US President: "sanctity of marriage the corner stone of American society and civilization"

The Committee to Defend the Natural Family ^ | July 6, 2011 | William J. Federer

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American Minute with Bill Federer

July 6

A decade prior to the Civil War there were two major political
parties in the United States: Democrats, favoring freedom of choice to
own slaves; and Whigs, wanting a big tent party.

In Ripon, Wisconsin, anti-slavery activists met for the first time on
February 28, 1854, then held their first State Convention in Jackson,
Michigan, JULY 6, 1854.

This new political party believed marriage should be one man and one
woman.

Naming their party "Republican," their chief plank was "to
prohibit...those twin relics of barbarism: polygamy and slavery."

Republican President Ulysses S. Grant stated December 4, 1871:

"In Utah there still remains a remnant of barbarism, repugnant to
civilization, to decency, and to the laws of the United
States...Neither polygamy nor any other violation of existing statutes
will be permitted...They will not be permitted to violate the laws
under the cloak of religion."

On December 7, 1875, President Grant stated:

"In nearly every annual message...I have called attention to
the...scandalous condition of affairs existing in the Territory of
Utah, and have asked for definite legislation to correct it. That
polygamy should exist in a free, enlightened, and Christian country,
without the power to punish so flagrant a crime against decency and
morality, seems preposterous...As an institution polygamy should be
banished from the land...I deem of vital importance to....drive out
licensed immorality, such as polygamy and the importation of women for illegitimate purposes."

Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes stated, December 1, 1879:

"Polygamy is condemned as a crime by the laws of all civilized
communities throughout the world."

President Hayes stated December 6, 1880:

"The sanctity of marriage and the family relation are the corner
stone of our American society and civilization."

Republican President Chester Arthur stated, December 6, 1881:

"For many years the Executive...has urged the necessity of stringent
legislation for the suppression of polygamy...this odious crime, so
revolting to the moral and religious sense of Christendom."

Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison Waite, appointed by Republican
Ulysses S. Grant, rendered the Murphy v. Ramsey, 1885, decision:

"Every person who has a husband or wife living...and marries
another...is guilty of polygamy, and shall be punished...No
legislation can be supposed more wholesome and necessary in the
founding of a free, self-governing commonwealth...than that which
seeks to establish it on the basis of the idea of the family, as
consisting in and springing from the union for life of one man and one
woman in the holy estate of matrimony."

President John Quincy Adams wrote in Essay on Turks, 1827:

"Mohammed poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by
degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of
polygamy."

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field, appointed by Republican
President Abraham Lincoln, rendered the Davis v. Beason, 1890,
decision:

"Bigamy and polygamy are crimes by the laws of all civilized and
Christian countries...They...destroy the purity of the marriage
relation...degrade woman and debase man...There have been sects whichdenied...there should be any marriage tie, and advocated promiscuousintercourse of the sexes as prompted by the passions of its
members...Should a sect of either of these kinds ever find its way
into this country, swift punishment would follow."

Justice Stephen Field continued:

"The constitutions of several States, in providing for religious
freedom, have declared expressly that such freedom shall not be
construed to excuse acts of licentiousness."

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The people of the United States sure thought Congress had the legislative power to enforce one man, one woman marriage prior to this corrupt modern era.

Four states, Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah and Idaho were only allowed into the Union on the condition that they would forever foreswear plural marriage.

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There was a time when people understood the difference between what was right and what was perversion, and they didn’t tolerate perverts harassing them with their convoluted reasoning and demagoguery. Those enlightened times are over, but homosexuality, brutality, polygamy, and other forms of human and cultural degradation are still wrong.

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Indeed.

[GladesGuru]

In terms of egregious hypocrisy, Obama talking about marriage would seem to personify hypocricy, or so Larry Sinclair would have us believe.

So, who Ya gonna believe? The Moslim, Manseurian Candidate, or the queer who sold drugs and sex to Obama?

Questions, questions ......

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They knew then that Holy Matrimony was the standard and that Adultery in any form was to be Abhorred.

Today's states do not recognize this to their peril.

Something about that Pesky Phrase "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery".

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God always has the first, and the last, word.