secular celebrants

A secular organization is challenging the state’s requirement that marriages be solemnized by clergy or elected officials. The Center for Inquiry Inc. and two Grand Rapids residents trained as secular celebrants are suing Kent County Clerk Lisa Posthumus Lyons. They say non-religious couples are left to having marriages solemnized either by clergy, or a small […]

I am now one of two plaintiffs in a lawsuit we filed yesterday in the U.S. Court for the Western District of Michigan. That suit seeks to force the state of Michigan to allow humanist secular celebrants like me (certified and everything) to officiate and solemnize weddings for those who want sch an officiant. This