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11-07-2003, 04:07 PM
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NH Supreme Court Says Gay Sex Not Adultery
From Newsday. Quote:
If a married woman has sex with another woman, is that adultery? The New Hampshire Supreme Court, ruling in a divorce case, says no.
The court was asked to review a case in which a husband accused his wife of adultery after she had a sexual relationship with another woman. Robin Mayer of Brownsville, Vt., was named in the divorce proceedings of David and Sian Blanchflower of Hanover.
A Family Court judge decided Mayer and Sian Blanchflower's relationship did constitute adultery, but Mayer appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that gay sex is not adultery under New Hampshire divorce law.
Three of the five justices agreed. Two others -- generally considered the court's more conservative members -- did not.
Part of the problem in New Hampshire is that adultery is not defined in the state's divorce laws. So the court looked up "adultery" in Webster's dictionary and found that it mentions intercourse. And it found an 1878 case that referred to adultery as "intercourse from which spurious issue may arise."
Other states, including Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, have defined adultery in broader terms -- beyond intercourse -- to include gay sex.
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11-07-2003, 07:15 PM
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Sounds like Clinton denying he had sex with Monica because it didn't include intercourse. 
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11-07-2003, 07:19 PM
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I thought gay people wanted to be considered "married". If so, the same marriage laws should apply to them, no?
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11-07-2003, 07:31 PM
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What a stick-in-the-mud, that guy! 
Were I to discover my wife having an affair with another woman, I think the subject of divorce would be the very LAST thing my mind...
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11-07-2003, 07:42 PM
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Maybe he was looking for an excuse.
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11-07-2003, 09:54 PM
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I wonder if that state's laws allow him to sue the third party for alienation of affection. Sounds like a sticky situation.
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11-07-2003, 10:48 PM
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"alienation of affection"
Is that the new PC way to say that bas.... stole my wife
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11-09-2003, 05:19 PM
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Just found this on Instapundit...  | |
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11-09-2003, 05:27 PM
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See that Knot? You're way ahead of your time. 
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11-09-2003, 06:34 PM
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Would it be adultery if your wife took up with a gay man ????? Or would it be just a legal excuse ????? Every time you caught your wife in bed with some dude, all she would have to say , " Oh, he's gay so it doesn't count " Maybe it would be time for you to find a lesbian !!!! 
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