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Fornication Will No Longer Be Illegal in Utah
Fox 13 Salt Lake City ^ | 3/6/19 | Ben Winslow

Posted on 03/12/2019 4:49:11 PM PDT by marshmallow

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah State Legislature is making sex outside of marriage legal.

In a bill cleaning up Utah's criminal code, lawmakers repealed the misdemeanor crime of fornication. The House passed Senate Bill 43 on a 41-32 vote. It previously passed the Utah State Senate and now goes to Governor Gary Herbert for his signature or veto.

The legislature previously passed a bill removing adultery and sodomy among consenting adults as crimes in Utah. Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, said court rulings have found the laws are unenforceable and it was time to remove them from the books.

The bill wasn't popular with some of the more conservative members of the Utah House of Representatives. Rep. Merrill Nelson, R-Grantsville, said he objected. So did Rep. Keven Stratton, R-Orem.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox13now.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: romney; romneyagenda; romneymarriage; utah
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1 posted on 03/12/2019 4:49:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Eat, Drink and Be Merry
For tomorrow, ye may be in Utah


2 posted on 03/12/2019 4:51:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marshmallow

Just in the nick of time. Wouldn’t want to charge Sinator Willard the Rat with fornicating the voters of Utah.


3 posted on 03/12/2019 4:51:57 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: marshmallow
Act of Caesar
Ask God what he sez about fornication and adultery
4 posted on 03/12/2019 4:52:02 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: marshmallow

Yeah and what about polygamy? Is that legal too?


5 posted on 03/12/2019 4:58:07 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: marshmallow

It’s high time for a new Big Bang Theory!


6 posted on 03/12/2019 5:00:34 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

Fascinating, since Utah’s delegate seeking statehood (1890) had to sit through a very strong speech by a Senator objecting to Utah’s LDS celestial (plural) marriage....
and, given that the Senator was well-known for his frequent visits to the local whorehouse (one of several serving Congress),

the delegate famously observed that...”at least when I bed them, I wed them”


Utah’s admission to statehood was approved after the Church President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto ending that form of marital institution (originally revealed by Bringham Young, who reportedly had 55 wives; Woodruff had reportedly 10 or 12, not all at once...)


7 posted on 03/12/2019 5:01:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: MeganC

Polygyny optional. Or polyandry, depending upon the case.


8 posted on 03/12/2019 5:02:00 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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9 posted on 03/12/2019 5:02:43 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: MeganC

Probably not because it has a lot of bibical backing.


10 posted on 03/12/2019 5:09:09 PM PDT by ravenwolf (Small towns are great, if you forget what you were doing don't worry every one else knows.)
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To: marshmallow

Seriously, 32 senators opposed it? Hey gay marriage is legal in Utah (against the will of the populace) so punishing straight people for being as immoral with criminal penalties just seems unfair.

I guess there are many Utahns who believe in a theocracy.


11 posted on 03/12/2019 5:21:48 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: MeganC; Pelham
Commercial Photography
12 posted on 03/12/2019 5:23:19 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Wife 1 and Wife 2 look like they are sisters or blood relatives.


13 posted on 03/12/2019 5:33:58 PM PDT by x
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To: x

Wife #3 looks so young, a teenage girl? Though if she’s 18 or older, she’s legally an adult.


14 posted on 03/12/2019 5:55:59 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: marshmallow

None of this really matters, because such laws banning fornication are unenforceable anyway.


15 posted on 03/12/2019 5:56:56 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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16 posted on 03/12/2019 6:05:47 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (We are in the midst of a Cold Civil War.)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Multiple wives? Sounds like hell on earth to me.


17 posted on 03/12/2019 6:06:20 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Lazamataz

Where's Monte Hall?


18 posted on 03/12/2019 6:07:43 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (We are in the midst of a Cold Civil War.)
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To: marshmallow

It will be a grand copulation.


19 posted on 03/12/2019 6:18:33 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Jeff Chandler
Commercial Photography
20 posted on 03/12/2019 6:29:05 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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