down a church aisle is turning into a distant memory for many Americans, replaced with weddings on beaches, in parks, in backyards, and increasingly officiated not by one's minister or rabbi but by a dear friend who turned himself into a minister overnight by getting ordained online.
Becoming a fake minister has been a necessary part of the officiating job because many states require it. But those requirements received a big blow Monday, when a federal appeals court overturned such a law in
Indiana, saying that the state must now allow "secular celebrants" to officiate weddings. ORIGINAL ARTICLE