Drop dead, Reverend Fucknugget!

The BBQ Pit
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I just asked a simple question about how difficult the process for an ordained minister to get licensed to perform a marriage in your state. I didn’t invite you over to the fucking dark side, I didn’t offer to send you naked pictures, I just wanted you to answer a simple fucking question!!

Judging by your advertising website, you’re a little more interested in soliciting business than doing God’s fucking will, so what’s the big fucking deal, asshat? And just where the fuck do you get off implying that I’m up to no good based on my goddammed fucking email address? Where? And what the fucking hell happened to the goddmamned Christian spirit of fucking charity and faith in you fucking fellow man?

If ever a Christian minister was going to burn in the fiery pits of Hell, it’ll be you, you smug, presumptuous, hypocritical mass of ignorance, bigotry, and rudeness. Fuck you, buddy, and the pew you rode in on.

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Good god, what did he say?

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Well, if you used the e-mail address you have listed here, I could see how that would piss a man of the cloth off a little bit.

It’s a bit like e-mailing the president of the National Veganists Association, and saying “Please tell me how I can apply for the position of treasurer. You can e-mail me at bigfuckingchunksofdeadcow@meatlovers.com”.

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Welby, he essentially told me to get bent, since we weren’t trying to hire him, and I didn’t tell him how I got his e-mail address. (The guy has a fucking webiste advertising his services, with a link to his email.) He also implied that I was probably a Satanist, and stated outright that he was suspicious of my motives. Overall, he was really rather rude about the whole thing. If he’d just said he’d prefer not to answer my question, but I need to talk to such and such branch of the Health Department for more specific info, I wouldn’t have cared. It was the unmitigated rudeness and lack of common courtesy that pissed me off.

As far as the email address, it’s a reference to an old running joke from high school, and I use it almost entirely to keep up with that group of friends. I’ve had it for years and don’t get a lot of spam, so I’ve never bothered to change it. I just don’t even think about it. It has nothing to do with my beliefs or actions, just something my friends and I got a kick out of back when we were fifteen and damn near everything was funny.

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Devil Fish-is that a reference to MST3K?

:wink:

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Since it’s not copyrightable, and since you can remove any personal identifying information from it (his and yours), how about posting your email and his reply, so we can agree/disagree/have a good laugh?

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I’m an atheist, but frankly, I would march right into any church that had a sign outside reading, “Officiating today: Reverend Fucknugget.”

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I don’t know how to retrieve the one I sent, but DrJ dug his reply out of my trash can last night after I got pissed and deleted it. My original e-mail was just a question about how the state of Louisiana interprets this statement: Ministers of the gospel or priests of any denomination in regular communion with any religious society may perform marriages.

I wasn’t sure how they interpret the part about regular communion, and this guy is ordained through the same outfit DrJ is, so I thought he might be able to give some more information. It seemed a lot easier than waiting till today to chase people around the Health Department system for an hour. Besides, if getting our friend licensed wouldn’t be practical, I thought we might see if this guy was available to do our wedding.

Anyway, here’s what he sent me in it’s entirety.

Why don’t you ask them?

Pardon me for being skeptical, but…

You do not want my services. I do not know who or what you are.

Your e-mail name has certain unwelcome inferences.

You did not cite where you found my address.

I pray “In the Holy Name of Jesus” that he will help guide you toward GOD and
your needs will be met, if GOD should find it in his infinite mercy that it
should be so.

Good luck!

(But, like I said, I am skeptical regarding the motives of your request and
question the wisdom of further contact)

Since I laid the situation out for him in the original email (destination wedding, would really love for close mutual friend to do the ceremony rather than a stranger, gave him my name), I’m a little unclear on what exactly he thinks I’m up to.

It’s not like saying, “Well, you have to fulfill x requirements,” or “Well, I had to do x, but your situation may be different,” would have killed him.

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Seems like he was just pissed because of the word “devil” in your email address. Even though it’s devilfish.

A skeptical minister, eh. Surely an oxymoron? Or just a moron.

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I guess Rev. Fucknugget turns off the TV when ACC basketball and football are on, what with the Blue Devils (Duke) and the Demon Deacons (Wake Forest), if “devilishfish” is enough to upset him. :rolleyes:

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Here is Rev. Fucknugget’s web site.

The Rev. is ordained through the Universal Life Church, the classic back-of-Rolling Stone ordination outfit. One would think that with self-righteousness of that magnitude, he’d be able to get ordained by some more selective sect.

Geez.

Dr. J

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I’ve got him bookmarked in case I ever decide to convert to Christianity and get married.

Or possibly just harrassing him at a future, unspecified date. :slight_smile:

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I’m a reverend of the Universal Life Church. Maybe I should bring his bad behaviour up at the next synod.

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I’ll second that motion jjimm.
Reverend Eddie Swish.

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I am a minister in that Church, and so is my dog

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I’ve sent him a mail:

Will post reply if I receive one… :smiley:

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I’m also a ULC minister, and on retrospect maybe Revfucknugget would have been a more interesting username than Revtim.

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jjimm wrote: “It has been brought to my attention that you have been less than kind to certain applicants for your wedding services.”

But actually, wasn’t CrazyCatLady actually inquiring how to avoid using his services by becoming licensed to perform marriages herself?

Is it any wonder he was hostile? “Instead of providing you business, can you tell me how to do it myself, and not only avoid paying you but maybe even possibly take away some of your business for myself?”

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jjimm, do you have a cite for that assumption about copyright? I have one to the contrary. See Brad Templeton’s copyright myths page, particularly #10.

In the US, expression of an idea is copyrighted as soon as it is fixed in tangible form, and that includes e-mail.

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Actually, Revtim, you’re both mistaken. I was not applying for his services, nor was I trying to get licensed myself to take away some of his business. As the term “destination wedding” implies by its very definition, no one involved with this wedding lives in the area, or even the state of Louisiana. I was asking the man if it would be a totally unmanageable ordeal to have one of our closest friends, who understands our beliefs and loves and respects us as individuals and as a couple, licensed to perform our wedding. All of this was explained to the man in the initial email, so it was more a matter of “Is it going to be horrible trying to get someone we love licensed to do this, or should we just suck it up and hire someone who’s in it solely for the fee?”