{"id":121,"date":"2008-07-15T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/?p=121"},"modified":"2008-07-15T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T15:05:06","slug":"on-laws-sex-and-puritans-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/07\/15\/on-laws-sex-and-puritans-values\/","title":{"rendered":"On Laws, Sex, and Puritans Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"body\">The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.<\/span>&#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We in America, a society often so prudish we still we can get swift action on cursing TV but still can&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230; there are thousands of laws and we break more than a few because we either don&#8217;t realize their is an associated law or can&#8217;t believe someone would make that a law.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBelow are a few of the fun (and still enforced) laws.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Laws still enforced today. And when i say enforced, someone was arrested on it in the last 2000 era.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In new york, You need a permit to allow more than 3 people to dance in your establishment.<\/li>\n<li>In Boston, more than 2 women who are unrelated living together is considered a bordello<\/li>\n<li>In Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia, Co-Habitation is still illegal<\/li>\n<li>In Clinton, Oklahoma it is illegal to masturbate while watching two people have sex in a car.<\/li>\n<li>In Washington State there is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances (including the wedding night!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virginia, struck down prohibiting sex between unmarried people (2005)<\/li>\n<li>Kansas &#8211; Throwing a snow ball will get you $499 and jailed for 179 days (2004)<\/li>\n<li>NC Fined for having a lottery ticket by the police (2003) hopefully repealed as they have a lottery now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are a few more if your interested. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bertc.com\/sexlaws.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">http:\/\/www.bertc.com\/sexlaws.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, my post is not specifically about sex, those laws are just the eaiset to find;\u00a0 And any country has really dumb laws. After all society&#8217;s change and who goes back to the 1600 to change a law?\u00a0 I am dismayed and distrubed that someone felt the need to enforce the &#8220;bumb law&#8221; law while there is REAL and DETRIMENTAL problems in the world today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple fact of life that we&#8217;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.\u00a0 Infact, you&#8217;re proabbly breaking one now reading this. You&#8217;re information has already been handed over to the FBI by some large media company. I wish you luck.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the ACLU will find you before they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.&#8211; Abraham Lincoln We in America, a society often so prudish we still we can get swift action on cursing TV but still can&#8217;t get the EPA to approve rules the court has approved to go forward. We have thought police and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[136,365,334],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blubs-of-verbs","category-life-lessons","tag-laws","tag-puritans","tag-sex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}