"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote:
>State statutes and Constitutions don't just expire. They must be repealed
>or amended, and there's a very specific process for doing that. If this
>process hasn't been followed precisely, it makes no difference what's in a
>"penal code"--the law still stands.
Since the Penal code contains all the laws that still stand, the fact
that it is NOT in the penal code means that the statute was repealed
or amended according to the specific process for doing so. I even
identified the timeframe when it was probably done, because I found
several references to laws passed in California which decriminalized
all forms of sexual activity between two consenting adults in 1976.
There was an earlier amendment to the laws that went into effect July
1, 1944. The only reference to that date that I found, however, was
AB 1555 in 2001, which also refers to other offenses that were
decriminalized on January 1, 1976, which matches with the date given
in others sources for decriminalizing sex between consenting adults.
The online California law library does not go back to 1976, so it
would take looking in an older law library. But since I was a voting
resident of California in 1976, I remembered there being such a law
passed.
>Not one single state, nor the federal government, ever repealed its
>statutes which make adultery a crime.
False.
>Do you know why? Not a single
>politician in the land wants to be known as the man who repealed one of the
>Ten Commandments.
The Ten Commandments were not repealed. But they are not the laws of
California.
lojbab
