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from RNS:

"What’s the surest way conservative pastors can avoid ever having to perform government-mandated gay marriages? According to one prominent religious journal and a growing number of ministers, the answer is not to perform any civil marriages at all.

"First Things, a conservative religious publication, has launched a movement encouraging pastors to refuse to perform marriages as representatives of the state. A signing statement called 'The Marriage Pledge' has been posted to their website where ministers can affix their names electronically ..."

http://jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com/2014/11/19/dont-conservative-pastors-vow-perform-government-marriages/#sthash.PxPoWaZH.dpuf

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I can see a lot of Christians having the religious wedding and then not bothering to seek the official marriage certificate. Which irks me. That is how the polygamous mormons handle their multiple wives. And how they get away with having polygamy.

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My husband said something similar to me. That he would ask the couple to go to a justice of the peace for a civil ceremony, and then he would perform the ceremony of marriage as a covenant between the couple and God, only if the covenant of marriage was according to scripture.

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Marriage is just a bit of paper anyway. It's the covenant with God that counts.

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It is time to stand on the word of God, for it is a sure foundation. Just stand fast like the Hebrew children who refused to worship idols.

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I can see a lot of Christians having the religious wedding and then not bothering to seek the official marriage certificate. Which irks me. That is how the polygamous mormons handle their multiple wives. And how they get away with having polygamy.

Not just Mormons but Muslims as well.

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I can see a lot of Christians having the religious wedding and then not bothering to seek the official marriage certificate. Which irks me. That is how the polygamous mormons handle their multiple wives. And how they get away with having polygamy.

Not just Mormons but Muslims as well.

 

 

 

I only know about mormon polygamy in my state and how they get away with it. I didnt know muslim polygamy happened in the us.

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I can see a lot of Christians having the religious wedding and then not bothering to seek the official marriage certificate. Which irks me. That is how the polygamous mormons handle their multiple wives. And how they get away with having polygamy.

Not just Mormons but Muslims as well.

 

 

I only know about mormon polygamy in my state and how they get away with it. I didnt know muslim polygamy happened in the us.

They usually have one wife in the US and up to three more from whence they came.

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