Posted on 04/06/2016 12:31:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Florida couples shacking up together are no longer breaking the law.
Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday signed a bill to repeal the state's largely unenforced prohibition on cohabitation. It was one of 20 bills he signed into law.
Under a law that has been on the books since 1868, a man and woman living together could be fined $500 and locked up in jail for 60 days. According to 2014 census data, there are nearly 438,000 unmarried male-female couples among 7.3 million Florida households.
The new law repeals the entire statute covering married or unmarried men and women "engaging in open behavior that is gross lewdness and lascivious.''
Florida is one of only a handful of states that still has a law making cohabitation illegal.
I oppose laws that promote immorality as well. So what's your point?
But you got those don't you? Laws that require your tax money to support abortions. Laws that force you to bake a queer marriage cake and more.
I oppose all that. You're trying to equate my opposition of an antiquated law into support for immorality.
And why do we have these oppressive immoral liberal laws?
See previous two responses.
Because we scoffed at and pissed away our moral conservative laws.
Again, the responsibility lies with the welfare state and weak-kneed politicians (cough, Republicans) and religious leaders refusing to fight for what's right.
If so, where are the arrests? Hardly anyone got arrested under the law since 1868. If the state really cared, they'd arrest the couples and throw them in jail.
shirley you jest ain’t kid’n
Not at all. I just don't like to be told I'm sinning if I crack open a beer.
I am referring to your knee-jerk hostility to Christianity and traditional values.
Far from it. I keep my Christian values to myself. I just don't go around holding REPENT signs on the street corner and berating others.
I never joke.
Islam is utterly perverted. They believe in sex in some forms, like between wives and husbands. How foul.
Due to the number of rapes and murders, the governor will be repealung those laws as well tomorrow morning.
When have you ever known me to joke.
“Not at all. I just don’t like to be told I’m sinning if I crack open a beer.”
Why? To paraphrase Skynyrd, does your conscious bother you?
“Far from it. I keep my Christian values to myself. I just don’t go around holding REPENT signs on the street corner and berating others.”
That really doesn’t reflect your comment that I replied to.
Science can remove the sin of sex from people who are married.
“”Why? To paraphrase Skynyrd, does your conscious bother you?””
Conscience, not conscious.
Feel free to make fun.
This was really necessary, wasn’t it governor?
Now you can get busy on some really important laws: unisex toilets.
I respectfully disagree. During the westward expansion women were difficult to find and women who lost their man were very likely to ‘hook up’ with any man who would. There were few “ preachers’ in the neighborhood. There were few neighborhoods. Many ancestorial trees have lapses in them.
This is one of those examples of why laws should have expiration dates. If nobody has ever been prosecuted based on a law for 25 years, just get rid of it, or at least put it up to a revote. Every state, probably every city, has these kinds of laws on the books (especially regarding those terrifying bits of technology the horseless carriage), and pretty much the only thing they do is provide fodder for satire websites, and once in a while somebody thinks to repeal them.
Hmmmmm, got me there. But I’m still not convinced you weren’t jerking some chains.
This California black worm would like to meet you. S/he too feels that asexual reproduction is the best. Maybe you guys can, you know, pardon the expression, hook up. S/he likes long walks in the dirt, rolling, joining ends, and hates snobby people. And birds.
ME? A *TRICKSTER*?
Loki is my father.
Sexy worm.
Er, maybe I should say, “Asexy worm”.
Shoot, I don’t think Barney and Thelma Lou ever had sex in any position!
Where did I ever say the state cares? Especially a secular state pandering to vox pop.
I said the state has a right to care. I would argue that the state has a natural duty to care. That the state has disowned its rights and shirked its duty is to the discredit of those in office and the voters who maintain them there.
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