Posted on 12/29/2014 8:22:43 AM PST by C19fan
This may seem to be a rather obscure topic, but it popped up while I was reading Helen Smith’s musings on whether or not pornography should be made illegal and the long term, detrimental effects that it can have on marriage. As a subset of that discussion, she touched on David Friedman’s book, Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters. In it, Friedman makes the following observation on prostitution in general and the specific side effects it can have when married men pay for sex outside of marriage. (I specify “men” here only because incidents of women engaging prostitutes are so rare as to be a statistical anomaly. In theory this would apply to either gender.)
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Adultery is definitely illegal under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Yes, but we are not all under ‘military jurisdiction’. Unless that is what is being contemplated.
Bingo. Natural Law in a nutshell.
How about homosexual adultery and our current...President?
The default position is with the lid down. Make them work for it too!
Added bonus, makes it harder for the dog to drink the toilet water.
OTOH, sufficient root-feeding will turn adultery into abrightery.
Let God be the judge on that, not some Democrat appointed judge!
On the other hand, such laws in the past have had unintended results.
Immediately before, and during the life of Jesus, the Romans (yes, those pagan Romans) passed laws against adultery. The reason was that immorality amidst the wealthy patrician families was tearing at the fabric of the empire.
Adultery was narrowly defined as a man having sex with another man’s wife...(not having a mistress, or a prostitute on the side). Hence mistresses, and prostitution proliferated so that by the time of the writing of New Testament (AD 50s) fully 25% of cities were whore houses (see Pompei).
So outlawing adultery (per say) made prostitution BIG business. I think a similar thing happened in 19th C. America. Adultery/divorce was so socially shameful....men found secret solace with hookers instead.
I suppose my thing is I’d rather my church define marriage than the government. Up until the early part of the 1900’s no one had to get a license from government to get married, they just signed in their family Bible or at their church.
I’d really rather government stay out of it but they make too much tax money from regulating marriage so that won’t happen.
My view on adultery is that it is a sin. But I don’t want it made into a crime. Does that make sense?
No female would ever support doing something like this, unless it was only the man that got punished.
I agree. I was a single mom with a son and a male dog (who drank out of the toilet). Being outnumbered I just left the seat up. It was only for about 5 years and not worth getting upset about. Choose your battles.
So when you get up at 2:30 AM.... you raise the lid, take care of business.... and then DROP the lid back to its default position. That will let her know that you remembered to put it down....
From the position I’m in, yes it should be illegal. Or at least grounds for the offending spouse to receive NOTHING in a divorce settlement.
A year and a half ago my wife ran off with another man. The laws of VA state that she is entitled to 1/2 of the marital share of my Navy retirement, along with other things. What I think she deserves is found in the book of Leviticus.
I agree. Here are just a few laws rooted in natural law:
Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not bear false witness
Government isn't in the morality business, but individuals need to be!
“Frankly, I am far, far more concerned at the normalization of homosexual lifestyles in prime time Television, schools, books, movies - everywhere.”
Homosexuals are an opportunistic infection. They are only so bold because normal people’s sexual morality is so weak that the homos encounter little to no resistance. Our society’s immune system is compromised, because most heterosexuals sold out their principles in exchange for consequences-free casual sex and easy divorce. So, the heteros are in no position to fight the homos, having given up the moral high ground.
If you can’t regulate morality, then why is stealing, murder, and lying under oath illegal?
I think anything covered under the 10 Commandments should be illegal. Those who want to ignore them will do so anyway, just as the Constitution is ignored and nothing is done against the perpetrators.
It used to be, then it got demoted to a civil offense, and then nothing.
What we should ban in our own lives is cheating on God.
Right away there are the questions of how you are going to adjudicate #1 and #2 under a secular government. And whose Sabbath?
It’s a side effect of winking at what used to be holy in holy matrimony. That went on for decades before the modern rage.
Sure you can. What do you think the laws prohibiting murder, rape and robbery are?
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