Nate Oman | April 10, 2009
A while ago I was reading some sermons from the 1880s in the Journal of Discourses. The 1880s, of course, is the decade when the anti-polygamy crusades were at their most intense. Thousands of Mormons were incarcerated, the Brethren were in hiding from the law much of the time, and every time you [...]
Nate Oman | April 7, 2009
I’ve blogged before about my great, great grandfather who was “called on a mission” by Wilford Woodruff in 1896 to study law at Cornell. 104 years later, I am going to be returning to his old stomping grounds to teach for a semester. I’m looking forward to it. I hear that Ithaca [...]
Nate Oman | April 4, 2009
In the Iowa Supreme Court’s opinion declaring traditional marriage unconstitutional, the justices dealt with the claim that the law was justified because it protected the integrity of the tradition of heterosexual marriage. The opinion states:
A specific tradition sought to be maintained cannot be an important governmental objective for equal protection purposes, however, when the [...]
