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Questions and answers regarding the subject of marriage
Q. - Why is polygamy against the law in the United States?
Members of Joseph F. Smith's family
including his sons and daughters-- as
well as their own spouses and children
well as their own spouses and children
A. - According to Wikipedia, the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act (37th United States Congress, Sess. 2., ch. 126, 12 Stat. 501) was a federal enactment of the United States Congress that was signed into law on July 8, 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln. The act targeted the Mormon practice of plural marriage and therefore established monogamy as the law of the land.
Q. - Why are same-sex marriages prohibited in some states?
A. - Some religious denominations brand it as being a sin.
Q. What about separation of church and state?
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
--Thomas Jefferson
Legality of same-sex marriage is currently determined by state law, not (yet) federal law, so eventual approval of such unions will be brought about by the slow but steady force of eradicating ignorance through proper education of the nation's citizenry.
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WORD FOR TODAY
monogamy [muh-nog-uh-me]
noun
- marriage with only one person at a time. Compare bigamy, polygamy.
- Zoology the practice of having only one mate.
Born Sep 10, 1949
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I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
--Patrick J. Kennedy
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