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Re: Marriage definition

Posted by Dinah on November 9, 2008, at 20:54:35

In reply to Marriage definition, posted by rayww on November 8, 2008, at 13:16:55

I'm not trying to be difficult or anything. But why limit it to two people?

A fair amount of trouble was caused in my family by the interference of the federal government into legal (at the time) polygamous marriages. My greatgrandparents happened to be children of second wives who were in one stroke of the pen made illegitimate and certainly didn't receive equal inheritances. If the definition of marriage is to be opened up, why limit it to two people? My ancestors had committed three member relationships (both happened to be three member, although I understand there were sometimes more) that seemed to work well enough for them.

It's always kind of bothered me that my poor respectable great great grandmothers had their marriages invalidated when Utah joined the Union. There should have at the very least been a grandfather clause, so to speak.

 

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