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Posted on 07/23/2006 4:57:08 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
State Can't Ban Living Together, Judge Rules
POSTED: 1:51 pm EDT July 20, 2006
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A judge says North Carolina's 201-year-old law barring unmarried couples from living together is unconstitutional.
The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union brought a lawsuit challenging the law on behalf of former Pender County sheriff's dispatcher Deborah Hobbs.
Hobbs lived with her boyfriend and quit her job in 2004 after Sheriff Carson Smith demanded she marry her boyfriend or move out if she wanted to work for him.
State Superior Court Judge Benjamin Alford issued the ruling Wednesday, citing a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case which struck down a Texas sodomy law.
Jennifer Rudinger of the ACLU of North Carolina said that decision stands for the idea that the government has no business regulating relationships between two consenting adults in the privacy of their own home.
A spokeswoman for State Attorney General Roy Cooper said lawyers were reviewing the decision and there's been no decision yet on whether to file an appeal.
I'm not going to try to defend the law. The problem is that the ACLU and their political wing, the federal courts are on jihad to toss out our traditions and ways of life.
I'm sure it affects interstate commerce... reduces the demand for wedding cake ingredients presumed to be shipped across state lines, for instance. ;^)
1,049 federal rights depend on marital status. What the privilege of marriage buys you.
After being in a romantic partnership for almost eight years, after living together for four years, after jointly purchasing property, sharing bills and income, after having a ceremony during which we publicly declared our commitment to one another in front of all our friends and family, Terra and I are still denied 1,049 federal rights automatically granted to heterosexual, married couples. Rest of article can be found at: http://scribbling.net/1049-federal-rights-depend-on-marital-status Some of those rights include:
State Superior Court Judge Benjamin Alford is not a federal judge. On the other hand he knows what he likes.
Beep. Circle takes the square. Those are federal privileges, not rights. A right is something that, when exercised, puts no onus or obligation on another person.
That being said, "free association" is a right. Regardless of the religious or moral implications, these folks cohabitation has not engendered an obligation on the part of a third party.
Unless it is an all male golf club.
Can I ask why you went through all of that but did not marry?
Belonging to a club that doesn't want you isn't a right.
It's still a right, regardless of what the government declares.
The 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case was a terrible injustice because the constitution gives the federal govt. zero jurisdiction over individules and their activity within a state. Basically what the court did was violate citizens P&I's in the right to govern themselves.
More than likely because the guy wont marry her. he lacks commintment. She is only fooling herself. One day if sh pushes him he will leave.
Oprah and Phil Donahue and all the lib freaks have run a million shows declaring the virtue of living like a fornicating dog.
Filty people support filthy people, and declare it a victory for virtue, as in godless hedonism.
You're equating living together with godless hedonism? Wow, your brain does some serious yoga bends, doesn't it?
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| "Belonging to a club that doesn't want you isn't a right." It read as sarcasm to me. |
The Church has always taught that sex that is not within the bounds of marriage, is fornication.
And he has just discovered it! For 201 years North Carolina must have had stupid judges.
(I hope he is referring to the North Carolina Constitution, because it's pretty tough to find anything about this in the Federal Constitution.)
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