I wonder if any of my wives know........
Posted on 03/28/2011 5:40:36 PM PDT by LonelyCon
Gov. Sean Parnell's appointee for the panel that nominates state judges testified Wednesday that he would like to see Alaskans prosecuted for having sex outside of marriage.
The candidate, Don Haase of Valdez, also admitted under questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that his official resume failed to disclose his leadership role in Eagle Forum Alaska, which advocates for social conservative issues. He most recently was president of the organization, but resigned when he learned of his nomination, he said.
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Paskvan: "Do you believe [adultery] should be a crime?"
Haase: "Yeah, I think it's very harmful to have extramarital affairs. It's harmful to children, it's harmful to the spouse who entered a legally binding agreement to marry the person that's cheating on them."
Paskvan: "What about premarital affairs -- should that be a crime?"
Haase: "I think that would be up to the voters certainly. If it came before (the state) as a vote, I probably would vote for it ... I can see where it would be a matter for the state to be involved with because of the spread of disease and the likelihood that it would cause violence. I can see legitimate reasons to push that as a crime."
Haase then asked why those questions were relevant.
"You are injecting yourself into the judicial system and so I think it's fair inquiry," Paskvan replied. "If you have a motivation to limit who would be advanced to a judgeship ... then your beliefs and attitudes are important," Paskvan said.
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Post of the day! ROTFL
The party that wants to control my c**k is no better than the party that wants to control my wallet.
“So, let’s invite the government into everyone’s bedroom and private life, and see how much they can regulate. It’s for the public good, dontchaknow?”
The govt already controls every aspect of our lives. They define what constitutes a bedroom, and every aspect of that room and its contents. Heck they have half the population afraid to take those stupid tags off their pillows.
“If you’re a Christian, sex before marriage is a sin.”
Its a sin if you’re not a Christian as well.
Utter foolishness. What did Utah have to do to join the union? It had to outlaw polygamy.
Look, our natural rights derive from the Our Creator and his establishment of the Laws of Nature. While States are sovereign, a State that makes laws contrary to God's laws is rogue.
In a way the Civil War was about that theme. Chattel Slavery is immoral, immoral by G-d's Law. It was Christians who most opposed it in the US -- Quakers and religiously motivated individuals, including the both the most gentle of persons and the most forceful -- the meek to the bloody firebrands like John Brown.
Could a nation -- the North -- allow an slave nation to split off from it? The answer: no. That would have been immoral.
That isn't what that story is about. It's about hypocrites.
The law was that both the man and the woman were to be brought for judgment. There also had to be an eyewitness. If you falsely accused someone, you received the punishment you sought for them, stoning. Hence Jesus saying "He who is without sin cast the first stone". They broke the law. It was a set up to trap Jesus (where was the dude and was he a Pharisee?). He knew the law. So did they.
I wonder if any of my wives know........
Back when I was in the USMC, adultery was a court martial offense according to the UCMJ. Was it prosecuted? Not much. Should it have been?
Yep.
Some forms of sex are always wrong, others made right by contract. I’d like to see the law allow polygamy, contracted consorts and prostitution. But better to outlaw them, and discretion and privacy be their shield when necessary, than to allow and tolerate in law a general sexual licentiousness.
Radical libertines and Hedonists have desperately tried to re-write Puritan History and resorted to basically lying about them in an attempt to say “everyone always acted like we do.” It wasn’t just limited to the Puritans either, look at how Margaret Mead lied about the Samoans. It’s a shame that you bought the communist propaganda.
Even if rarely prosecuted — the laws against bastardy being an example of laws that seem to have had only a handful of prosecutions over a few hundred years — the mere fact that they are illegal establishes a clear warning to all that such things are close to unacceptable in a functioning society.
Creating laws against immoral behavior among free people have a rather less than successful history, but if you feel it's a good idea to offer folks the choice between jail time and an abortion, so be it.
Yes.
I'd rather have a discussion free from personal attack.
That said, the Utah Admission was a political event. There were no Federal Laws against polygamy...and there should not be. Ever.
If Utah or any other State decides they want to institutionalize polygamy they are free to do so.
Whether you like it or not, and I suspect you don't, we live in a Federal Republic where the Feds have no legal authority over the sexual behavior of it's citizens.
No kidding, this one is off the plantation of free will.
Or a kid or two.............................
You could have 99 degrees in History and you’d still be wrong. That’s obvious. You have too low a reading comprehension to be much of a scholar.
Your illiterate and distempered bragging mocks all who do know History and cherish its lessons, btw.
Your “degree in History” (which you need to prove if you are going to assert it) is pretty much worthless if you were simply taught the historic revisionism that is referred to as “history” in contemporary society. Indeed, the outright fraud (Margaret Mead is but one example) that exists with the academic left pretty much throws out any fallacious appeal to authority that you might purport to advance here.
Well sir, then you and I are mortal enemies.
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