Mormons: For Time & Eternity

In most Christian faiths, a couple is wed until death do them part. But a Mormon marriage performed in the temple "seals" a couple for "time and eternity." The reason is that Mormons view every wedding as performed in the image of the first marriage, in which Adam and Eve were wed by God be fore they were banished from the Garden of Eden and made subject to death.

Last week in the soaring Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, George Scott Romney, 26, eldest son of Michigan's Governor George Romney, took part in his religion's most solemn rites when...

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