"A man and a woman"

[MikeWaters]

isn't this a repudiation of polygamy?

What I don't get is that we can repudiate polygamy at the level of an amendment to the Constitution, but we can't apologize for racist statements and acts from church officials?

[Indy Coug]

What "a man and a woman" doesn't specify is:

1. Does it mean that one man can only be married to one woman or vice versa?

2. Does it mean that each individual marriage ceremony must include one man and one woman, but that man or woman may still have valid marriages to other spouses and those marriages each individually involved one man and one woman?

C'mon, let's hear from the teeming masses of lawyers on this site.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by Adam

For your second definition to be right the term "marriage" in the Church's statements would have to mean only the actual ceremony. I think that is a big stretch.

So you're going to argue intent? Certainly there is no explicit, restrictive language that would preclude #2 from being the case.