Marriage being a social construct and civil contract, and religion having had a stranglehold on society and civil law for centuries before the Enlightenment, it is no wonder that they think they own it. Just like everything else, more territorial pissing. I am tired of our mops smelling like urine.
When modern conservatives say "history," they mean something like "Barton's interpretation of puritan colonial life from 1650s to 1770s", not actual history.
Christians are so unoriginal and uncreative it’s laughable. Always stealing tradition from others and distorting it until it’s unrecognizable. Ask the Pagans🎄
They’re Christians. They claim to have invented the universe, the world, all plants and animals, humans, civilisation, culture, “good” and “evil”, languages, mathematics, clothes, sailing, the Roman Empire, your neighbour Bob’s shoes, your cousin Annabelle’s Toyota Hilux, your cat’s flea collar…
And don’t forget David Graf claimed holidays and calendar months in the name of Christianity, as well.
Hate to burst his bubble (though someone should, as that bubble is preventing his brain from getting oxygen) but every day of the week i named after a pagan god and every moth is either named after a pagan god or a Roman emperor.
And how many pagan holidays have been stolen by Christians?
Agree ~ a monopoly over a civic construct/institution?
Also for years- you had to pay to "anual"(divorce)a marriage.The far right scream freedoms,yet trample the rights of others.What is moral about this?□Thanks
So you cavalierly dismiss his marriage because it doesn't fit your personal sweeping generalization of being a "barbaric practice?" Makes you a bit of a bigot. Marriage is no longer defined as "one man, one woman" (though the xtian reichwingers in this country are working hard to bring back the bad old days). Marriage equality is a reality in 38 countries as of last year.
Still going to go with that generalization of yours?
You keep screaming about legal contracts. You do know contracts are usually not considered to be bad things, right? Unless someone is dumb enough to enter into a contract with anyone named Trump.
An inconvenient fact: The divorce rate among Christians is higher than for atheists and agnostics. I think the urge to get members of the clergy to be the only ones who can solemnize a marriage is pure magical thinking. It's an easy sell for a lot of people to believe the clergy has some kind of magical power and a pipeline to the almighty. It's lost on people that this massively screwed up world is to a very large extent, the work-product of believers.
According to the CDC, Texas (along with Tennessee and Alabama), have the highest divorce rates in the country, And Alabama is tied with Mississippi as the most religious states in the USA.
I think they truly just want to deny others rights or privileges they enjoy themselves. The othering of people makes them feel more powerful because they are oh so weak. This path to power isn’t admirable at all! 🤣
One set of rules for thee, and a very different set of rules for me. It's an age old story, and one exacerbated by religion. The preachers can talk about their loving Jesus and the glorious afterlife from now on, but it is power and control on this earthly plain they covet more than anything. Power few groups are more ill-equipped to exercise.
well, has anyone considered the consequences of letting non-religious people conduct marriage ceremonies? Without the morals and limitation provided by religion, who knows what they will do? They might allow two people of different religions to cohabitate? Or allow a loving same sex couple to be legally recognized by the state and this have access to health care provided by one of the couples employers. They might even allow a couple of gingers to wed.... Or God forbid, a non-religious celebrant might even allow to Nickelback fans to marry!!! That would give legal permission to reproduce! What if these celebrants do it all at once. We would be over run with well adjusted half Lutheran, half Methodist soulless ginger children singing how they want to be rock stars off key and with access to healthcare!!! Is that the country you want to live in?
You are married when you have signed the legal paperwork. Not by the magic words uttered by the celebrant. The law has no business requiring a priest (or pastor, rabbi, imam ...) to be the master of ceremony at the private party you organize for family and friends.
Looking at the law, it appears to me that there is a special benefit to people of faith. Religious people get to have the clergy of their choice or have a courthouse wedding. All the non-religious get is the courthouse. Just because there is an 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 for a non-religious wedding, doesn't mean religion isn't favored. The only other option is to jump over the additional hurdle of online ordination, and thereby pretending to be religious. I would like to ask these judges if they really think it is appropriate to force Texans to pretend to be religious just so they can get married.
Yeah it's ridiculous. All you have to do is substitute race for religion and the bigotry is obvious. "All white people, plus black Judges, can solemnize a wedding. This is not racist because hey, black judges!" would never fly, even in Texas. But if the discriminated party is atheists? Sure, why not.
