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:: Thursday, January 16, 2003 ::

Georgia, Gettin' With The Times

The Georgia Supreme Court has struck down a 170-year-old law that made it a crime for unmarried people to have sex.

How kind of you to let me do what the hell I want with another person that consents. Thank you for giving me my damn rights back. I know, they probably never *really* charged people with it unless someone made a fuss, but I would still like to see laws like this removed from the books out of principle.

The ruling Monday came in the case of a 16-year-old boy discovered having sex with his girlfriend in the bedroom of her home. The young woman's mother made the discovery.

Oh look, there's someone that made a fuss.

"Our opinion simply affirms that ... the government may not reach into the bedroom of a private residence and criminalize the private, noncommercial, consensual sexual acts of two persons legally capable of consenting to those acts," Chief Justice Norman Fletcher wrote.
Under Georgia law, the age of consent is 16.

Crazy idea!! The government can't criminalize consenting behavior? Wow, we're on track to the end of the world now.

Following his conviction, Jesse McClure, now 17, was ordered to pay a fine and write an essay explaining why he should not have had sex. He wrote that it wasn't the court's business.
"Invading personal privacy just isn't right," McClure said Monday. "It now goes that way for everybody."
In 1998, the state Supreme Court overturned an anti-sodomy law, ruling it violated the Georgia Constitution's guarantee of a right to privacy.

Why he shouldn't have sex? Who the hell made him do that? It's disturbing that a 16 year old had more of a clue on basic rights than the prosecuter that actually took him to court.

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