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Is adultery illegal?
Should it be? Why?
Is adultery illegal?
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Is adultery illegal?
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Re: Is adultery illegal?
Post #3The state issues "Marriage Licenses". Do those licenses include any contracts?
Is marriage a legally binding contract?
If so, then the laws associated with binding contracts would apply.
If not, then state marriages are pretty meaningless aren't they?
I mean, they might be good for tax purposes, or other financial benefits, but as far as being any good for the actual "marriage" itself they would be pretty meaningless.
In short, wouldn't adultery be the breaking of a marriage "contract"? Unless that marriage contract specifically stated that it is "open" to extramarital sex.
But that brings up the question, "Would extramarital sex even qualify as adultery in an open-sex marriage?"
Clearly it wouldn't qualify from any legal perspective since the marriage contract doesn't forbid it.
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Don't tempt me!
What tends to be forgotten is our laws tended to be based on canon law before we had parliamentary systems and secular law making and the ones administering it in those early feudal systems and societies was the Church itself and so things like this must have been almost sacrosanct. So much so that the Catholic Church even today will uphold this standard as virtually non negotiable and quasi illegal. Its was not actually 'illegal' at any time, even in Jesus's day. It was just a means of deciding grounds for divorce.
Its the other side of it that needs addressing by the Church and that is believers should not be excluded as they are now when they are divorced and are able to remarry in the church if they want to..I think the Pope is trying to alter this.
I can't believe we are even discussing this in the 21st century?
What tends to be forgotten is our laws tended to be based on canon law before we had parliamentary systems and secular law making and the ones administering it in those early feudal systems and societies was the Church itself and so things like this must have been almost sacrosanct. So much so that the Catholic Church even today will uphold this standard as virtually non negotiable and quasi illegal. Its was not actually 'illegal' at any time, even in Jesus's day. It was just a means of deciding grounds for divorce.
Its the other side of it that needs addressing by the Church and that is believers should not be excluded as they are now when they are divorced and are able to remarry in the church if they want to..I think the Pope is trying to alter this.
I can't believe we are even discussing this in the 21st century?
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I don't think it's illegal, but certainly lacks moral standards for most. When I took my vows with my husband, I am sure that we meant our marriage to be mutually exclusive to other sexual relations. Besides....I am just way too tired for an affair!
I don't think it's illegal, but certainly lacks moral standards for most. When I took my vows with my husband, I am sure that we meant our marriage to be mutually exclusive to other sexual relations. Besides....I am just way too tired for an affair!
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Actually, PN, adultery IS illegal in 21 states -- a misdemeanor in some and a felony in others. Those are holdovers of some of the "Blue Laws" (any puritanical law that forbids certain practices, especially drinking or working on Sunday, dancing, etc) that are gradually being phased out and are widely ignored (often not prosecuted in living memory)Peds nurse wrote: I don't think it's illegal,
Marriage is generally considered a civil contract that may or may not include fidelity clauses. Morals are, as always, in the eye of the beholder. Some couples regard an "open marriage" as being moral for them -- and who are we to say otherwise (for them)?Peds nurse wrote: but certainly lacks moral standards for most. When I took my vows with my husband, I am sure that we meant our marriage to be mutually exclusive to other sexual relations.
Tis an evil male plot to "keep 'em barefoot and pregnant (or perhaps too tired)"Peds nurse wrote: Besides....I am just way too tired for an affair!
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Re: Is adultery illegal?
Post #7In some places yes; in other places no.Zzyzx wrote: Is adultery illegal?
What do you mean by “should�? Unless you are talking about some kind of objective morality the idea that things “should be� a certain way is meaningless.Zzyzx wrote: Should it be? Why?
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