Marriage, Monogamy and Polygamy on the Basis of Divine Law: An Open Letter to the Massachusetts Members of Congress by One of Their Constituents, with Observations on the Opinion of the Supreme Court in Reynolds Vs. United States, 98 U.S. Supreme Court ReportsJames Campbell, 1882 - 76 Seiten |
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... believe in their revelations , and God forbid that I should be understood as attempting to justify polygamy . But for all that , if I knew that the press , supposing it to notice this little book , would abuse me unmercifully , and if ...
... believe in their revelations , and God forbid that I should be understood as attempting to justify polygamy . But for all that , if I knew that the press , supposing it to notice this little book , would abuse me unmercifully , and if ...
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... believe that our Saviour called it adultery . " ( Vol . ii . , p . 151. ) " The ambition and avarice of the clergy in the Middle Ages laid the rest of the world under contribution in the business of marriage , made it into a sacrament ...
... believe that our Saviour called it adultery . " ( Vol . ii . , p . 151. ) " The ambition and avarice of the clergy in the Middle Ages laid the rest of the world under contribution in the business of marriage , made it into a sacrament ...
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... may or may not cohabit with his different wives , will be left , I believe , entirely to him and to them according to their views of duty . " ( pp . 553 , 554. ) The Calcutta Missionary Conference , consisting of mission- aries of 23.
... may or may not cohabit with his different wives , will be left , I believe , entirely to him and to them according to their views of duty . " ( pp . 553 , 554. ) The Calcutta Missionary Conference , consisting of mission- aries of 23.
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... believe , by their Scriptures , the Old Testament . It is recognized in all the courts of India , native and English . The laws of the British Parlia- ment recognize polygamy among all these classes , where the marriage connection has ...
... believe , by their Scriptures , the Old Testament . It is recognized in all the courts of India , native and English . The laws of the British Parlia- ment recognize polygamy among all these classes , where the marriage connection has ...
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... believe that the Almighty has commanded this system for the redemption of the race . The prevalent system of marriage is a failure . Under it both men and women feel themselves forced to commit acts which the laws make crimes . Woman ...
... believe that the Almighty has commanded this system for the redemption of the race . The prevalent system of marriage is a failure . Under it both men and women feel themselves forced to commit acts which the laws make crimes . Woman ...
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Seite 68 - ... it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order ; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict...
Seite 57 - Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices. Suppose one believed that human sacrifices were a necessary part of religious worship, would it be seriously contended that the civil government under which he lived could not interfere to prevent a sacrifice?
Seite 68 - ... the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which in common with his fellow-citizens he has a natural right...
Seite 69 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Seite 67 - ... Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do...
Seite 68 - ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor, whose morals he would make his pattern...
Seite 68 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he, being of course judge of that tendency, will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of...
Seite 74 - Marriage, while from its very nature a sacred obligation is nevertheless, in most civilized nations, a civil contract, and usually regulated by law. Upon it society may be said to be built, and out of its fruits spring social relations and social obligations and duties, with which government is necessarily required to deal.
Seite 75 - Suppose one believed that human sacrifices were a necessary part of religious worship, would it be seriously contended that the civil government under which he lived could not interfere to prevent a sacrifice? Or if a wife religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice?
Seite 57 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.