{"id":40293,"date":"2019-03-27T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=40293"},"modified":"2019-03-27T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:42:54","slug":"will-utah-legalize-fornication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=40293","title":{"rendered":"“Will Utah legalize fornication?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you still want to believe we live in one country, do read this, from Kevin Underhill at LoweringTheBar.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, in case you still want to believe lots and lots of people have a sense of humor, do click on the link above and read on. Two things will happen: (1) you’ll fall down laughing and (2) you’ll make plans never to visit Utah.<\/p>\n

Here’s how Kevin begins “Will Utah legalize fornication?”:<\/p>\n

It wants to.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, it wants to so very badly.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, okay, a majority of the legislature wants to, mainly just because laws like this are unenforceable anyway. But for the moment, this is still the law in Utah:<\/em><\/p>\n

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(1) Any unmarried person who shall voluntarily engage in sexual intercourse with another is guilty of fornication.<\/em><\/p>\n

(2) Fornication is a class B misdemeanor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Utah Crim. Code \u00a7 76-7-104 (1973)<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because I\u2019m apparently unable to write up anything without venturing down one or more rabbit holes, despite the cost to my billable hours, I will inform you that according to the OED<\/em>, the word\u00a0fornicate<\/em>\u00a0derives from the Latin term\u00a0fornix<\/em>, which means \u201carch.\u201d The connection is supposedly that in ancient Rome, prostitutes waited for customers under arches so they could stay out of the rain. Over time, fornix<\/em> became a euphemism for \u201cbrothel\u201d; the man who visited one was\u00a0a\u00a0fornicarius<\/em>. And what he did there, obviously, was fornicate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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