Little (or BIG) history lesson: In the 1885 Utah Territory case of Murphy v. Ramsey, the US Supreme Court recognized the fundamental importance of the traditional institution of marriage: "Every person who has a husband or wife living...and marries another...is guilty of polygamy, and shall be punished...For certainly no legislation can be supposed more wholesome and necessary in the founding of a Commonwealth fit to take rank as one of the coordinate States of the Union, then that which seeks to establish it on the basis of an idea of the family, as consisting in and springing from the union for life of one man and one woman in the holy estate of matrimony; the sure foundation of all that is stable and noble in our civilization the best guaranty of that reverent morality which is the source of all beneficent progress in social and political improvement." Let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife the affection dure her, and likewise also the wife to the husband...1 Corinthians 7:2-3 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband...Ephesians 5:31-33 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of live, that your prayers may not be hindered...1 Peter 3:7
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:02:07 +0000
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