“Instead, there is a rational basis for the Statutes limitation based on both the historical practice of allowing judicial and religious officials to solemnize marriages, and because these individuals and their respective organizations can reasonably be expected to ensure the prerequisites to marriage are met and that the ceremony contains the necessary level of respect and solemnity without the need for significant involvement and oversight by the state.”
So, necessary level of respect and solemnity includes kneeling and standing and kneeling and standing, or a man in a robe with a funny hat, or often a torture device adorned with the subject of that torture in the most excruciating point of the torture front and center? Also there are wedding ceremonies with special candles, or funny underwear, or mystical chanting, or silly dances, or any number of activities that are strange, misogynistic, dehumanizing, and outrageous, but they’re all solemn and respectful in a way that a non-religious organization cannot possibly reproduce without magical men in the sky.
Also, this can easily be corrected legislatively. Rather than determining which type of organizations (this law clearly shows favoritism toward Christianity, and Judaism, by not only listing it first, but also grouping 99% of the rest of religions into one without naming any of them.) can perform the ceremonies, instead use the legislation to delineate what constitutes the right level of respect and solemnity. Anyone can claim that what one religion or another thinks is solemn is a farce. I think all the religious traditions are wild nonsense, silly and ridiculous. But those involved think they’re so deep and meaningful. And hey, there are folks that do crazy things at their weddings that are only meaningful to them, reciting vows in Klingon, dressing up as Tolkien elves, doing dance numbers from ridiculous comedies, skydiving or scuba diving ceremonies, and because there’s a religious clergy member willing to oversee that, it’s solemn enough, respectful enough for the state. But a celebrant from a non-religious organization will be a step too far. There really are no solemnity or respect standards, just an excuse to exclude non-religious people.
For the amusement of reinforcing your point: My first marriage was performed by a minister in a 'solemn ceremony' and dissolved four years later. My second was in a Las Vegas wedding chapel for fun and is still going strong more than 20 years later.
Sadly we didn't, but it was one of the best road trips I've ever been on. We effectively eloped and invited the rest of the family to join us there. All weddings should be so much fun.
Agree ,I think 💲$💱- and maintain a grasp on future generations.There was(is)pressure to support institutions we are associated with, blindly-without thought.
The solution is simple. Switch to mandatory wedding at the city/town hall with a religious ceremony after if desired 😋
"That didn’t apply, said the judge, because anyone looking at the law wouldn’t come away thinking it offered some special benefit to people of faith."
"The fact that the Statute does not allow every secular individual trained to solemnize marriages to legally solemnize marriages in Texas does not make this statute unconstitutional."
When I read that, I wonder how many federal judges would fail at a Constitutional law test.
"When I read that, I wonder how many federal judges would fail at a Constitutional law test."
Asking questions like that around southern states and Texas particularly result in what can be embarrassing outcomes. And the officials, both governmental and religious, mostly don't like being embarrassed, especially because of their respective positions of assumed authority.
Here, judges have to pass exams to get promoted, and the higher the position, the harder the exams. It doesn't completely prevent corruption but it's better than incompetent judges like cannon fodder or beer pong man nominated at (tenures ?) they are not qualified to fill.
I'm sure the pre-Trump conservative judges CAN answer these questions correctly, they just choose not to on the bench. Now, Trump's appointees? They may actually believe what they're shoveling.
What really has to happen is that the US needs to get over this stupid social and religious adolescence that we're struggling with and find its way somehow to adulthood.
The teen years are bad enough with parents and kids. With a whole nation, it's murder.
That reminds me of the 1984 US sitcom 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵. In one episode, Judge Harry marries a couple by simply signing their wedding certificate. Their reaction was, of course, confusion. He then explains that the only thing they need for their marriage to be legally recognized is his signature, no ceremonial gobbledegook required.
Time for TST to train official wedding celebrants. Wonder how your Texan neigbours and co-workers wil react when you invite them to your satanic wedding ceremony?
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The Satanic Temple's weddings and ceremonies program at our headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts has been redesigned and we can't wait to welcome you into The Little Black Chapel once more.
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Today marks the month and day in 1969 that humans first set on the Moon. As it turned out it's also the exact same date that David Bowie released "Space Oddity."
Get married in a church. When the priest holds out his hand, tell him he is a man of god and his almighty god will pay him. Tell him the state forced you to do this. So get paid by the state
The next step for Texas is not recognizing same-sex marriage followed by interracial marriages. I wouldn’t be surprised Texas and other states within the Bible Belt go that route. Civil rights and human rights, according to the rednecks only applies to Christian Nationalists. Everyone else is inferior or not even human (according to the rednecks).
