State of Ohio rejects Dudeism!? Whoa, wtf man?

[okfinewhateva]

Has anyone tried to apply in Illinois? Just wondering if it would be a hassle here, it would be most Dudely to be able to marry people here . Suckers!

[cckeiser]

Has anyone tried to apply in Illinois? Just wondering if it would be a hassle here, it would be most Dudely to be able to marry people here . Suckers!

You can look up the laws for all the States here:
http://usmarriagelaws.com/

Welcome to our nice quiet beach community dude....smoke em if you got em!

[okfinewhateva]

I found this:
n a nutshell:  Ordained ministers, judges, retired judges, and public officials whose powers include solemnization of marriages

(750 ILCS 5/209) (from Ch. 40, par. 209) Sec. 209. Solemnization and Registration.) (a) A marriage may be solemnized by a judge of a court of record, by a retired judge of a court of record, unless the retired judge was removed from office by the Judicial Inquiry Board, except that a retired judge shall not receive any compensation from the State, a county or any unit of local government in return for the solemnization of a marriage and there shall be no effect upon any pension benefits conferred by the Judges Retirement System of Illinois, by a judge of the Court of Claims, by a county clerk in counties having 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, by a public official whose powers include solemnization of marriages, or in accordance with the prescriptions of any religious denomination, Indian Nation or Tribe or Native Group, provided that when such prescriptions require an officiant, the officiant be in good standing with his religious denomination, Indian Nation or Tribe or Native Group. Either the person solemnizing the marriage, or, if no individual acting alone solemnized the marriage, both parties to the marriage, shall complete the marriage certificate form and forward it to the county clerk within 10 days after such marriage is solemnized. 

I guess I need to be dudely with the admins here and the Dudely Lama .I might be able to pull it off , though.

[cookiemeat]

You can get your letter of good standing from the dudeist website and as long as you don't get revoked you should be all good. Some states think somehow a congregation and funding for a church with tax exempt status is the way to see if a religion is legit but to me that is just a way to control the sheep and possibly a way to make it corrupt. Money+power rarely does any good in this world so I am happy there is not much of it flying around dudeism.

Where in IL are you at bro? I live by mount prospect and work by Ohare (across from the strip club)

[okfinewhateva]

I am in the southern part of Illinois , the virtual epicenter of absolutely nothing . Marion-Carbondale area.I think I am gonna have to go for this , officiating a ceremony would be great moment in Dude history for me.

[frothcia]

fuck it dude, you, like a dueist priest, dude. your one of us, so marry the dude, dude

[rev-jaholbrook]

I'm kinda late to this conversation but I was wondering if the Ohio situation got worked out.  I just wanna know what steps were taken to rectify this if I hit these snags in Utah or Georgia.  Thankee dudes.

[meekon5]

The other way round this is to give a Dudeist blessing, and let the registry office deal with the legal mumbo-jumbo.

[rev-jaholbrook]

Wow.  That's pretty lame man. 

[meekon5]

Pagans have been doing things this way for years, I personally attended a Pagan Handfasting a few weeks back (see my facebook page for photo's), a few days after the main registry affair.

Our main problem is the fact we are not "christian" or "buddhists" or "muslims" or any of the other faiths (ideologies) that the US (or UK) government want to "recognise".

Despite lots of campaigns in the UK to do with census data here it requires an act of parliament to get a religion "recognised".

Previously you could rely on the church of eternal lights ordination but I believe there has been a clamp down on that one.

personally I think we should start a page of "We Dudeists do not recognise the following states and countries!" page on the Dudes paper or official site. On the basis of if they don't recognise us we refuse to recognise them. Just to show them we can be just as idiotic.

[rev-jaholbrook]

I just think its ridiculous that there has to be that much crap.  Not to trash talk other religious ideas but if a guy can claim he is the last prophet of god and tell people he has mystical plates with messages from god and still be a "real religion" we can't we be able to perform a marriage...  That's my hang up.

[DigitalBuddha]

Wow.  That's pretty lame man. 

But you have to admit, it IS very dude-like.

[Hominid]

Wow.  That's pretty lame man. 

But you have to admit, it IS very dude-like.

How so? Doesn't sound like slacking to me!!  ;-)

[DigitalBuddha]

Wow.  That's pretty lame man. 

But you have to admit, it IS very dude-like.

How so? Doesn't sound like slacking to me!!  ;-)

I was thinking a dude-like wedding would consist of........

"I do, she does, we will."  Done, now time for coitus!

[rev-jaholbrook]

Haha right on!