21.   Though he counsels them, he refuses to marry couples who meet while in prison.

22.   Young married couple drawn to gardening.

23.   But this is different because these couples are getting married anyway.

24.   Hammerman has even married a couple who met on the Internet.

25.   He loves his congregation, counsels young people, marries couples and baptizes babies.

26.   In a small room, with only the immediate family watching, the cleric married the couple.

27.   In many of these cases, one of the persons was reclassified as someone of the opposite sex, creating an opposite sex married couple.

28.   Instead, he wore his referee shirt as he married the couple.

29.   Lipponen, a Social Democrat who left the Evangelical Lutheran Church during his student days, rejoined it earlier this month so that a minister could marry the couple.

30.   Mbeki made the announcement in Pretoria, saying that the couple had been married by the chief magistrate of Johannesburg.