Online Ordination Company Gets Win Against Tennessee in Settlement

Online Ordination Company Gets Win Against Tennessee in Settlement
Couples arrange for Valentine's Day courthouse wedding services at the Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana, Calif., on Feb. 14, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
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After four years of litigation, a company that ordains ministers online to perform marriages and other ceremonies reached a settlement with the State of Tennessee this week in a lawsuit they filed against the state in 2019.

The Universal Life Church Monastery Storehouse (ULCM), a Washington-based organization that ordains ministers online, sued the state in 2019 after a law went into effect that aimed to prohibit ministers ordained online from solemnizing legal marriages in the state.

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