Foreigners have their views, but if he were American he would know that the US government had already moved against church imposed polygamy.
The LDS bowed to the state when it came to their wackadoo teaching on polygamy. That’s on them. But there are many faiths that will never buy into whatever impossibility the state puts forth as its ever-evolving take on marriage. Just like Baptists won’t stop baptizing or Catholics won’t stop private confession, no matter what the state happens to think of the practices at any one time.
And I don’t care who says it, foreigner or not, the state doesn’t define marriage. Anywhere. Sometimes the definition it used coincided with the real definition, sometimes it doesn’t. For some faiths, the state’s definition hasn’t been legit for a long time. It’s just that ‘gay marriage’ is being framed as some sort of civil right, and civil divorce and remarriage hasn’t. Yet.
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