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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCriminalizing 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.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)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)it suits them. Scalia was activist, going where the nation had never gone before, when it suited him.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)GOTV 2016!
It matters if you vote.
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)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)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)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.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)crimes and mental disorders?
tblue37
(65,403 posts)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!
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)This is just one reason why I will never cast my vote for anyone who announces their profound faith.