The act was designed to target the Mormon practice of plural marriage and the property dominance of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Utah Territory. The measure had no funds allocated for enforcement, and Lincoln chose not to enforce this law; instead Lincoln gave Brigham Young tacit permission to ignore the Morrill Act in exchange for not becoming involved with the Civil War.[2]
The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act was amended in 1882 by the Edmunds Act, and then again in 1887 by the Edmunds–Tucker Act. The act was repealed in 1978.
Can you say “unconstitutional”? Marriage has always been a religious issue, not a state issue and why Lincoln never enforced it but instead made exception for the LDS. It's time to get the govt out of the bedroom once and for all as the founders intended it to be. But this does stop at relationships between a man & a woman when done legally according to Scripture as God has had laws against homosexuality since HE created man.