Talk:Blessing Ceremony

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400 million couples blessed in 2004? Wouldn't that be 800 million people... or something like 12% of the world's population at the time? Coupled with the 1998-99 "360 million" blessing, this'd mean about 25% of the planet had been married by the Unification Church. How is this possible?69.9.16.28 21:34, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

The Blessings were religious ceremonies - not legal rituals. Rev. Moon had no legal standing to "perform a marriage" in a legal sense. Besides, wouldn't he get writer's cramp signing thousands of marriage licenses?

Everyone, without exception, had to "get married" according to the laws of their own country (either before or after the Blessing ceremony). --Uncle Ed 14:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

It is possible for the Blessing ceremony to also be a wedding ceremony. The couple just needs to get a marriage license first. The pastor of our local UC does this quite often. I guess the laws vary state to state. The hundreds of millions of couples Blessed mostly means a Blessing was given to their already existing marriages, not that they all were married in the UC or are members. Steve Dufour 18:39, 10 September 2006 (UTC)