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To: ansel12; All
The date was 1780, the Continental Congress ""The first national pension legislation for widows was a Continental Congress resolution of August 24, 1780"".

Thanks for the reference. That's good information.

However, the resolution doesn't officially attempt to define marriage imo.

61 posted on 07/27/2013 8:39:11 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

They had to have a definition for what they accepted as a legal marriage, they did not merely accept individual definitions and start sending them a pension.

Today the feds do recognize gay marriage in the military, federal employment, and immigration, and all states will accept gay marriage, just as all states accept legal common law marriages, although all but about 9 refuse to allow them to be formed within their own boundaries.


62 posted on 07/27/2013 8:54:02 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Santorum appeared on CBS and pronounced George Zimmerman guilty of murder, first degree. March-2012)
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