"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote:
>"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
>> >> >Not one single adultery law has ever been repealed, but the last
>prosecution
>> >> >under this law was more than half a century ago.
>> >>
>> >> Good.
>> >
>> >Thanks for that admission that you support the "right of women to commit
>> >adultery"--making you an accomplice to a serious crime.
>>>> I admit no such thing. I admit approving that prosecution for
>> adultery is becoming rare. But I remind you that California's law
>> against adultery, that you quote on your website, WAS in fact
>> repealed, and there is no law against adultery in California.
>>No, the law in California has NOT been repealed, which means adultery is
>ILLEGAL.
It has. The text that you quote from the 1911 Penal Code is nowhere
to be found in the current California Penal Code, which is available
on the Web in its entirety. ALL sexual activities between *consenting
adults* were decriminalized in 1975 and 1976, including your favorite
bugaboo of sodomy. Every last one. If you look at section 286 of the
Penal Code, it refers ONLY to sodomy (as specifically defined) with a
*minor*.
I challenge you to find it anywhere in the California penal code
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html
where adultery per se is illegal. You will find the word exactly
once, and it refers only to adultery within the limits of
consanguinity (i.e. incest)
Since you cite on your page that it was a law in 1911, and it is not a
law now, then it unquestionably has been repealed. If you think it
hasn't, then provide a proper citation to the current law, preferably
with a quote of the full text.
>285. Persons being within the degrees of consanguinity within which
>marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who
>intermarry with each other, or who commit fornication or adultery
>with each other, are punishable by imprisonment in the state prison.
>No state law against adultery has ever been repealed, not even in
>Pennsylvania where there was a RUMOR that it was repealed. It's still law
>in Pennsylvania.
Give us a cite for this law, and preferably quote its full text.
I'm not going to search every state for you. I found one site that
said that there are adultery laws in 37 states but did not list them,
which means that adultery is legal in the other 13. Probably, in most
of those states, there was once a law and it has been repealed.
In Virginia, adultery is a class 4 misdemeanor, punishable by a fine
of no more than $250. hardly a "serious crime".
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2269/
is a general reference site on sex laws.
The alt.sex FAQ lists states that had repealed their sodomy laws,
26 states are listed. Another 8 states have had sodomy laws found
unconstitutional to varying degrees.
>By stating "Good" when it's noted that the law is not being upheld, you are
>an accomplice to a CRIME,
False.
>and a serious crime at that.
In your opinion. Not in the eyes of the State of California, where it
is not a crime at all, or the Commonwealth of Virginia, where it is in
the least serious category of misdemeanors.
>It's just as serious
>a crime as murder, which is why it's right next to "You shall not murder" in
>the Ten Commandments.
US laws are not based on the Ten Commandments.
>You might "think" that those who commit adultery shouldn't be punished, but
>unless and until the law IS repealed,
Which it apparently has been in 13 states.
lojbab
