[ExI] Same Sex Marriage (was Re: Call To Libertarians)

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 05:33:47 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/3/1 Darren Greer <darren.greer3 at gmail.com>:
> Moreover, post-mortem marriage does not refer to the necrophilia, but
> the ability of, say, a betrothed girl to get married with a dead
> soldier when he had expressed an explicit enough intention to this
> effect prior to his death (this used to be possible under German law,
> e.g.).

This can and does happen in LDS temple marriages (called sealing).
It's been the case for a long time. I don't know if the civil
authorities honor such marriages. For example, I doubt that a widow
would receive warrior survivor payments in such a case.

-Kelly



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