Sentence examples for conducting marriages from inspiring English sources

Becoming a minister in Texas will allow you to perform all the functions of religious ceremonies and customs in most places in the United States, including conducting marriages and funerals, and leading or starting a church.

It is a myth that a sea captain, merely by being a sea captain, has authority under U.S. law to conduct a marriage ceremony while at sea that would be valid in any state.[40] Even if the captain is also an ordained religious figure, many states have specific laws prohibiting sea captains from conducting marriages.

He spent his free time giving lectures, conducting marriage ceremonies and offering occasional religious guidance.

But they will still have no power to conduct marriages or conversions.

Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general, discussed the issue of same-sex marriage yesterday with Jason West, the mayor of New Paltz, who conducted marriages for 25 gay couples in his village two weeks ago.

"I am absolutely clear that no religious organisation will ever be forced to conduct marriages for same-sex couples, and I would not bring in a Bill which would allow that," she said.

Councils are charging churches and synagogues up to 16 times more for a three-year licence to hold civil partnership ceremonies than for a permanent licence to conduct marriages, Guardian research has revealed.

Kagan swiftly rebutted the argument, pointing out that "there are many rabbis that will not conduct marriages between Jews and non­Jews, notwithstanding that we have a constitutional prohibition against religious discrimination".

The hotel kitchens provided meals of beans and rice for refugees; a priest celebrated mass and conducted marriages in the conference room; there was a doctor and nurses, who helped deliver a baby in room 216.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller told the Commons in December that no religious organisation "will ever be forced to conduct marriages for same-sex couples".

Mrs Miller told the Commons in December that no religious organisation "will ever be forced to conduct marriages for same-sex couples".