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plural marriage

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plural marriage
n.
See polygamy.


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The locals are not very comfortable with outsiders, with the towns' practice of plural marriages and history of sexual assault charges, of which the group's leader Warren Jeffs was convicted two years ago, landing them under the scrutiny of police.
Eventually becoming the third president of the Mormon Church, he presided over an expanding Mormon colonization, receiving visions and revelations in his own right with respect to leading the Mormon Church during continued troubled times, and leaving a legacy that would include revelations that would foster fundamentalist schisms over the theological practice of plural marriage (polygamy) that continue to this day.
Starr argued that gay marriages were an analog to plural marriages in so much as it might be “unfair” for those wishing to enter either union but they remained unlawful in the eyes of the law.
 
 
 
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