Anyone can become a priest of the church.
In Phoenix, Arizona, the First United Church of Cthulhu emerged, a registered non-profit religious organization that, according to the documents, "worships and glorifies our God Cthulhu."
The founder of the church calls himself Khave Head. The organization's website states that the Church of Cthulhu is "a gathering place for monsters, eccentrics and other dark souls." In addition to praising the character in Howard Lacraft's stories, the church is faced with another challenge - to circumvent American rules for conducting wedding ceremonies.
According to the laws of most states, any official can conduct the wedding ceremony: judges, senators, congressmen, mayors, as well as clergy, regardless of denomination. Khave Head invites anyone to register as a priest of the Church of Cthulhu. To do this, you just need to insert your name and surname into a special form, mark the date of ordination and download the certificate. For an additional $ 20, Khave Head can send a self-signed certificate, notarized.
After that, the newly minted priest has the right not only to conduct wedding ceremonies, but also to issue the appropriate official letters. The church also offers several samples of marriage instructions to assist the priest in the ceremony.
The Cthulhu Church is far from the first religious organization to help conduct wedding ceremonies. For example, the American Marriage Ministries Church has nearly 700,000 official priests. The Church professes only three tenets: “All people, regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation, have the right to marry. All people have the right to marry, and all people have the right to choose those who will marry them."
Author: Mikhail Sysoev
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