adultery should be made illegal by federal law.?

Question

punished by community service, Yes are no

Answer 1

No. Marriage laws are governed by states. And thus, state law should govern whether or not adultery is legal. Each state should Thur its legislature decide the legality of adultry, keeping in mind, of course that it will be difficult to enforce such laws.

Answer 2

Do you want the feds in your bedroom? I cannot believe that people even suggest such a thing. We need to re-establish personal responsibility, not government control of people. When we make too many laws, people begin to believe that something is OK as long as it is legal. Just because something is legal does not make it morally correct. What is morally correct is up to each individual to determine and to take away that process is to undermine human growth and demean the importance of personal responsibility for your choices.

If you want to live in a country where adultery is illegal, maybe you should try the middle east. I think there are a few countries there that agree with your philosophy on legislation.

Answer 3

That's ridiculous. In addition to the billions of taxpayer dollars it would cost to enact and support it (that politicians would rather spend on an unjust war), and billions of dollars to enforce the law (when the feds would rather arrest cancer patients who smoke pot), it's also none of the state or the federal government's business.

Plus, a lot of lawmakers would be the first ones picking up trash on the highway if that were the case.

Answer 4

No.

There is no national security issue at stake here. The victims of adultery are local--the family of the adulterer.

That family already has recourse under the law--divorce and the embarrassment and economic destruction it may cause the adulterer.

Answer 5

Read the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Then, ask yourself that question again.

Answer 6

The great thing about freedom is the ability to destroy your own life if that's what you choose, and nobody's going to stop you.
Community service isn't going to keep someone from having an affair anyway. Even if it could, adultery is often hard to prove.
All that aside, I don't want the government telling me how to live my life in ANY way. Some of the best intentioned laws have stripped us all of our freedoms. No thanks! I'd rather take my chances on being cheated on, than to know the federal government is watching inside my bedroom.

Answer 7

For the first part, no, it should NOT be a Federal law. This is a State's right.
For the second part, I would have to say "it depends" upon the cause of the adultery.
"Judge not lest ye be judged."

Answer 8

What are you going to do. Put the entire U.S. Congress picking up cans along the road.?

I agree, but it will never happen. To much immorality today. Just look at the answers here. All those voting "no" probably have their hands in the cookie jar.

Answer 9

Adultery should be illegal. I agree with you there.

But the wronged party is not the community, it is the spouse.

Therefore, any penalty should be to compensate the spouse.

Our God-given, Contitutionally protected rights are based upon the commands of God as found in the Bible. "Thou shalt not commit adultery" is one of the big ten! Since adultery is a commandment of God, it establishes the God-given right to a faithful spouse in marriage.

Government's recognition of the absolute authority of God's Word should be reflected in the laws of the land. So, yes, I agree adultery should be made illegal by federal law.
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Answer 10

Why don't you make not "Keeping the Sabbath Holy" (in which case you couldn't do anything on Saturday - not Sunday!) illegal?!? Or some other obsolete religious law.
Who is going to sneak around people's bedrooms with cameras to prove it?