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Reverend Gaga to the Marriage Rescue?


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Pop icon Lady Gaga reportedly wants to take her commitment to equality to the next level and get ordained so that she can marry her gay friends.

According to MTV UK, “Lady Gaga wants to get ordained so she can marry her gay friends, according to reports. The singer has spoken many times about her love for the gay community and spoken out against Proposition 8 legislation. But it’s claimed she now wants to go even further and become an ordained minister giving her legal permission to perform wedding ceremonies.”

As an ordained minister, Gaga would follow in the footsteps of Tori Spelling, who was ordained online and performed a same-sex marriage at the inn she runs with her husband, Dean McDermott.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Stephen
    Date posted: 9/21/2010 5:50:49 PM
    Hometown: Seattle

    Comment:

    While I agree with Tararist that there are some pretty serious issues being ignored, I also feel like attention on ANY rights issue generates attention for ALL rights issues. Yes, the right to life is more vital than the right to marry, but marriage equality is still a step in the direction of all-around equality. There are organizations like the Universal Life Church who are pretty vocal marriage equality advocates, and also talk about a lot of other issues. They even had a blog post about Lady Gaga http://blog.themonastery.org/2010/09/lady-gaga-to-become-ordained-minister/ I wonder if that's where she got ordained? Hopefully conventional churches will soon follow their lead...

  • Name: tararist
    Date posted: 9/16/2010 4:11:49 PM
    Hometown: queer, ohio

    Comment:

    This is a betrayal of real gay rights that matter. The right of monogamous, middle and upper class cisgendered gay people to marry the state is pretty fucking jank compared to say, the right of trans women of colour not to be murdered at alarming rates, or the right of trans people to be given equal access to healthcare and housing, or the right of trans and genderqueer people to have their identities respected in identification and prison segregation, etc...

  • Name: Chris
    Date posted: 9/1/2010 1:22:17 PM
    Hometown: Va Beach

    Comment:

    I can see it now....new TV special...A Very GaGa wedding...dancers in weird customes the grooms shuffle forward to the alter that lowers from the ceiling. Gaga performs the ceremony through a medley over hits

  • Name: Eddie
    Date posted: 9/1/2010 1:00:27 PM
    Hometown: Arvin

    Comment:

    i want to get married by Gaga!

  • Name: Daniel B
    Date posted: 9/1/2010 12:10:22 PM
    Hometown: Berkeley, CA (For now)

    Comment:

    Hmm...Maybe Lady Gaga will come to Pacific School for Religion in Berkeley to enroll in their MDiv program!

  • Name: Dj
    Date posted: 9/1/2010 11:35:14 AM
    Hometown: KCMO

    Comment:

    It's not only ministers who can legally perform marriages. Justices of the peace can also marry people in most states. If she became a JoP, she could marry people w/o the stigma of religion. Wouldn't that be just "gaga?"

  • Name: Conor Matthews
    Date posted: 9/1/2010 11:06:20 AM
    Hometown: Dundalk, Ireland

    Comment:

    Lady Gaga; doing her bit since 2007



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