Clerical Imposture

This story is the type of imposture that shocks me for its brazenness, in a similar way that the Presidential State Dinner crashers, pictured here with Joe Biden, shocked much of the United States last November. Is impersonating a religious officiant more grievous than pretending you've been invited to a White House function, or are they more or less equivalent? Do we revere religious events in a similar way to government ceremonies? Perhaps these crashers are living the American Dream, which imagines that a person can become anything he or she wants to be; perhaps we must amend the American Dream to include pretending to become anything he or she wants to be but can't legitimately become.