Do you *believe*!?!

There is, in a mall in Kentucky, a taxidermy bear, which, it is claimed, is the actual Cocaine Bear. The owners claim that the bear has the power to officiate legally binding weddings, due to Kentucky's marriage laws. This is only partially true. The bear does not have the ability to solemnize weddings, but the state of Kentucky cannot *invalidate* weddings performed by unqualified persons, if the parties being married believe that the person marrying them has the authority to do so.

You can cite this the next time someone tells you that *believing* in something makes it so ...