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Originally Posted by hoyacoug
You are starting to sound a bit like Bill Clinton! It depends on what your definition of "a" is.
According to dictionary.com:
"A"- Used before nouns and noun phrases that denote a single but unspecified person or thing: a region; a person.
Key words being "a single."
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Even if this is true, nothing in the proposed language prohibits a series of simultaneous marriages as long as each one is between a man and a woman.
For the record, however, I don't think that the First PResidency is likely to be relying on this sort of lawyer-ish interpretational technique to take the position that it has. Instead, I think it is more likely that they are urging support for broader reasons.