Law is not so much what legislatures declare it to be; law, instead, is the complex of norms and expectations that motivate most people in a community. In some states – including, I believe, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Mississippi – the legislative codes still prohibit sexual intercourse between unmarried persons. Suppose you’re a resident of one of these states and you’re called to jury duty. The case is State v. Jones, where the state government is prosecuting Ms. Jones (an adult) for having voluntary sex with her boyfriend (also an adult) in the privacy of their own home. Would you vote to convict Ms. Jones even if both Jones and her boyfriend admit that they are not married to one another but that they routinely have sex with each other in private?
Would you find it compelling if someone argued “Look, I personally have no problem with unmarried adults voluntarily having sex with each other. But the law’s the law! If unmarried adults want to have sex, let them do it legally;
2007-02-23 01:58:13 · 4 answers · asked by steve c 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
True Little buy blue - OF Course kids out of wedlock can cost the economy you idiot. Not that I'm against it.
Why lecture law is law if you only follow some of them yourself.
FYI
There are also laws down south that it's illegal to screw a chicken.
Weird, but I suppose there wouldn't be a law if there wasn't a problem.....
2007-02-23 03:21:29 · update #1
Don't be insane. Our laws let about a million people in legally a year, more from Mexico than from anywhere, and many of them poor. You find any country in the world that gives subsidized education and services to poor people that has a more liberal policy.
We then say 'that is enough.'
Illegal immigration is ruining our schools and hospitals. That government and big business are complicit doesn't remove the fact that illegal immigrants are the perpetrators, and that we and our children, not illegal immigrants, are the victims.
Legal immigration laws are very easy to follow.
If they follow those (and stay out) they won't have to worry about outdated laws on our books.
2007-02-23 08:59:01 · answer #1 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those laws are not enforced anymore so the chances of ever being called to jury duty on such a case are very slim.
Ridiculous laws like that do not need to be enforced. Immigration laws do.
2007-02-23 02:53:20 · answer #2 · answered by Pro-America, Anti-Illegal 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the law should apply to kids under 25 years of age. maybe it's their way of controlling birth growth amongst people, even the adults. there are adults who make the wrong decision, like having kids in poverty and can't take care of them. sounds alot like what the illegal are doing
2007-02-23 05:09:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Exactly! That is a good point.
2007-02-23 02:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by Antis Suck 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