Item Detail
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13989
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Journal Article
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English
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Harmer-Dionne, Elizabeth
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Once a Peculiar People : Cognitive Dissonance and the Suppression of Mormon Polygamy as a Case Study Negating the Belief-Action Distinction
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Stanford Law Review
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April 1998
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50
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no.4
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1998
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1295-1347
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Polygamy is not part of today's Church practice, but it certainly was a part of historical Mormonism. The author argued that suppression of religious practice, as was done with legal pressure against the Mormon Church, actually changes belief which comes dangerously close to violating the Free Exercise Clause
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