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To: fishtank

Congress only allowed Utah, and Idaho, and Arizona, and Oklahoma, into the Union if they would forever foreswear plural marriage.

This move is a direct challenge to the moral natural law basis of our free republic, in more ways than one.


42 posted on 07/12/2011 9:48:29 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The tea party was and is about the right to govern ourselves, according to natural right.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Yes, these states had to ban polygamy to be allowed into the union.

A Supreme Court decision in 1879, I believe, upheld a federal law which banned polygamy in U.S. territories such as Utah. That decision said that it was not a violation of Mormon religious freedom to limit marriage to 1 man and 1 woman.


54 posted on 07/12/2011 10:14:58 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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