The headline read, "He Can `Marry' People If Not Distracted By Mouse." The article was about a scam operation that was exposed in Cleveland, Tennessee this past year. The operation ordains ministers for $20 each.

The president of the Huntsville, Alabama, Better Business Bureau decided to check out the operation. She sent in an application and a check for her few-months-old cat. She answered questions truthfully and listed his birthdate as a few months previous. Explaining his call to ministry she wrote, "To make people happy and not hunt birds." She directed friends whom she wrote down as references to admit that the applicant was a cat if they were asked. Sure enough, her cat was officially ordained as a minister of the Gospel. (1)

The church of Jesus Christ has taken a beating in the m…