"church" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Because polygamy is illegal and the church renounced the practice more than a century ago, John said that he had been excommunicated.
- The church did not fully renounce the practice of plural marriage until Joseph F. Smith's Second Manifesto of 1904.
- The church officially renounced polygamy in 1890, and excommunicates members who openly practice it.
- Polygamists, whose beliefs derive from tenets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that the church renounced more than a century ago, say they do not believe assurances they will not be prosecuted and now feel less inclined than ever to summon the authorities, even on serious matters.
- In previous correspondence with Davis, Haggis had demanded that the church publicly renounce Proposition 8.
- After the church renounced the practice, Kerr divorced his second wife in 1898.
- But the church did not renounce its actions, and impatience with it is boiling over, conservatives said.
- Until the church renounced its approval of polygamy in 1890, the practice caused decades of cold war, and occasionally armed clashes, with the Federal Government.
- The church renounced polygamy more than a hundred years ago and today treats the practice like a banished relative.
- The church would later renounce this practice, prohibiting the ordination of sexually active homosexuals.
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