- From: pentangl@spdcc.com (Scott Moir)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.slack
- Subject: Re: Interfaith marriages
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.233610.3190@spdcc.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 23:36:10 GMT
- References: <gevtwBO00WB3MZt3ZR@andrew.cmu.edu> <5745@tivoli.UUCP> <BxCs2K.2uG@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM>
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- In article <BxCs2K.2uG@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM> jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods) writes:
- >In <5745@tivoli.UUCP> regina@tivoli.UUCP (Regina Foiles) writes:
- >>My sister and her boyfriend are getting married in June. She's protestant and
- >>he's jewish. Neither a minister nor a rabi will marry them because neither
- >>one wants to convert to the others religion. My sister does want the wedding
- >>to be in a house of God. The only thing we can think of to solve this problem
- >>is a Chapel with a non-denominational Chaplain. I'm sure that this is not a
- >>unique situation. Can someone who has gone through this before, or knows
- >>someone who has, give me some advice on how to help my sister and future
- >>brother-in-law?
- >>
- >The obvious answer is to have a SubGenius minister perform the ceremony.
- >Not only are SubGenius ministers performers of equal-opportunity[*] marriages,
- >but the term of marriage can be as short as you like, minutes or even SECONDS
- >if necessary. Additionally, the required love offering will just about
- >GUARANTEE the newly-weds a honeymoon suite on the pleasure saucers when the
- >X-ists come (again and again!) in 1998 to foreclose the mortgage "Bob" took
- >out on the planet Earth. You just CAN'T get a better deal than that.
- >
- >[*] Except by special request.
-
- Yah, and there's also Unitarian faiths. I wonder if I could become a
- Subgenii Minister under the Unitarian faith. Hell, if Laurie cabot
- the witch can be ordained and perform Marriages for the goddess,
- WHY CAN'T I do marriage contracts under "BoB"????
-
- Hmph.
-
- ...d
- (P.s. To the brother dude...hey, tell them to look up a Unitarian Universalist
- Preacher. All you have to do is believe in God to go to the churches, don't
- matter what denomination, faith, etc.)
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