There are several problems with your analysis. First,
the ULC will not ordain inanimate objects, pets, fish tanks, cartoon characters or refrigerators. If you submitted a bogus name, you are the one who committed fraud, not the ULC. A California judge made this observation years ago when a San Jose police officer tried to bring an action against the ULC, showing that he had his dog ordained. The judge admonished him for his fraud.
If you got a Social Security number for your refrigerator, would you then claim fraud on the part of the SSA? Try filing a tax return for your refrigerator. Go on. I dare ya to try it! I'll even send you letters while you're in prison to keep your spirits up!
Secondly, the real
Universal Life Church has NEVER charged a dime for ordination, and never will. There are lots of scammers online now using the name of the church to bilk people out of money. The posting shown above is an example of one group that began using the name in 2006, operated out of a UPS Store in Seattle, and doesn't even have church services that are open to the public. Another in Florida is run by a three-time loser, a convicted criminal now claiming to be the President of the Universal Life Church World Headquarters. Neither of them has any connection to the famous church founded by Kirby Hensley in Modesto, CA in 1959.
California "celebrant pack"? Total scam. There is no such package and nothing of the sort required in California. In those few states that require a minister to provide documentation for a legal purpose, the church headquarters will provide it at no charge (except if it must be notarized, the minister is asked to pay for the notary). If you doubt, call any county clerk in California and ask them!
Federal courts have repeatedly held that ULC ministers are real ministers and entitled to the same status as any other, as have state courts, the City of New York, and others. The state of North Carolina passed a law specifically clarifying that ULC ministers are ministers, entitled to officiate marriage in that state. They did so because people like you were spreading lies and telling people their marriages were not valid because they used a ULC minister!
You searched for legal cases, so you could not have found the irrelevant cases you cited here without also coming across those others that strongly affirm the ULC. Yet for some reason, you decided not to post anything that refuted your agenda. Not really honest of you.
You can object to the
Universal Life Church's doctrine of ordaining all who ask (including prisoners, as well as judges, police officers, nurses, fire fighters, EMT's, lawyers, doctors, and janitors). That is your right, to believe as you wish, and the ULC would be the first to defend your right on that score. But you have no basis to refute the ULC's status as a legitimate church, simply because they don't adhere to your restrictive view of religion and how a church should operate.
You certainly can't call it a scam, when they give away ordination and all needed documentation to support it, and NEVER solicit donations or even pass the plate at services. Oh yes, they have services. In a real church building, every Sunday morning, and it is open to the public. If you giving things away without charge a scam, then please tell me what you call it when churches demand that members give 10% of their income to the church or be told that they are "robbing God"!
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