Texas seems to be really jonesing to join a cattle call for The Handmaid's Tale (sorry, Texas, but that show wrapped a couple months ago!). To marry someone in the Lone Star State, you have to either be a religious official or a government official, and the way Texas is going, the lines on those two are going to blur pretty badly, pretty quickly. Secular celebrants need not apply, and the reasoning there also seems to be pretty poorly focused.
Ordinarily, I'd say appeal this ruling, but were it to go all the way to SCOTUS, I'm not at all sanguine about the outcome.
OT. My bride got a big promotion. Her new role will likely have her working 50-60 hours a week and traveling around the state of Maryland. With her concurrence, I am retiring from a job I detest, effective 8/15, to be a house husband. I’ll do all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, dog stuff, and shopping so we can spend our weekends not doing those things.
A wedding is certainly an odd time for the attendants to rehearse a scene from Equus.*
*Explaining the joke: Equus was a play that involved horses. In the play, human actors played the horses (although in the movie version, horses played horses).
I am a retired United Methodist minister. I have performed scores of weddings in California, Oregon, Arkansas, and Texas. I could have signed Mickey Mouse or George Washington for all anyone cared. My credential is stored in an obscure county court house deep in the Ozarks.
I will marry any couple with one stipulation: they have to come to my living room.
Where did the religious get the mistaken notion that they invented marriage and own it?
Like atheism, marriage predates any and all religion. Religion does not own a patent on the institution.
Marriage being a social construct and civil contract, and religion having had a stranglehold on society and civil law for centuries before the Enlightenment, it is no wonder that they think they own it. Just like everything else, more territorial pissing. I am tired of our mops smelling like urine.
When modern conservatives say "history," they mean something like "Barton's interpretation of puritan colonial life from 1650s to 1770s", not actual history.
👆🎯
Christians are so unoriginal and uncreative it’s laughable. Always stealing tradition from others and distorting it until it’s unrecognizable. Ask the Pagans🎄
It's also a $$$ machine.
Has nothing to do with morals. Thanks
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They’re Christians. They claim to have invented the universe, the world, all plants and animals, humans, civilisation, culture, “good” and “evil”, languages, mathematics, clothes, sailing, the Roman Empire, your neighbour Bob’s shoes, your cousin Annabelle’s Toyota Hilux, your cat’s flea collar…
And don’t forget David Graf claimed holidays and calendar months in the name of Christianity, as well.
Is Graf on drugs?
It was the one with the Obama Holiday that was happening very close to Easter.
Hate to burst his bubble (though someone should, as that bubble is preventing his brain from getting oxygen) but every day of the week i named after a pagan god and every moth is either named after a pagan god or a Roman emperor.
And how many pagan holidays have been stolen by Christians?
Ahh, here we go!
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Dated April 2024.
All of them, to make the natives more accepting of their hostile takeover. I think they missed Beltane and Lamas, but still.
Only the first half of the months. The second half is numbers :
September = 7
October = 8...
And December is 10…
Considering the vast number of moth species, how did they manage to narrow it down to just twelve?
He's never heard of the pre-christian romans?
Of course not! How could anything exist before Christians?
Silly me!
Agree ~ a monopoly over a civic construct/institution?
Also for years- you had to pay to "anual"(divorce)a marriage.The far right scream freedoms,yet trample the rights of others.What is moral about this?□Thanks
You may want to ask George Takei about that. He might disagree.
people.com/george-takei-shares-secret-happy-marriage-exclusive-8634270
"I don't care what he thinks. He's not a woman."
So you cavalierly dismiss his marriage because it doesn't fit your personal sweeping generalization of being a "barbaric practice?" Makes you a bit of a bigot. Marriage is no longer defined as "one man, one woman" (though the xtian reichwingers in this country are working hard to bring back the bad old days). Marriage equality is a reality in 38 countries as of last year.
Still going to go with that generalization of yours?
Oh my fucking god did she really say that? How embarrassing.
You keep screaming about legal contracts. You do know contracts are usually not considered to be bad things, right? Unless someone is dumb enough to enter into a contract with anyone named Trump.
Why did same sex couples have to demand equal treatment? Seriously? You don't know why?
We're never going to agree on this, so I'm going to leave it here.
An inconvenient fact: The divorce rate among Christians is higher than for atheists and agnostics. I think the urge to get members of the clergy to be the only ones who can solemnize a marriage is pure magical thinking. It's an easy sell for a lot of people to believe the clergy has some kind of magical power and a pipeline to the almighty. It's lost on people that this massively screwed up world is to a very large extent, the work-product of believers.
