Monday, December 31, 2012

Getting married?

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Son-of-man said...

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Trudy:

Marriage is not a monogamous relation between two adults to spend the rest of their lives together. In the many other cultures of the planet a man can marry as many women as he is able to maintain. Trudy you should have qualified your statement to reflect a European cultural version of marriage which has turned out to be a monumental disaster; two out of three, sixty-six percent of marriages ends in divorce. Simply put, it is an agreement to try each other out and see how long before the couple gets saturated with each other's outrages – then go their separate ways, leaving wreckage in its wake – that is the reality of the Western marriage.

Great and informative article as usual.

December 31, 2012 at 4:09 PM
Anonymous said...

Polygamy we should try that in LUcia. lnstead of this jabal thlng.

December 31, 2012 at 5:17 PM
Anonymous said...

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1000.00 dollar fine to get msrried? outrageous!!!

January 4, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Son-of-man said...

Trudy: One of marriage's fringe benefits?


California judge rules assault wasn’t rape because woman wasn’t married
By David Ferguson
Friday, January 4, 2013 11:03 EST


Crime victim in tunnel via Shutterstock
Topics: Julio Morales ♦ rape conviction


A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of a man charged with raping a sleeping woman, basing the decision on an 1872 law that does not protect unmarried women the same protections as those who are married. According to the LA Weekly blog, the court found in favor of Julio Morales, who was convicted of rape after he slipped into bed with a sleeping 18-year-old woman and initiated sex with her, pretending to be her boyfriend.

The assault took place in 2009 at the unnamed victim’s home. She and her boyfriend had fallen asleep together after a night of drinking, agreeing not to have sex that night. The boyfriend, who had an appointment early the next morning, got up and left during the night.

Julio Morales, a friend of the 18-year-old victim’s brother, climbed into bed with the woman and began to have sex with her. Thinking she was with her boyfriend, still, the victim reciprocated, but when a flash of light from the doorway revealed Morales’ identity, she cried out, pushed him away and began to cry.

The reversal of the rape charge is based on an archaic law in the California penal code that, according to the Daily Mail, stipulates “any person who fraudulently obtains the consent of another to sexual relations escapes criminal liability (at least as a sex offender under title IX of the Penal Code), unless he (or she) … masquerades as the victim’s spouse.”

Judge Thomas A. Willhite, Jr. wrote in the court’s decision, “Has the man committed rape? Because of historical anomalies in the law and the statutory definition of rape, the answer is no, even though, if the woman had been married and the man had impersonated her husband, the answer would be yes.”

The court argued, however, that the case should be retried and that the archaic law should be examined and possibly overturned. Willhite called Morales’ actions in the case “despicable,” but that the state’s law left the three judge panel with no choice.

Raw Story (http://s.tt/1xYab)

January 4, 2013 at 1:38 PM
Anonymous said...

1:38



Now that's a LAW! And the LAW should be obeyed!

January 4, 2013 at 1:43 PM

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