Lawmakers hope to shed baggage. Adultery law hasn't been enforced for ages, so why not repeal it?
State Rep. Carol McGuire, a Republican from Epsom, said she's never broken that old, dusty law. She's been a loyal, trustworthy wife for 28 years. "You can ask my husband," McGuire said.
No need for that. And no need to ask McGuire if she favors adultery, even though she'd like to see the state law that makes adultery a crime repealed.
McGuire joined state Rep. Tim Horrigan, a Democrat from Durham, in sponsoring House Bill 1402. They stated their cases yesterday before the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, a Democrat and a Republican involved in a passionate partnership.
They like to declare their sins openly and are not ashamed.
Isaiah 3:9 (KJV) The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Isaiah 5:20 (KJV) Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Proverbs 17: 13 (KJV) Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Romans 12:21 (KJV Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Woe unto this nation for calling good evil and evil good!
Apparently these law makers (or breakers?) need to go to something like,
Webster's 1913 Dictionary wrote: Adultery /A·dul´ter·y/ (?), n.; pl. Adulteries(?). [L. adulterium. See Advoutry.] 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. ? It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called double adultery; between a married and an unmarried person, single adultery. 3. (Script.) (a) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. (b) Faithlessness in religion. Jer. iii. 9.
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