"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
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> "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Not one single adultery law has ever been repealed, but the last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 repealed, and there is no law against adultery in California.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No, the law in California has NOT been repealed, which means adultery is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 law now, then it unquestionably has been repealed.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No state law against adultery has ever been repealed, not even in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Pennsylvania where there was a RUMOR that it was repealed.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
If you cannot produce the date, author, and bill number of the statute which
repealed a single state statute like the adultery statute, then it has not
been repealed, and you know it.
And you cannot do that.
But the simple fact that *you*, a boneheaded "liberal", "think" that
adultery law is meaningless, or should be ignored, or is a minor event, is
just one more piece of evidence that you're a total moron who doesn't even
deserve the protection of the US Constitution.
It also puts you in a very small minority group, once again, since even
Gallup shows that only a pitiful 9% minority agree with you.
John Knight
