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Post by Cadeho on Jan 14, 2003 15:24:48 GMT -5
Ga. Court Strikes Down Unmarried Sex Law
(AP) - The Georgia Supreme Court struck down a 170-year-old law that made it a crime for unmarried people to have sex.
This was the colony for the crooks right? I think they won...
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Post by Cadeho on Jan 14, 2003 15:26:08 GMT -5
Don't let Virginia go that way... we have an iron fist!
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Post by Cadeho on Jan 14, 2003 15:43:04 GMT -5
Wait I'm confused... I thought it was illegal here...
Ga. Court Strikes Down Unmarried Sex Law
Tue Jan 14, 5:35 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!
ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court struck down a 170-year-old law that made it a crime for unmarried people to have sex.
The ruling Monday came in the case of a 16-year-old boy discovered having sex with his girlfriend in the bedroom of her home. The young woman's mother made the discovery.
"Our opinion simply affirms that ... the government may not reach into the bedroom of a private residence and criminalize the private, noncommercial, consensual sexual acts of two persons legally capable of consenting to those acts," Chief Justice Norman Fletcher wrote.
Under Georgia law, the age of consent is 16.
Fletcher also wrote that nothing in the ruling should be read to address parents' rights "to regulate what occurs inside their home, including who enters their house and under what circumstances."
Fornication laws remain on the books in about 10 states and the District of Columbia. Courts have struck down such statutes in Florida, Virginia and New Jersey.
Following his conviction, Jesse McClure, now 17, was ordered to pay a fine and write an essay explaining why he should not have had sex. He wrote that it wasn't the court's business.
"Invading personal privacy just isn't right," McClure said Monday. "It now goes that way for everybody."
In 1998, the state Supreme Court overturned an anti-sodomy law, ruling it violated the Georgia Constitution's guarantee of a right to privacy.
Va did what? Struck down the law or attempts to change it?
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Post by earthangel on Jan 14, 2003 19:23:08 GMT -5
Hey, this isn't the colony for crooks! I live in here! ;D
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Post by Cadeho on Jan 14, 2003 19:24:23 GMT -5
I thought I had read GA was kinda like Australia... something like a prison colony...
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Post by Cadeho on Jan 14, 2003 19:25:28 GMT -5
I don't like the lack or morality being shown there by that action... bad enough there's Freaknik...  |
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Post by earthangel on Jan 14, 2003 19:40:41 GMT -5
Well I will admit, there is more opportunities and pressure to do bad stuff in GA than it is in VA. But America as a whole is losing morals
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Post by Cadeho on Jan 14, 2003 19:44:17 GMT -5
Oh really?! Richmond is like 99% [$| l_lt5] I have learned a lot through the actions of acquaintances on AOL and this is not the city or world I thought I knew...
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Post by Ivory Fair on Jan 14, 2003 23:55:25 GMT -5
Well C, Georgia isn't a prison colony, but it STARTED OUT that way. ;-) (Sorry, since part of my-home town is actually in Georgia, I have to take up for it.) Pretty soon the Tennessee state legislature will repeal the "can't marry your brother/sister" law which will be a pleasant thing for all of the people who were forced to go FAR outside the family boundries and marry their first cousins.  |
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jan 15, 2003 0:15:59 GMT -5
I didn't know they still had Freaknik, Cadeho.
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Post by Cadeho on Jan 15, 2003 0:27:52 GMT -5
I thought I'd learned correctly in history! But I am confused about what this law did.. did they repeal this law or did they make it illegal to have premartial sex? On the news here they said the latter and I thought that's not what the article said. Someone help me!
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 15, 2003 2:44:43 GMT -5
you CANNOT legislate morality -parents need to do that.
is that why they have georgia on my mind?
little feat had a song called oh atlanta got to get back to you!
now that fornication is legal in georgia, ,i can see a booming business in the market with lovely
t shirts sayings like these-
you can now take off your pantsa in atlantsa
i lust her in augusta
i'm busy macon bacon
i plan ah to be her man ah in savannah
let our love be like a fountain on stone mountain
sex flags over georgia
lay down with me in albany
i'm on the pill in rossville
our clothes got losta in valdosta
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Post by Cadeho on Jan 15, 2003 2:58:49 GMT -5
HAHA!!! You've topped yourself! ;D ;D
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 15, 2003 3:20:01 GMT -5
i am way over the top!out of bounds..turnover! ;D
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jan 15, 2003 10:26:31 GMT -5
LOL! ;D
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