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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 04:42 PM Feb 2016

Criminalizing Private Sexual Practices Is NOT A Place We Want To Go. It's Completely Nuts.

In the future the churches through civil and federal law will determine how you express your sexuality if things do not change. The anti abortion and contraception groups want to make sure that what you do with a loved on is controlled. And laws like Michigan just passed are ONLY the beginning of the assault on privacy.

Even though these laws are anti gay they really effect everyone. Make certain practices a criminal offense is not really enforceable. And these laws will NOT end with what the GOP and it allies did in Michigan recently.

There was a time when fornication, adultery, living together and other domestic situations were illegal. You could be in court over such activities. Do we really want to go back to such a time.

In the end the GOP and it allies want to make divorce almost impossible or even illegal should they get the power they want. "Covenant" marriage is their goal for everyone whether they say it or not. Much of their policy on sexuality is hidden but it does exist.

In the end who determines what is allowable? Will it be a priest, pastor, imam, or other clergy who sets the rules? Whose religion will prevail.

Legislators who support this madness should be run out of public office. What they want is so un American and insane.

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Criminalizing Private Sexual Practices Is NOT A Place We Want To Go. It's Completely Nuts. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2016 OP
Uh...Lawrence v Texas still applies. jeff47 Feb 2016 #1
Even Though SCOTUS Ruled They Plan To Ignore The Law & Pass These Laws Anyway. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2016 #3
SCOTUS conservatives are activist when Hortensis Feb 2016 #7
That's what happens when Republicans win elections. MineralMan Feb 2016 #2
They may not be enforceable but MuseRider Feb 2016 #4
Too Many Americans Are Ignorant Of The Extremist Agenda On Sexuality. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2016 #5
We are constantly watching here MuseRider Feb 2016 #6
This is looney n/t MosheFeingold Feb 2016 #8
Ever notice how often things that are "sinful" frequently morph into MindPilot Feb 2016 #9
Been there, done that. In fact, such laws were the norm until fairly recently, and I think they are tblue37 Feb 2016 #10
Ugh. malokvale77 Feb 2016 #11
 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
3. Even Though SCOTUS Ruled They Plan To Ignore The Law & Pass These Laws Anyway.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 04:50 PM
Feb 2016

The GOP model is to pass these bad laws anyway and hold out for a court that will find them valid. They want all 9 justices to be theocrats like the Spanish Inquisition.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. SCOTUS conservatives are activist when
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 05:13 PM
Feb 2016

it suits them. Scalia was activist, going where the nation had never gone before, when it suited him.

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
4. They may not be enforceable but
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 04:51 PM
Feb 2016

here in Kansas we still have the sodomy laws on the books. Even though it is illegal to enforce the law because of Lawrence v Texas, those enforcing it use it to intimidate. There have been several cases of "arrests" over this followed by a "my bad, didn't know it was legal now" excuse.

I remember the days when pregnant girls were hustled off to have babies so no one would know. Babies were adopted out without the mothers permission because her parents or the church took care of that.


This is creepy stuff you are talking about.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
5. Too Many Americans Are Ignorant Of The Extremist Agenda On Sexuality.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 04:56 PM
Feb 2016

These religious conservatives are in a rage because they cannot control people's lives. And people's sexual activity pisses them off even more. The Michigan laws are just the beginning and where does it all stop. To think that these extremists cannot win is ignoring the problem. Women's reproductive rights are being eroded by he day. And we can see it with TRAP laws, personhood laws, et al that are moving forward.

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
6. We are constantly watching here
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 05:04 PM
Feb 2016

and ready at all times to jump on the legislature when this stuff comes up. It has been like this for years. Anyway, we are ready for them and have a force ready to make a noise when it happens. So far we are doing pretty well with this but you just never know when all hell will break loose. Right now our state is in such a mess you would think there were other things to deal with but then wham they hit you with another RFRA bill. When other states do these things ours will be waiting for it's turn. It is a daily worry.

tblue37

(65,403 posts)
10. Been there, done that. In fact, such laws were the norm until fairly recently, and I think they are
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 06:50 PM
Feb 2016

still on the books in some places. The GOP is trying to roll back all sorts of rights that have barely had time to be exercised. Heck, when I was a young woman, they stll had miscegenation laws in many states!

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