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R EPORT. : OF THB (Committee THE UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION i FOR PROTECTING THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF UNITARIANS, TO THE GENERAL 3MEETING, Heldr at the London Tavern, on Thursday, June 3, 1-819. ^ ^^
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^ Although , by the Resolution of the Meeting in which this Association
originated , the members of the present Committee continue an office till the General Meeting of 1820 , they conceive it to be their duty to give apt , account , in the mean time , to the members of the Association , of the matters which have occupied their consideration during the short interval which has elapsed since their appointment .
The objects to which the Committee of this Association can be called upon to direct their attention , must of course be very uncertain in their occurrence . The cases in which they may have to afford their assistance
and support to resist aggression , will ( it is to be hoped ) seldom occur , and the propriety of endeavours to enlarge the limits of religious freedom , must depend , for the most park , on the contingency of opportunities favourable to exertion .
The only matter of public interest , in which the Committee have hitherto felt themselves called upon by the general wish to interfere , is the present state of the Marriage law as it more peculiarly affects Unitarian Dissenters ; and they have thought the present a fit time for the agitation of the question * On investigating the subject , they have found that the grievance complained of is one comparatively of irery modern origin ;—that prior to the Marriage Act , which was passed only 66 years ago , all Dissenters were legally entitled to the celebration of marriage as a ceremony , in the manner most consonant to tfceir particular opinions , so as the legal requisites of a contract binding- on the parties were preserved ; - * tbat they have , therefore , now only to ask for a restoration of the rights which have been suspended b y the operation of an act which it is evident was never intended to infringe on religious liberty ; and art * , at any rate , entitled to claim that the service in which they are required to join , should not be one totally repugnant to * heir feelings and opinions . It appears to the Committee indw-
R Eport. : Of Thb (Committee The Unitarian Association I For Protecting The Civil Rights Of Unitarians, To The General 3meeting, Heldr At The London Tavern, On Thursday, June 3, 1-819. ^ ^^
R EPORT . : OF THB ( Committee THE UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION i FOR PROTECTING THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF UNITARIANS , TO THE GENERAL 3 MEETING , Heldr at the London Tavern , on Thursday , June 3 , 1-819 . ^ ^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 3, 1819, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1712/page/1/
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