A coworker that rock-climbs was asked by his fellow rock-climbers to be the minister at their wedding, since he was and ordained priest on line. He showed us wonderful pictures of the wedding at a humanly in-accessible peak that only they could rock climb. Beautiful.
So out of curiosity I went to the website he mentioned and saw the button for ‘click to be ordained’. I clicked it, thinking it would lead to another page asking for money or other contribution.
But no.. it came up as ‘Congratulations! you are now ordained in the church of something or other’.
So now, I am officially a priest.
Does that mean that if I hire someone I can call them ministers? /s
You don’t have to call them ministers nor do they need to be ministers under this ruling. They need merely to have a ministerial function and the church gets to decide who has a ministerial function. A sweeping victory.