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sweetmelissa · 06-01-2008, 06:22 AM

On the subject of the government intervening for crimes, I think it has been shown throughout history that the government "makes" things illegal just to be able to prosecute. The reason polygamy was made illegal is because the government was afraid of the power that the mormon church was gaining politically at the time. It needed to reign them in and so they withheld statehood until the mormons complied with their new law. Even though it goes against everything that this new country stands for. Religious freedom. If you think you are truly free to practice what you believe then you are "brainwashed".

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sweetmelissa n00blet Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 2 Points: 144.47 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 144.47 Donate	On the subject of the government intervening for crimes, I think it has been shown throughout history that the government "makes" things illegal just to be able to prosecute. The reason polygamy was made illegal is because the government was afraid of the power that the mormon church was gaining politically at the time. It needed to reign them in and so they withheld statehood until the mormons complied with their new law. Even though it goes against everything that this new country stands for. Religious freedom. If you think you are truly free to practice what you believe then you are "brainwashed".