United States Supreme Court (1878) rendered its opinion on the case of Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145, 165 (1878). The same men that passed the act creating religious freedom in Virginia, also passed very strict laws against polygamy and sexual immorality, as documented in the Supreme Court's decision of 1878:
<It is a significant fact that on the 8th of December, 1788, after the passage of the act establishing religious freedom, and after the convention of Virginia had recommended as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States the declaration in a bill of rights that "all men have an equal, natural, and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience,"[that] the legislature of that State substantially enacted the...death penalty...[for polygamy].> 1878US001
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Endnotes:
1878US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Supreme Court, 1878, Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145, 165 (1878).