#65 finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Interesting.... after reading FIB's comment I checked out my state and found the following:

In Michigan, adultery is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison.

The Michigan Legislature has defined adultery as “the sexual intercourse of 2 persons, either of whom is married to a third person.”

The criminal statutes can be found on the Michigan Legislature’s website here:

http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-328-1931-V


So why hasn’t the crime of adultery been prosecuted in Michigan since 1971?

An obvious answer might be this: Because most of the officials responsible for the enforcement of this law are currently or have previously engaged in adulterous activities themselves.

This means that if this law was prosecuted, even once, these officials themselves would become at risk of having this law enforced on them as well.

Michigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox admitted to having an adulterous affair several years ago… If he can do it and get away with it - what kind of message does that send to the public? He might as well have issued a press release telling people “It’s OK to cheat, look at me…”

So we say this to state officials: Beware. Our goal is to either have this law enforced, or repealed.

At least if the law is repealed, our Legislature can properly send this message to the State of Michigan: “We don’t care about protecting our society or about laws designed to promote family stability - we care more about creating profitable controversy for our legal system and keeping our philandering state officials out of prison.”