According to the CDC, Texas (along with Tennessee and Alabama), have the highest divorce rates in the country, And Alabama is tied with Mississippi as the most religious states in the USA.
Btw, Texass is where Jasmine resides.
Surprised, I am not.
I think they truly just want to deny others rights or privileges they enjoy themselves. The othering of people makes them feel more powerful because they are oh so weak. This path to power isn’t admirable at all! 🤣
One set of rules for thee, and a very different set of rules for me. It's an age old story, and one exacerbated by religion. The preachers can talk about their loving Jesus and the glorious afterlife from now on, but it is power and control on this earthly plain they covet more than anything. Power few groups are more ill-equipped to exercise.
Amen
Eternally relevant when it comes to them: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-05-03
Well, if the gayz and baby-eating atheists have the same privileges that they have, then their special privileges won't be so special anymore.
If The Others have the same rights and privileges as them, then they’re equals.
If they’re equals, then they don’t have more than.
And if they don’t have more, then they aren’t Superior anymore.
And equality feels like oppression to them.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLuuAFVgng0/?igsh=c2g3b2JrYmwwc3dq
Marriage is a civil contract. You don't go to a church to get your marriage license or to file for divorce.
More unwarranted xtian privilege.
This. A marriage is not legal until it is registered by the state.
well, has anyone considered the consequences of letting non-religious people conduct marriage ceremonies? Without the morals and limitation provided by religion, who knows what they will do? They might allow two people of different religions to cohabitate? Or allow a loving same sex couple to be legally recognized by the state and this have access to health care provided by one of the couples employers. They might even allow a couple of gingers to wed.... Or God forbid, a non-religious celebrant might even allow to Nickelback fans to marry!!! That would give legal permission to reproduce! What if these celebrants do it all at once. We would be over run with well adjusted half Lutheran, half Methodist soulless ginger children singing how they want to be rock stars off key and with access to healthcare!!! Is that the country you want to live in?
May I order a dark haired half Satanist, half Pagan ? It's not for a friend.
Any preference on the flavor of paganism?
Not a Viking/Saxon gods worshipper. They often are white nationalist assholes.
Too true.
The more redheads* the better.
*Women only.
I’ll take the gentlemen with red hair.
The more men* the better.
*Dark hair only.
How about mostly dark with gray highlights? : )
Looks like DM 😁
😛
I'll take them both, I'm an equal opportunist.
Not gingers! No! Evil soulless things!
P.S. I am a ginger, descended from gingers.
Hi, Baldy. :)
(don't gingers tend to bald early?)
Is 35 early?
The ones I have known kept their hair. Just adopted a new nickname "Whitey" as it turned white, not gray.
My mother's went brown instead of gray. Perhaps if she had lived past her 50s it would have eventually gone gray or white.
Gates McFadden's went gray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYsemEvV3-Y
I had red hair as a kid (mother and sister both redheads) and now have full head of very white hair.
P.S. what happened to my avatar? Seems to have vanished.
I had very blond hair up until age 5. Then my dad's genes took over and my hair turned brown.
My paternal grandfather too.
Mine too.
Papi ? T'as ressucité au bout de 24 ans ?
Beware, you may be snatched by cdbunch.
I doubt it. I'm old and worn down by life.
Those of a certain ange and political bent might remember "The mind of Markey Mark and the body of Calvin Trillin."
🤣
Fine with me, bud! 🤣
It might lead to……dancing!
YEP ,,,good point.
Religion's final hurrah.
You are married when you have signed the legal paperwork. Not by the magic words uttered by the celebrant. The law has no business requiring a priest (or pastor, rabbi, imam ...) to be the master of ceremony at the private party you organize for family and friends.
Ever so much this ^^^^^
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑦, 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ.
Looking at the law, it appears to me that there is a special benefit to people of faith. Religious people get to have the clergy of their choice or have a courthouse wedding. All the non-religious get is the courthouse. Just because there is an 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 for a non-religious wedding, doesn't mean religion isn't favored. The only other option is to jump over the additional hurdle of online ordination, and thereby pretending to be religious. I would like to ask these judges if they really think it is appropriate to force Texans to pretend to be religious just so they can get married.
Yeah it's ridiculous. All you have to do is substitute race for religion and the bigotry is obvious. "All white people, plus black Judges, can solemnize a wedding. This is not racist because hey, black judges!" would never fly, even in Texas. But if the discriminated party is atheists? Sure, why not.
