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New Hampshire Supreme Court: Gay Sex Not Adultery (Dumbing down deviancy!)
Wnne31, The Associated Press. ^ | November 7, 2003 | AP

Posted on 11/07/2003 12:35:42 PM PST by carlo3b

 
Supreme Court: Gay Sex Not Adultery

Decision Comes In Divorce Appeal

POSTED: 11:55 a.m. EST November 7, 2003
CONCORD, N.H. -- If a married woman has sex with another woman, is that adultery? The New Hampshire Supreme Court says no.

The court was asked to review a divorce case in which a husband accused his wife of adultery after she had a sexual relationship with another woman. Any finding that one spouse is at fault in the break-up of a marriage can change how the court divides the couple's property.

Robin Mayer, of Brownsville, Vt., was named in the divorce proceedings of a Hanover couple. She appealed the case to the Supreme Court, arguing that gay sex doesn't qualify as adultery under the state's divorce law.

In a 3-2 ruling Friday, the court agreed.

The majority determined that the definition of adultery requires sexual intercourse. The judges who disagreed said adultery should be defined more broadly to include other extramarital sexual activity.



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To: mountaineer
Episcopal priest opposed to having a gay bishop = Rightous and a true man of scripture.

Bishop V. Gene Robinson = adulter and homosexual

Gee, nice church. Make sure you show your support and put lots of money in this collection plate. - NOT!

(Apostate church = 666)

101 posted on 11/07/2003 10:11:49 PM PST by concerned about politics ( As a rightous man declarith a thing, so shall it be.)
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To: cookcounty
I guess the new Bishop of New Hampshire is now free to visit the rest rooms for fun and relaxation!

Bingo!.. Sick but sooooo true!

102 posted on 11/07/2003 10:12:46 PM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: carlo3b
The Episcapal church has gone to hell in a hurry - literally.
103 posted on 11/07/2003 10:13:04 PM PST by concerned about politics ( As a rightous man declarith a thing, so shall it be.)
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To: Grampa Dave
. Since then with the pro gay laws passed by the legislators, the pro gay decisions by the courts, the Gay Bishop and other sanctioned pro gay behavior, we now understand that this has been in the works for a long time.

According to the American Indian prophacies, Sodom California, the lower half of Florida, and the homosexual area of the North East are going find themselves "cleansed" by the ocean when California cracks. They'll be burried by the sea.
Hey, if God can do it once before for Soddom and Gamorrah, why not do it again? He let them all die of disease before in Romans 1, and they're ignoring the AIDs warning.
He'll cleanse the land again one way or another.

So it is.

104 posted on 11/07/2003 10:20:30 PM PST by concerned about politics ( As a rightous man declarith a thing, so shall it be.)
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To: laredo44
Most Americans don't believe that a fetus is a baby or an abortion is murder.

89% feel abortion is murder. That makes the few who support it the social misfits.
Same with homoxexuality. 99% of Americans are heterosexuals. That makes the homosexuals the dysfunctionals.

In a Marxist society, i.e., liberal socialist, the mutants rule via facist litigation.
In a representitive society, the majority of the voters choose the right path.
The concervative path, BTW. That's why the mutants never take their issues before the voters. They'll lose.

105 posted on 11/07/2003 10:34:01 PM PST by concerned about politics ( As a rightous man declarith a thing, so shall it be.)
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To: carlo3b
Liberal appointed Judges!

Were they? The last judge I saw FR people going off on was an appointee of former president Bush with pretty good credentials. In that case, too, it looked like it was the legislature at fault.

Just because some judges in Texas want to play fast and loose with the law with a result that liberals love, doesn't mean some judges in New Hampshire coming up with a result liberals love is necessarily playing playing the law loose.

I don't know about you, but personally, and in every way I hear it used regularly, "sexual intercourse" requires a penis be in the equation somewhere. The law simply needs to be amended. Check your state law to see what would happen in a case like this.

106 posted on 11/07/2003 10:43:25 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: carlo3b
Don't you see whats wrong with your straw man.. everyone else does.. LOL

The law is a straw man? Huh. So you don't believe that judges are supposed to enforce the law as it is written? Instead you'd like them to interpret what they think it should mean? Or rather, what you think it should mean? I'm sorry, but I don't consider adherence to the legal code to be a 'strawman.'

In Texas there is no law against adultery at all, though it can be used as grounds for divorce, while in New Hampshire it is a misdemeanor. Maybe if you are so concerned about legislating morality you should get your home state to catch up with New Hampshire which is far ahead of you in this regard.

107 posted on 11/07/2003 10:50:09 PM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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To: carlo3b
The judges could just as easily taken a wide birth in interrupting this case, however once again the secularist judges decided not to.

So let me get this straight. You believe that judges, when facing a law that is unclear on a subject, should interpret it to mean what they want it to mean, and rule accordingly? Or should they take a narrow interpretation of the law, ruling simply on what it says?

In otherwords, are you for judicial activism or against it? Do you believe judicial activism is good when it suits your purposes?

108 posted on 11/07/2003 10:52:39 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
but personally, and in every way I hear it used regularly, "sexual intercourse" requires a penis be in the equation somewhere

Not any more, where have you been..dare I ask? The queers have a whole new set of rules, and nothing is what it used to be.

