New Hampshire Supreme Court: Gay Sex Not Adultery (Dumbing down deviancy!)

Wnne31, The Associated Press. ^ | November 7, 2003 | AP

[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.

[carlo3b]

 
Welcome to our new enlightened society!

Thank You Liberals!
Thank You Libertarians!
Thank You Moderates!
Thank You Progressives!
Thank You Morons!!!!!

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - JUDICIAL ANARCHY

[bmwcyle]

Ok everything is OK./sarcasm

[HiTech RedNeck]

Maybe the emphasis should have been on "perversion" rather than "adultery." This would not just cover the present example but also things like sex with the family dog (barf...)

[petitfour]

Unbelievable. Define adultery. Define marital unfaithfulness.

[HiTech RedNeck]

As a crime, perhaps, but as a tort?

[GraniteStateConservative]

The NH Supreme Court is a collective of busy-body idiots.

[mountaineer]

In related but not surprising news from N.H.:

November 7, 2003, 11:33 AM EST

CONCORD, N.H. -- An Episcopal priest opposed to having a gay bishop has been removed as interim pastor of the Church of the Redeemer in Rochester, the church treasurer said Friday. Kathy Lewis said members of the church's executive committee were told Thursday night that Bishop Douglas Thuener had removed the Rev. Don Wilson. Wilson opposed the consecration last weekend of Bishop V. Gene Robinson, as do many of the church's roughly 60 members.

Lewis said Wilson had clashed repeatedly with Theuner over Robinson's elevation, which has divided both the U.S. Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion to which it belongs.

Here and elsewhere, some conservatives say they will not recognize Robinson and have asked for pastoral oversight from bishops who share their belief that homosexuality is a violation of Scripture.

Wilson, who lives in Berwick, Maine, is a retired priest who became interim pastor of the Redeemer Church when its rector retired in April. Diocesan officials said Wilson was serving at the pleasure of the bishop, who retained the right to remove him. rest of story

[Joe Republc]

"We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

-- George Orwell

[apackof2]

And yet in every other aspect the sodomites want the same acknowledgments as heterosexual couples

Who doesn't believe we are living in the end times?

[Darksheare]

Well.. according to someone very close to me, vaginal penile penetration isn't sex as long as the man does not reach climax.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The fault is mostly with us, not them.

[antiRepublicrat]

NH divorce law states that he comes out on top if she engages in "adultry." In other NH laws, adultry is defined as "sexual intercourse." Maybe the court just took the standard definition of sexual intercourse, which is "coitus," and that doesn't happen in lesbian sex.

In that case, you don't have judicial activism because according to the law she didn't commit adultry. Thus judges were being judicially conservative because they didn't effectively rewrite the law to include what it doesn't explicitly include as written. It's up to the legislature to close this rediculous loophole by broadly defining adultry in the divorce law.

[Naspino]

It totally depends on what the definition of is ... is.

[a_Turk]

Maybe the judges were gay.. Maybe they they are naked beneath their robes, who knows??

[antiRepublicrat]

"adultery" where is my spelling today?