two years and counting!

[rmd]

today is the second anniversary of marriage equality in MA.

well, for residents. stupid anti-miscegenation laws.

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[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

And people wonder why I believe that state legislatures should devote the first week to repealing stupid antiquated legislation. You never know when something hateful will pop back up and do damage.

Laws which demand public flogging as punishment are still on the books here; I shudder to think about them somehow becoming enforceable again. (One of the crimes so punishable is co-habitation without benefit of marriage.)

[clauclauclaudia]

So living in sin is okay only if you're kinky!

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Or at least more fun!

[babasyzygy.livejournal.com]

I'd really like to see every law expire in something like 10 years, requiring repassage in order to remain in effect.

If it's so goddamned important, they can pass it again from time to time. If it's not, it shouldn't be on the books.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

The problem with that is that you end up with clerical errors. Pennsylvania overhauled their criminal code in, I think, the mid 1970s, and struck a bunch of the morals laws off the books, including those against opposite-sex unmarried individuals living together, sodomy, fornication, and so forth. Trouble was, when they got all the sex laws off the books, they accidentally legalized rape. Ooops. A few rapists walked during the eight months when rape was legal before somebody noticed. :-(

[babasyzygy.livejournal.com]

That's what happens when they try to keep too many laws on the books, I would say. In the area of rape, Pennsylvania was thorough screwed up regardless.

They should have undertaken a complete rewrite that took out the bit about spousal rape being impossible (http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32701) (which wasn't removed until 1995 in PA), instead.

[sethg]

A few rapists walked during the eight months when rape was legal before somebody noticed.

Couldn't they at least be charged with assault and battery?

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I definitely agree with that. Or, even better, pass a new law, review an old law, it's the law law!

I also think that laws should be a distinct and singular document in and of themselves, none of this rider crap that gets things completely unrelated added on at the last moment for deal-making. That's just nuts.