two years and counting!

[rmd]

today is the second anniversary of marriage equality in MA.

well, for residents. stupid anti-miscegenation laws.

Comments

[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?