On Laws, Sex, and Puritans Values

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.– Abraham Lincoln

We in America, a society often so prudish we still we can get swift action on cursing TV but still can’t get the EPA to approve rules the court has approved to go forward. We have thought police and often, very often, our most anarchically enforced laws are social.

Now, many laws are on the books and fall silent, mostly because the shear number of rules produced yearly is often too much for any single person to know… there are thousands of laws and we break more than a few because we either don’t realize their is an associated law or can’t believe someone would make that a law.

Below are a few of the fun (and still enforced) laws.  Some call these blue Laws,(described in the General History of Connecticut as : bloody law; for they were all sanctified with whipping, cutting off the ears, burning the tongue and death. Gotta love the Puritans.

Blue Laws still enforced today. And when i say enforced, someone was arrested on it in the last 2000 era.

• In new york, You need a permit to allow more than 3 people to dance in your establishment.
• In Boston, more than 2 women who are unrelated living together is considered a bordello
• In Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia, Co-Habitation is still illegal
• In Clinton, Oklahoma it is illegal to masturbate while watching two people have sex in a car.
• In Washington State there is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances (including the wedding night!).

Some were struck down, only within the last few years (and i mean the 2000). I include these because they were recently enforced (which prompted their removal):

• Virginia, struck down prohibiting sex between unmarried people (2005)
• Kansas – Throwing a snow ball will get you $499 and jailed for 179 days (2004)
• NC Fined for having a lottery ticket by the police (2003) hopefully repealed as they have a lottery now.

Here are a few more if your interested. http://www.bertc.com/sexlaws.htm

Now, my post is not specifically about sex, those laws are just the eaiset to find;  And any country has really dumb laws. After all society’s change and who goes back to the 1600 to change a law?  I am dismayed and distrubed that someone felt the need to enforce the “bumb law” law while there is REAL and DETRIMENTAL problems in the world today.

It’s a simple fact of life that we’ve handed too much power to the state and the state can arrest you, because i am sure you have actually broken some unknown law today.  Infact, you’re proabbly breaking one now reading this. You’re information has already been handed over to the FBI by some large media company. I wish you luck.

Hopefully the ACLU will find you before they do.

OceansOfThought @ July 15, 2008