Chicken Scratch

July 21, 2006

Playing House No Longer a Crime in North Carolina

Whew!  Imagine our relief.  Ed and I officially no longer have to fear incarceration for our ungodly shacking-up.

 

Today’s Raleigh News & Observer  (and sadly, now CNN - I say “sadly” because our fine state has a nasty little habit of only making the national news when it’s something utterly humiliating like this) report today that a North Carolina judge has ruled our 201-year-old law barring unmarried couples from living together unconstitutional.

 

The ACLU of NC’s Executive Director Jennifer Rudinger said the ruling showed that “the government has no business regulating relationships between two consenting adults in the privacy of their own home.”  Hmm, what a concept!  And it only took us 201 years.

 

(And yes, our wedding is still on.  It’s just nice knowing that our government, on this issue at least, can no longer push its silly puritanical beliefs on us.)

 

 

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