# Who Married You? (that’s not what I mean-- check out the poll)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 1, 2025, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-married-you-that-s-not-what-i-mean-check-out-the-poll/1025281 "2025-12-01T06:09:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-married-you-that-s-not-what-i-mean-check-out-the-poll/1025281/39 "2025-12-01T09:05:40Z")

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Moderating:

> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> So, being married by a minister is clearly NOT the same as being married by a priest (something I am 100% sure my (ex) wife would agree with). And fer sure not her mom!
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> They are not the same. I know…I was there. I got married in a Catholic church. It was not the same as being married in a protestant church. Indeed, the priest made it clear (notably having the congregation take communion…Catholic priest was very not cool with that).

And a Rabbi isn’t ever called a “minister”, either, but the OP made it very clear that she was sloppy with the language and meant “any member of the clergy of” when she wrote “minster”.

This thread is not about the precise

> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> So, being married by a minister is clearly NOT the same as being married by a priest

For the purpose of this thread it is exactly the same.

@Whack-a-Mole , @kenobi_65 drop this hijack now.

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