Isn’t it ironic that a country which espouses freedom of religion required a church to change their marraige practice to become a state in that country?
I didn't realize that the Church became a State.
Deseret had to change its practice.
The Latter-day Saints did not like their territorial status. Church leaders and the territorial legislature contiunously pushed for statehood.
Delegates met in 1856, wrote a Constitution and proposed the state of Deseret. Congress did not agree.
In 1872 a constitutional convention drew up a new Constitution, dropping the Deseret name from their petition. When that failed, the state of Deseret ended.