Do you think a BL@WJOB is sex, if so, and I am really going out on a limb with you, do you think that would be adultress? . . I thought so.. so how have the liberal judges found reasons to overturn our moral codes in this country and not seen that simple fact??? Not on my watch, you can run you game somewhere else.. sorry, all of my compassion was spent fighting off the foxes in our schools.. Have you no shame?.. LOL

109 posted on 11/07/2003 10:54:14 PM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: carlo3b
I can only draw attention to the hypocrisy

Conservatives opposed to judicial activism advocating judicial activism--that kind of hypocrisy?

110 posted on 11/07/2003 10:56:24 PM PST by Sandy
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To: Looking for Diogenes
Peddle your BS somewhere else.. You know exactly what I am talking about, and all you and your little band of jerks want to change the subject.. Activist judges are usurping our freedoms in favor of perverts though out our country I am asking for our pound of flesh..

I really don't care if it's "fair" or not, I'm just learning how to play in the NEW WORLD OF POLITICS.. If Liberal Judges can find new rights for every narrow-minded group of freaks, out of whole cloth, then they can find some commonsense in this case. SEX "IS" SEX, with or without a penetration. Didn't you mother teach you this stuff?

111 posted on 11/07/2003 11:07:50 PM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: carlo3b
Should there be a law in every state against all forms of adultery (vaginal, anal, oral, manual, aural, emotional, and imaginary) and other deviant sex?

This case only has to do with money. The divorce is going to occur no matter what. The finding of 'fault' would change how property is allocated. It's just another petty, sordid divorce battle.

BTW a gay group filed an amicus brief supporting the interpretation of lesbian sex as adultery. So they agreed with you on how to interpret the law. Thought you'd be happy to know - (LOL)

Here's a good article in the main state newspaper:
The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - Court: Lesbian affair not adultery

112 posted on 11/07/2003 11:10:25 PM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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To: Looking for Diogenes
Should there be a law in every state against all forms of adultery (vaginal, anal, oral, manual, aural, emotional, and imaginary) and other deviant sex?

Thats a hell of a question.. It has become quite obvious that since SHAME is a missing trait in some households, perhaps Laws should replace it!
As for DEVIANT SEX, yes I do believe there should be LAWs against all forms of perverted same sex activities.. Is that clear enough?
 

113 posted on 11/07/2003 11:19:15 PM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: antiRepublicrat
So let me get this straight. You believe that judges, when facing a law that is unclear on a subject, should interpret it to mean what they want it to mean, and rule accordingly? Or should they take a narrow interpretation of the law, ruling simply on what it says?

If they're going to err, they should err on the side of life - a God givin right in the constitution. This ruling also would include men. Men are more apt to be infected by the AIDs virus through homosexual behavior.
In this case, they favored the deathstyle, rather than the lifestyle.

The moral fabric supports the constitution, because when all morals are gone, why not lie about everything? Who will care? Who will be able to condemn it? The moral? No, they're politically incorrect.

114 posted on 11/07/2003 11:19:45 PM PST by concerned about politics ( As a rightous man declarith a thing, so shall it be.)
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To: Looking for Diogenes
BTW a gay group filed an amicus brief supporting the interpretation of lesbian sex as adultery.

WOW, now there are at least 3 things we have in common, breathing, peeing and this!

115 posted on 11/07/2003 11:21:10 PM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: Sandy
Conservatives opposed to judicial activism advocating judicial activism--that kind of hypocrisy?

Yep.. life is a bit@h!

116 posted on 11/07/2003 11:23:23 PM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: carlo3b
These new pro-homosexual laws are brought to us by the socialists/communists/libertarians/democrats in an attempt to break up the American family unit. Once that bond is broken, the society becomes "me, me, me", instead of "we.".
Welcome to the new U.S.S.A.
117 posted on 11/07/2003 11:30:29 PM PST by concerned about politics ( As a rightous man declarith a thing, so shall it be.)
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To: concerned about politics
break up the American family unit. Once that bond is broken, the society becomes "me, me, me", instead of "we.".

How right you are!!!! We just have to learn to stand up to these freaks, and drag them into the daylight where even the unwashed will see them for what they are.. Lost souls!!

118 posted on 11/07/2003 11:36:40 PM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: carlo3b
How right you are!!!! We just have to learn to stand up to these freaks, and drag them into the daylight where even the unwashed will see them for what they are.. Lost souls!!

As they sow, so shall they reap. They choose a deathstyle choice, that's exactly what they'll get.
In the end, these various anti-Christ groups will eventually clash and war with themselves, and the evil will be killing off evil.

So it is. Amen

119 posted on 11/07/2003 11:44:03 PM PST by concerned about politics ( As a rightous man declarith a thing, so shall it be.)
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To: carlo3b
The Bible considers all sex after a divorce to be adultery (except in the case of adultery)? Just where do you want to draw the moral line for these laws? Do you want to outlaw second marriages unless the previous spouse can be proven to have engaged in adultery? Is deciding questions like this the best way for our courts to spend their time?

Matthew 19:8-9
Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."

120 posted on 11/07/2003 11:53:06 PM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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