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Only Religious Can Perform Weddings in Vegas

By Ed Brayton

pThe LA Times a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-weddings14-2008dec14,0,5458048.story"reports/a:/p blockquoteReporting from Las Vegas -- In a city launched by shotgun weddings and quickie divorces, and which offers the chance to be wed by faux Liberaces, King Tuts and Grim Reapers, there remains at least one nuptial taboo: You can't be married by an atheist. pMichael Jacobson, a 64-year-old retiree who calls himself a lifelong atheist, tried this year to get a license to perform weddings. Clark County rejected his application because he had no ties to a congregation, as state law requires./blockquote/p a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/only_religious_can_perform_wed.php"Read the rest of this post.../a | a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/only_religious_can_perform_wed.php#commentsArea"Read the comments on this post.../aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/dispatches/~4/488712845" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).