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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 01-17-07 01:11 AM Link | Quote
In Michigan, anyway.

Link to article

Originally posted by the article
Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.


The offending line is this:

Originally posted by Michigan's criminal law
A person is guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct whenever "sexual penetration occurs under circumstances involving the commission of any other felony."


This would basically equalize cheating with rape, seeing as the consent of both parties would be irrelevant in this case.

The sad thing is, I can already see this being abused by spiteful women (or men) seeking revenge against their (ex-)spouses.

Although, hopefully, the Legislature of Michigan will see its absurdity and amend or eliminate the law.

Discuss.
Jomb

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Since: 12-03-05
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Posted on 01-19-07 01:14 AM Link | Quote
Why am i not surprised by this sort of thing anymore? It just seems like we are moving backwards on most social issues in this country for a while now.
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Since: 11-19-05
From: Emerson, New Jersey

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Posted on 01-19-07 01:50 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Jomb
Why am i not surprised by this sort of thing anymore? It just seems like we are moving backwards on most social issues in this country for a while now.
Out of curiosity, how do you consider the disapproval of adultery to be "backwards social thinking"? Maybe forbidding it through an actual law is overboard - well, I'd say it's definitely overboard, regardless of how reprehensible the act of adultery is - but you seem to suggest that the mere rejection of such a practice is a somehow prehistoric or puritanical notion.
Jomb

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Since: 12-03-05
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Posted on 01-19-07 02:09 AM Link | Quote
To give someone life in prison over adultery is just plain barbaric. Really, to give anyone any jail time at all over adultery is absurd. Cheating on someone is a sickening act in my opinion, but to make it a felony is a major step backwards. The punishment for cheating should be a quick divorce and everyone thinking you are a scumbag. Unless of course both members of the relationship agreed on an open relationship, but then it would'nt be cheating I suppose. I dont think anything should be a crime without it causing actual physical harm to someone, contained a serious threat of physical harm, or caused loss/damage to property. Everything else (like lieing, adultery, insulting people, generally being a jerk, etc.) brings its own punishment when the behavior comes back to bite the person on the ass later. The sooner we as a nation break away from our national obsession with the court system the better off we'll all be.
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Since: 11-19-05
From: Emerson, New Jersey

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Posted on 01-19-07 02:20 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Jomb
To give someone life in prison over adultery is just plain barbaric. Really, to give anyone any jail time at all over adultery is absurd. Cheating on someone is a sickening act in my opinion, but to make it a felony is a major step backwards. The punishment for cheating should be a quick divorce and everyone thinking you are a scumbag. Unless of course both members of the relationship agreed on an open relationship, but then it would'nt be cheating I suppose.
Fair enough. I understood you to mean that simply disapproving of adultery is wrong, rather than actually outlawing it.
emcee

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Since: 11-20-05

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Posted on 01-19-07 09:12 AM Link | Quote
Nobody wants to send people to prison for life for adultery. It's just one poorly worded law, and another out of date unused law.
SamuraiX

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Since: 11-19-05

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Posted on 01-19-07 09:39 AM Link | Quote
So what are we debating, the actuality that there is a slim probability that one could be sentenced for a life in prison, or considering if this was in fact a "real" law. Considering the information given in the article, this obscure clause has been around for a long time, and no one has been convicted for adultery since 1971. I feel this is a case of the speed limit law: a marginal number of people actually follow that one cannot go over a given speed, but the norm is that it's acceptable to go 70 mph on a 60 mph highway, and the law punishes neither of these groups, but the ones who are going significantly faster than the rest. Much in the same way, I don't expect very many--if any--to be sentenced to life in prison for adultery, but I can see someone being sent for life for a crime similar to the crime that brought up all of this, a variation of prostitution.
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