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- ↑ Deseret News, Oct. 21, 2004
- ↑ http://www.leg.state.vt.us/WorkGroups/FamilyCommission/Appendix%20E.pdf Text of Stewart's statements on marriage.
- ↑ http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol31_No1_Stewartonline.pdf Monte Neil Stewart, Marriage Facts, 31 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 313 (2008).
- ↑ Jessie Lamb Stewart, her life. M.N. Stewart. 1984. OL 2427063M.
- ↑ http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/highprofile/documents/United_Families_Amicus_Curiae_Brief.pdf App. for Permission To File Amici Curiae Brief and Amici Curiae Brief of United Families Int'l, Family Watch Int'l, and Family Leader Found. in Support of Resp. State of Calif., In Re Marriage Cases, 183 P.3d 384, 43 Cal.4th 757 (Cal. 2008) (Case No. S147999).
- ↑ Deseret News, Dec. 31, 2013