Shacking up: N.C. anti-cohabitation law under legal attack
Shacking up: N.C. anti-cohabitation law under legal attack: "RALEIGH, N.C., May 9 - There are some 144,000 unmarried couples living together in North Carolina, and they are all breaking the law - a statute that has been on the books since 1805. "
Dear Lord, please save me from your fan club! At least from the over zealouse ones please?!
The law against cohabitation is rarely enforced. But now the American Civil Liberties Union is suing to overturn it altogether, on behalf of a former sheriff's dispatcher who says she had to quit her job because she wouldn't marry her live-in boyfriend.
And the sad thing is, this is just 2 counties over from me. The same county I moved from.
"The sheriff told the Star-News of Wilmington last year that Hobbs' employment was a moral issue as well as a legal question. He said that he tries to avoid hiring people who openly live together, but he doesn't send out deputies to enforce the law. "
Who's morals? His? Well who fucking died and made him GOD?
"At least one judge, U.S. Magistrate Carl Horn in Charlotte, regularly asks defendants whether their living arrangements violate the cohabitation ban. Horn, who declined to be interviewed for this story, has refused to release violators unless they promise to comply.
''We think that it's good to have a law against cohabitation because the studies show that couples that cohabitate before they're married, that their marriages are more prone to break up, there's less stability in the marriage,'' said Bill Brooks, executive director of the conservative North Carolina Family Policy Council.
But the Rev. Jack McKinney of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, which counts gay couples among its 900-person congregation, said: ''I think the state's got better things to do than try to dictate people's private lives to that degree.'' "
Dear Lord, please save me from your fan club! At least from the over zealouse ones please?!
The law against cohabitation is rarely enforced. But now the American Civil Liberties Union is suing to overturn it altogether, on behalf of a former sheriff's dispatcher who says she had to quit her job because she wouldn't marry her live-in boyfriend.
And the sad thing is, this is just 2 counties over from me. The same county I moved from.
"The sheriff told the Star-News of Wilmington last year that Hobbs' employment was a moral issue as well as a legal question. He said that he tries to avoid hiring people who openly live together, but he doesn't send out deputies to enforce the law. "
Who's morals? His? Well who fucking died and made him GOD?
"At least one judge, U.S. Magistrate Carl Horn in Charlotte, regularly asks defendants whether their living arrangements violate the cohabitation ban. Horn, who declined to be interviewed for this story, has refused to release violators unless they promise to comply.
''We think that it's good to have a law against cohabitation because the studies show that couples that cohabitate before they're married, that their marriages are more prone to break up, there's less stability in the marriage,'' said Bill Brooks, executive director of the conservative North Carolina Family Policy Council.
But the Rev. Jack McKinney of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, which counts gay couples among its 900-person congregation, said: ''I think the state's got better things to do than try to dictate people's private lives to that degree.'' "
posted by Wench` at 2:50 PM
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No shit Sam, it's making me miss my liberal left coast VERY VERY Much!
But on the other hand, my family is here, so this is home now. All I can do is help enlighten the antiquated thought process of the senile MoFo's who try to run this state! At least the more enlightened are the majority now!
BTW - Road kill isn't so bad if your the one that ran over it! (Better than purposely shooting it, because they were on a suicide mission anyway, if they could write they would have a sign attached to them saying "Hit me and destroy your car - I promise to feed your family for your troubles!"
LOL
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