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To: Gondring
This road started the moment government started butting into the personal religious concern known as marriage.

It was landmark U.S. Supreme Court precedent Reynolds v. United States in 1878 that made “separation of church and state” a dubiously legitimate point of case law, but more importantly; it confirmed the Constitutionality in statutory regulation of marriage practices.

(See also: Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States, 1890.)

No man can become a law unto himself under the guise of freedom of religion... Marriage is a religious rite, not a civil right...

"We have the right to regulate practice, not belief." (Reynolds)

153 posted on 11/22/2006 1:07:41 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

You're repeating yourself.


154 posted on 11/22/2006 2:26:38 AM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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