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Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Sex with Corpses
Reuters ^ | 9-10-04

Posted on 09/10/2004 5:00:44 PM PDT by Indy Pendance

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts.

"Nobody knows the full extent of the problem. ... But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has studied California cases involving allegations of necrophilia.

"Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering. But if they worked in a mortuary in the first place, prosecutors couldn't even charge them with that," Ochoa said.

The state's first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee.

Lawmakers revived the bill this year after an unsuccessful prosecution of a man found in a San Francisco funeral home drunk and passed out on top of an elderly woman's corpse.

The new law makes sex with a corpse a felony punishable by up to eight years in prison.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: arnold; arnoldlegacy; disorders; necrophilia; paraphilias; sexualorientation
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To: Chad Fairbanks
In California, this is an orgy movie:


81 posted on 09/10/2004 5:23:46 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: Indy Pendance
Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California

Someone needs to tell that to the guy who married my ex wife.

82 posted on 09/10/2004 5:23:57 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Indy Pendance
Not to worry some liberal California judge will throw it out as a violation of the constitutional right of corpses.

He'll say they where not allowed to vote on it. We know they have the right to vote because those in Chicago always vote democratic in the presidential election.

83 posted on 09/10/2004 5:24:02 PM PDT by mississippi red-neck
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To: orangelobster

Back about 20 years ago, my wife (who was just my girlfriend at the time) rented a house from some people who owned the mortuary next door. It was a family-owned business. One of the "boys" of the family (who was about 45-50 at the time) lived in the basement of the mortuary. He was REALLY creepy, and had never been married...Addams family sort of fellow....We always suspected him of being a necrophiliac.


84 posted on 09/10/2004 5:24:03 PM PDT by Renfield (Philosophy chair at the University of Wallamalloo!!)
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To: Swiss

Necrophiliacs were just "born that way" we shouldn't pick on them, it's hate speech!


85 posted on 09/10/2004 5:24:09 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
A prostest sign reads " Keep Bush out of our sex lives".


86 posted on 09/10/2004 5:24:44 PM PDT by rintense (Results matter.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Does that mean that "Theresa" and John can't go to California anymore?


87 posted on 09/10/2004 5:27:18 PM PDT by RecallMoran (Conspire to be right)
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To: Indy Pendance

The Left responds:

http://www.goats.com/archive/980415.html


88 posted on 09/10/2004 5:28:32 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Indy Pendance
Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California

Well, that means we just lost the Morticians vote.

89 posted on 09/10/2004 5:28:49 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("Carl Rove? That Bitch set us up! - Terry 'marion Berry' McCauliff)
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To: Poohbah
Glad to hear at least that state had the decency to get that in writing (although I'm surprised it wasn't without a fight by the ACLU).

Fwiw regarding morality, if the vast majority of Californians have rejected Judeo-Christian morals (what the ACLU or the media would like you to believe... and it could be more true than we want to hear), then why would they stand for a law like that at all?

In fact, once you drop those absolutes... standards of conduct, then Katie bar the door baby! IMO, one thing to point out to folks who think that homosexuality is totally ok, is that you can ask them why isn't necrophelia ok? (Or this 'phelia' or that phelia' because when you have no absolutes then nothing is really 'wrong' anymore).

When the morals are thrown out the window and if the "it feels good do it" way of life is ok because society says so, then who's to say what's wrong anymore about any kind of behavior. If who you are talking with gets repulsed with that argument then point out that given the progression (degradation) of Western civilization ... then by their way of thinking, Michael Jackson could be a trendsetter. Without absolutes... he could be leading edge (perish the thought!)

A complete disregard for God's ways degrades us humans quickly turn towards animalistic behavior (and even worse). Hence a law like this even needing to be written down is a sad testimony to where what our culture has become (as it ought to be obvious to any person with a shred of decency).

90 posted on 09/10/2004 5:30:19 PM PDT by blue jeans
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To: rintense

LoL!


91 posted on 09/10/2004 5:31:34 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Indy Pendance

There goes Billy Bob Thornton's sex life.


92 posted on 09/10/2004 5:34:42 PM PDT by Fintan (Oh...am I supposed to read the article???)
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To: Poohbah
When does the ACLU file for overturning this law, and when does the mayor of San Francisco start issuing marriage certificates to people who want to marry corpses?

The ACLU probably will challenge this. Sick little puppies they are.

93 posted on 09/10/2004 5:36:01 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon
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To: vetvetdoug

.....this means CA Kerry groupie wannabees need to be careful when the candidate visits the state next time.....


94 posted on 09/10/2004 5:37:19 PM PDT by bubbanear
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To: cripplecreek
"Cold Ethel let me sqeeze you in my arms." Alice Cooper back in the day.

If I live til'97,you'll still be waiting in refridgerator heaven

Cause you're cool,you're ice

Cold Ethyl,you're my paradise

95 posted on 09/10/2004 5:38:07 PM PDT by Uncle Meat
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To: Indy Pendance

This is just...well....just DAMN....


96 posted on 09/10/2004 5:38:28 PM PDT by Brytani (A changing mind is a terrible thing to waste - Vote John Kerry)
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To: Indy Pendance
Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California

My exwife bump.

97 posted on 09/10/2004 5:39:29 PM PDT by humblegunner (All your font types are belong to US.)
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To: Indy Pendance
Great news for Mr. Feinstein ... you can quit faking the headaches every night!
98 posted on 09/10/2004 5:40:10 PM PDT by Freedom_Isn't_Free (in fact, it isn't even cheap!)
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To: Indy Pendance

How on earth did a law like this get past the Democrats in California? Were they all passed out on glue??


99 posted on 09/10/2004 5:43:07 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Indy Pendance

The scary thing is that this HAS to become a law?


100 posted on 09/10/2004 5:43:30 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
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