How many online churches exist where someone can become an ordained minister to perform weddings in the US?
The Universal Life Church does ordain people online. http://www.themonastery.org/ The cool bit about the ULC is that they allow you to create your own congregation and name your new church anything you would like to name it. You get a fresh new church but with the old ULC behind it, which can be a mixed blessing. My father-in-law started a new congregation through the ULC for purely religious reasons. He says he’s lucky it was for purely religious reasons because at one point his church’s council looked into getting some form of IRS religious tax exemption for a charity fundraising event, and discovered that the IRS scrutinizes the ULC a little harder than other religious organizations when it comes to religious tax exemptions. If you are planning on using the religious tax exemption mostly for personal gain, then forget about the ULC. Another online ordination service is the World Christianship Ministries (http://www.ordain.org/weddings.html), who do charge money to ordain you, but th