I married a couple at the Texas Renaissance Festival , last year. It was Bob's Burger themed.
I am no longer a theist, but I am credentialed. Texas did not question my signature on the license.
“Instead, there is a rational basis for the Statutes limitation based on both the historical practice of allowing judicial and religious officials to solemnize marriages, and because these individuals and their respective organizations can reasonably be expected to ensure the prerequisites to marriage are met and that the ceremony contains the necessary level of respect and solemnity without the need for significant involvement and oversight by the state.”
So, necessary level of respect and solemnity includes kneeling and standing and kneeling and standing, or a man in a robe with a funny hat, or often a torture device adorned with the subject of that torture in the most excruciating point of the torture front and center? Also there are wedding ceremonies with special candles, or funny underwear, or mystical chanting, or silly dances, or any number of activities that are strange, misogynistic, dehumanizing, and outrageous, but they’re all solemn and respectful in a way that a non-religious organization cannot possibly reproduce without magical men in the sky.
Also, this can easily be corrected legislatively. Rather than determining which type of organizations (this law clearly shows favoritism toward Christianity, and Judaism, by not only listing it first, but also grouping 99% of the rest of religions into one without naming any of them.) can perform the ceremonies, instead use the legislation to delineate what constitutes the right level of respect and solemnity. Anyone can claim that what one religion or another thinks is solemn is a farce. I think all the religious traditions are wild nonsense, silly and ridiculous. But those involved think they’re so deep and meaningful. And hey, there are folks that do crazy things at their weddings that are only meaningful to them, reciting vows in Klingon, dressing up as Tolkien elves, doing dance numbers from ridiculous comedies, skydiving or scuba diving ceremonies, and because there’s a religious clergy member willing to oversee that, it’s solemn enough, respectful enough for the state. But a celebrant from a non-religious organization will be a step too far. There really are no solemnity or respect standards, just an excuse to exclude non-religious people.
For the amusement of reinforcing your point: My first marriage was performed by a minister in a 'solemn ceremony' and dissolved four years later. My second was in a Las Vegas wedding chapel for fun and is still going strong more than 20 years later.
Tell me you had an Elvis impersonator!
Sadly we didn't, but it was one of the best road trips I've ever been on. We effectively eloped and invited the rest of the family to join us there. All weddings should be so much fun.
Hound dogs chasin' down the hoodoo man.
When you're born on the bayou, that sort of thing is normal.
Agree ,I think 💲$💱- and maintain a grasp on future generations.There was(is)pressure to support institutions we are associated with, blindly-without thought.
Thanks
"And hey, there are folks that do crazy things at their weddings that are only meaningful to them . . ."
Like . . .
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8086f51b19afb27d09da5c84c1f12d6b3b9b1cb65938d8ee9c212e0303aeff1e.gif
. . . not smashing cake into each other's face.
The solution is simple. Switch to mandatory wedding at the city/town hall with a religious ceremony after if desired 😋
"That didn’t apply, said the judge, because anyone looking at the law wouldn’t come away thinking it offered some special benefit to people of faith."
"The fact that the Statute does not allow every secular individual trained to solemnize marriages to legally solemnize marriages in Texas does not make this statute unconstitutional."
When I read that, I wonder how many federal judges would fail at a Constitutional law test.
"When I read that, I wonder how many federal judges would fail at a Constitutional law test."
Asking questions like that around southern states and Texas particularly result in what can be embarrassing outcomes. And the officials, both governmental and religious, mostly don't like being embarrassed, especially because of their respective positions of assumed authority.
Tread carefully.
Here, judges have to pass exams to get promoted, and the higher the position, the harder the exams. It doesn't completely prevent corruption but it's better than incompetent judges like cannon fodder or beer pong man nominated at (tenures ?) they are not qualified to fill.
I'm sure the pre-Trump conservative judges CAN answer these questions correctly, they just choose not to on the bench. Now, Trump's appointees? They may actually believe what they're shoveling.
I'd love to see such a system put in place here, but this is the United States! Who the hell are WE kidding?!? 🤪
I know, it's a tall order going from medieval England to modern France. As cutting religious practice from public offices and government.
What really has to happen is that the US needs to get over this stupid social and religious adolescence that we're struggling with and find its way somehow to adulthood.
The teen years are bad enough with parents and kids. With a whole nation, it's murder.
Or Louie Gohmert the east Texas village idiot.
Right,,,a state where Elon Musk- bought a town to house his 11 wives in privacy 🙈🙉🙊
11 brood mares.
