The all sin all the time Liberals at the ACLU have struck again! This time they found a Liberal judge to strike down North Carolina’s 201 year old anti-fornication/adultery law, that law said in part:

If any man and woman, not being married to each other, shall lewdly and lasciviously associate, bed and cohabit together, they shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

It was an effort to maintain a decent and orderly society, but now:

I am amazed by today’s “right to Liberty” advocates, that act as if the US Constitution gives them the right to all manner of evil and no state can inhibit their activity. This law was 201 years old, which means it was created less than 20 years after establishment of the US Constitution and less than 15 years after the Bill of Rights was ratified. This means that the law was exactly the kind of thing that the founders intended. Because the US Constitution gives states the right to create laws, to maintain order as they see fit. Otherwise states would never have joined the union to begin with! The constitutional amendment that gave states like North Carolina that right is below.

Nowhere in the US Constitution were states prohibited from making laws to prevent fornication and adultery. And people have no such “right to fornicate” guaranteed in the Constitution. So states have the liberty to make such laws. All this talk about personal liberty/privacy when it comes to things like fornication is garbage, when weighed against an honest reading of the US Constitution and the full history of laws enforced by states, that were never overturned by our “founding fathers”.

Oh but the fornicators are happy the ACLU helped them win one for people who feel their sinful and immoral activity should always be protected by law.

(from the article linked above)

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Hobbs said Thursday she was “very happy for myself and for everyone else this law has affected.”
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Next targets for the ACLU:

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The ACLU says along with North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, Michigan, Mississippi and North Dakota have laws that prohibit cohabitation.

Blog Mirror of Justice found that couples that live together don’t often end up getting married.

You can see a draft copy of that report here.

Also I found this report, that mentions people who have babies out of wedlock are less likely to get married and remain married. The longer they wait after conception to marry, the less likely the couple will stay married. The bottom line is that those who display less control over their bodies and indulge in risky behavior are less likely to be able to hold a marriage together.

And for anyone who thought 50% of American marriages end in divorce. That’s an old myth. You can read the facts about that one here.