joey nelson » marriage http://jnjnjn.com Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Dumb analogy of the day http://jnjnjn.com/54/dumb-analogy-of-the-day/ http://jnjnjn.com/54/dumb-analogy-of-the-day/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:51:58 +0000 joey http://jnjnjn.com/54/dumb-analogy-of-the-day/ From Page 2 of Great Wedding! But Was It Legal? in the New York Times:

The laws regarding officiants are there to ensure that only people of sufficient standing perform a ceremony that is a keystone of society. Elnora Douglas, the office coordinator of the St. Louis County marriage license department, finds it odd that couples would want to circumvent them.

“It’s like you want your favorite cousin to do a surgery, so they go online to get a medical degree,” she said.

Yes, Elnora, that’s exactly what it’s like.

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