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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Lane3 who wrote (20140)6/1/2006 6:31:40 PM
From: TimF   of 541248
 
I agree, any religious ceremony of marriage shouldn't be the states business (except if its also a legal marriage with a marriage licence).

Apparently the law that was upheld is not just dealing with "spiritual marriages" but any "co-habitation". Which seems rather vague to me. Its not clear if it only deals with cases where a marriage is claimed (either a ceremony is held or people just say they are married), or any case where people live together and have sex, or even cases where non-related adults live together without any known sexual relationship.

Apparently in this particular case the 2nd "wife" was underage, but he was charged with that fact as a separate offense. No need to bring bigamy/polygamy charges up too IMO.

Tim
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