Heres a 9 on the WTF scale--Michigan has officially legislated morality.

[tjwash]

Full story in the Detroit Free Press.

Adultery could mean life, court finds
That's what the law says in sex-drug case Cox appealed

January 15, 2007

BY BRIAN DICKERSON

FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.

"We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion."

Slippery slope anyone?

[cynatnite]

1. As if that'll get far...

:eyes:

[originalpckelly]

2. Quick, move Newt Gingrich to Michigan!

[Erika]

3. Newt Gingrich must be in panic

You know the GOP.

[Az]

4. Slippery slope? More like perilous precipice

Thats right over the edge.

[bumblebee1]

13. Will there be either skis or snowboards provided for said slippery slope? n/t

[madeline_con]

5. So, what about the broad?

Was she charged with prostitution?

[lvx35]

6. The moral lesson: Whatever you do, don't get married.

This new thing ruins in anyway...you get down on one knee:

"honey, will you voluntarily enter a sexual exclusivity contract with me where breech is punished by life in prison? I got a ring!"

fuck that.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. News Flash:

Kid Rock moves out of Michigan. Pictures at 11.

[hughee99]

8. So adulterers will have to register as sex offenders? n/t

[donheld]

9. See, this is why gay marriage is a bad idea

If we're not married it's not adultery. :evilgrin:

[OneBlueSky]

10. but it is fornication . . . is that covered in this (or any other) law? . . . n/t

[ck4829]

11. Republicans leave the state in droves

Crying "When we mean to legislate morality, that means curtailing the rights of those homosexuals! Waaah!"

[GreenZoneLT]

12. Blatantly unconstitutional

That one will never hold up. Only gay people's sexual practices can be legally proscribed and have it hold up in court. :eyes:

Some D.A. probably prosecute somebody, though, being the publicity whores that so many of them are. In Georgia, they prosecuted a guy for having oral sex with his wife, before the Georgia sodomy statute got tossed out.

[Rosemary2205]

14. Who cares - women have given up on marriage anyways.

51% of women are unmarried (Olberman) - and it's only going to go up from there. IMHO. The defense of marriage and adultery laws won't mean anything to them.

[TZ]

15. Chastity belts next...

Seriously? Come on. Why is "big government" bad according to the right, yet its okay for the gov't to peek into our bedrooms anyway? Why am I going to hear the hot air right wing yappers say this is because of Clinton's bad example...until they all get arrested anyway. Sheesh.
:eyes:

[SpiralHawk]

16. Despite their rhetoric, republicons love to stick their noses into people's private lives

Just like they 'claim' they oppose Nation Building, then they squander our tax dollars to do it.

Just like they 'claim' to be fiscally prudent, but run the US Treasury into the toilet.

Just like they 'claim' to be conservative, when they are actually radical.

republcion horseshit -- it's nose deep.

[undeterred]

17. Life sentence to your spouse

or to live with your spouse in prison?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. They'd have to make Alaska, Texas, California, and Montana prisons.

And, then it would be standing room only.

[notadmblnd]

19. Who has the potential to benefit from this?

The wife or the person the affair was had with? Could a lover scorned threaten to press charges unless some other agreement could be come to? I really can't think how the spouse of the cheater would benefit by having them thrown in jail. Anyone have an opinion?

[TZ]

20. benefit- custody battle

Can't have custody of the kids if you are in jail....