Tori Spelling Officiates Same-Sex Marriage As Minister Of First Nation Church

Television star obtains ceremonial ordination online through unique service that also permits couples to obtain marriage license without regard to sexual orientation.

Make that Reverend Tori Spelling. The popular television actress has received her ceremonial ordination and now proudly wears the title of Reverend before her name.

According to Tori's blog on MySpace.com, she served as officiant at the marriage ceremony of a same-sex couple at Chateau La Rue, the Fallbrook, Calif., bed-and-breakfast owned by her and husband Dean McDermott, featured on the hit Oxygen TV reality series Tori & Dean Inn Love.

"I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right....Reverend Tori Spelling! I did it last week online and my official certificate is in the mail. I was so honored when the couple asked me to officiate. We did (the ceremony) on the front steps of the Chateau as forty of their friends looked on, seated in a lounge-like atmosphere. It was so beautiful as I united Tony and Dex as life partners in love. They wrote their own beautiful vows and there was so much love surrounding them," Tori blogged, adding, "true Love knows no gender."

Spelling has been legally licensed and ordained as a ceremonial Minister and Officiant by First Nation Church. First Nation Church is a traditions-based Native American religious organization founded upon the indisputable principle that each individual has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and faith. This right extends to the freedom to have or to adopt a faith or belief of his or her choice, and the freedom to observe his or her religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching either individually or in community with others and in public or private.

It is First Nation Church's steadfast belief that love, not law, is the basis and the foundation of marriage. The Church also believes that no government should be allowed to legislate for or against any person based upon their gender, race, sexual orientation or religious belief. First Nation Church, its members and ministers believe that marriage is a covenant between two adults and their God, based upon their love for one another. The Church believes that love for each other, for nature and for all things created by God materializes from the heart, not from legislative bodies.

First Nation Church offers the opportunity for any person of good heart and conscience to be ordained as a ceremonial Minister and Officiant for all rites as prescribed in the Church's Marriage Laws. The Church also grants marriage certificates, which are available from the Church and through its Ministers. The Church's ministers hail from all walks of life, including notable political figures, powerful Washington attorneys and well-known celebrities.

Although more and more states are passing laws recognizing that same-sex couples should have the same rights as any other couple, many more do not, making First Nation Church's alternative marriage certificate a perfect compromise solution.

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