Universal Life Church

• Over the past 15 years, I have officiated over 20 weddings for friends and family, plus nearly 200 more as a part-time professional wedding officiant.
• These weddings have ranged from simple elopements to fancy ceremonies before hundreds of guests.
• They have taken place at farms, beaches, mountaintops, hotels, wineries and warehouses – but never at a church.
• When two friends whom I had introduced to each other asked me to officiate their wedding back in 2008, I was touched and honored.

Mail-order ministry

• Hensley’s religious views were hard to categorize, and the congregations that he formed kicked him out when disagreements arose.
• The ULC’s only doctrine is to “do that which is right,” which each person can define for themselves.
• Hensley offered free mail-order ordinations and soon began mass ordinations at spiritual conventions and college campuses, where he was a popular speaker.
• The ULC Monastery’s websites now dominate the online ordination business, claiming to receive 1,000 requests each day.

My wedding, my way

• They want their weddings performed by someone they know, trust and care about and who will deliver a ceremony tailored to them.
• These desires reflect two key trends in the wedding industry and in American religion: personalization and secularization.
• The church has authorized same-sex weddings since at least 1971, when Kirby Hensley presided over a wedding of two women.
• While the ULC often serves as a religion of convenience, it has allowed many spiritual and secular people to practice what is sacred to them.

• The Universal Life Church Ministries won a victory in their ongoing lawsuit against a number of Tennessee state officials, allowing their case to restore the rights of their online-ordained minister to solemnize legal marriages to continue to move forward in federal district court.
• SEATTLE, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Universal Life Church and its ministers won another victory in their ongoing lawsuit against the State of Tennessee on Friday, May 27 that will allow them to continue to pursue their case in District Court.
• The published decision in Universal Life Church Monastery v. Nabors (originating case No.
• The Universal Life Church Ministries is a nondenominational religious organization based in Seattle, Washington.

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• LAS VEGAS, Feb. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Universal Life Church Ministries alerted its ministers that the Office of the District Attorney for Clark County, Nevada had elected to settle a lawsuit filed against the county by the Church.
• 2:18-cv-02099-RFB-BNW entitled Universal Life Church Monastery v. Clark County, et al., was before the United States District Court of Nevada.
• In a statement celebrating the settlement, the Universal Life Church indicated that its ministers could now freely practice their faith and perform legal marriage ceremonies in Clark County, NV.
• The Office of the District Attorney for Clark County, NV issued its own statement acknowledging the settlement and echoing that Universal Life Church ministers could once again feel comfortable solemnizing legal marriages in Clark County.