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Polygamists urged to abjure child marriage
Two large groups have publicly said that they don't approve marrying underage girls, the Deseret Morning News reported.
"I think it's important to have people publicly state that they're not going to marry underage girls," Paul Murphy, coordinator of the Safety Net Committee, said Wednesday. "I think it's also important that people will be held accountable for their words."
Polygamous marriages aren't legally binding in the United States. But churches can perform marriage ceremonies involving multiple partners as long as everyone involved is at least 18.
The Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints recently released a statement pledging in the future to avoid child marriages. The church's head, Warren Jeffs, was convicted of forcing a teenager to marry her cousin and Texas authorities raided the group's YFZ Ranch and seized hundreds of children, although they were later forced to return them to their parents.
The Apostolic United Brethren issued a similar statement in May.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International.
This news arrived on: 06/20/2008
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06-21-2008 00:47
miriamjewett wrote:
polygamists
Another group giving Christ a bad name!
A minor in a union with an adult isn't new. Truth be told, it happens all over the world, no matter what religious beliefs. The practice is as old as the Bible.
I am glad that most of our society thinks that underage unions with adults is morally wrong- it IS obscene and exploitive to the minor.
Nobody wins, expecially the children.
A minor in a union with an adult isn't new. Truth be told, it happens all over the world, no matter what religious beliefs. The practice is as old as the Bible.
I am glad that most of our society thinks that underage unions with adults is morally wrong- it IS obscene and exploitive to the minor.
Nobody wins, expecially the children.
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