None of whom actually WANT to live there.
https://tinyurl.com/mrx9dydz
That reminds me of the 1984 US sitcom 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵. In one episode, Judge Harry marries a couple by simply signing their wedding certificate. Their reaction was, of course, confusion. He then explains that the only thing they need for their marriage to be legally recognized is his signature, no ceremonial gobbledegook required.
Time for TST to train official wedding celebrants. Wonder how your Texan neigbours and co-workers wil react when you invite them to your satanic wedding ceremony?
I'd go, if there's metal.
You have good taste.
Be sure to include "Ave Satanas!" along with each invite. :)
"Ave Satanas" are Latin words and that's only spoken in Latin-America. Here in Texas you have to translate it into Redneckistanese: "Hail Satan".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4voMht6FJHo
Better. I Bring You Hellfire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GCSWEgZT94
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If texass really followed the tradition from it's founding, it should be "Hola Satán".
They should go even further and say it in languages like for example karankawa, coahuilltecan or atakapa.
WEDDINGS – I WOULD LIKE TO GET MARRIED BY THE SATANIC TEMPLE
Our ordained ministers can legally officiate weddings in every state in the United States. If you are planning a wedding and are interested in having a Minister of Satan who has been ordained by The Satanic Temple officiate the ceremony, please contact your closest congregation to see if a Minister is available in your area.
The Satanic Temple's weddings and ceremonies program at our headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts has been redesigned and we can't wait to welcome you into The Little Black Chapel once more.
Click here to learn more about Satanic Ceremonies at The Satanic Temple Salem!
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OT
Today marks the month and day in 1969 that humans first set on the Moon. As it turned out it's also the exact same date that David Bowie released "Space Oddity."
Here's Chris Hadfield's version
youtu.be/pDyl6I6ESSw
Sometimes, you just need a little science and technology. Oh, and Hadfield's an atheist. 😎
Supposedly. ; )
Hey, who you gonna believe, sane people or Lauren Boebert? 😃
Those rockets taking off that I could see from my backyard when I was a kid were fake!!!
I was married by a friend who had the two minute credential, as I didn’t know any judges. A guy in a gorilla suit would have been ok too.
Get married in a church. When the priest holds out his hand, tell him he is a man of god and his almighty god will pay him. Tell him the state forced you to do this. So get paid by the state
The next step for Texas is not recognizing same-sex marriage followed by interracial marriages. I wouldn’t be surprised Texas and other states within the Bible Belt go that route. Civil rights and human rights, according to the rednecks only applies to Christian Nationalists. Everyone else is inferior or not even human (according to the rednecks).
Texas seems to be really jonesing to join a cattle call for The Handmaid's Tale (sorry, Texas, but that show wrapped a couple months ago!). To marry someone in the Lone Star State, you have to either be a religious official or a government official, and the way Texas is going, the lines on those two are going to blur pretty badly, pretty quickly. Secular celebrants need not apply, and the reasoning there also seems to be pretty poorly focused.
Ordinarily, I'd say appeal this ruling, but were it to go all the way to SCOTUS, I'm not at all sanguine about the outcome.
Zero hope with a hellbent corrupt SCOTUS for the foreseeable future…
OT. My bride got a big promotion. Her new role will likely have her working 50-60 hours a week and traveling around the state of Maryland. With her concurrence, I am retiring from a job I detest, effective 8/15, to be a house husband. I’ll do all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, dog stuff, and shopping so we can spend our weekends not doing those things.
Woot!
Big time props.
Seems you got a promoton as well. You escaped a job you hated for a life at home. :)
I wish you a happy new career.
Thank you.
A wedding is certainly an odd time for the attendants to rehearse a scene from Equus.*
*Explaining the joke: Equus was a play that involved horses. In the play, human actors played the horses (although in the movie version, horses played horses).
I'm waiting for the version where horses play the humans.
I R GREAT cook. I press proper buttons on microwave, food good. Wrong buttons, Barry cusses. Also great at opening cans.
Congratulations squared.
Thank you.
I am a retired United Methodist minister. I have performed scores of weddings in California, Oregon, Arkansas, and Texas. I could have signed Mickey Mouse or George Washington for all anyone cared. My credential is stored in an obscure county court house deep in the Ozarks.
I will marry any couple with one stipulation: they have to come to my living room.
Does your living room have a cocktail bar or do they have to bring their own?
It is BYOB, but I always have excellent dank cannabis to share ...