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church, the community at large, or even the heavy-hand of government is
arrayed against you. Consider the April 2008 raid of an FLDS polygamist
compound in Eldorado, Texas, where state troopers and Child Protective
Services agents swooped in with armored vehicles and placed over 400 children
in “protective custody” on the basis of a prank telephone call.
Think something like that couldn’t ever happen to you? Think again.
Legal Issues
It’s easy to have faith in the courts and in our judicial system, until you actually
find yourself suddenly at its mercy. When you consider the fifty U.S. states, five
major U.S. territories, the District of Columbia, and the Uniform Code of
Military Justice, there are close to sixty different sets of laws governing what is
or isn’t legal to do in the privacy of your own bedroom. As if that weren’t bad
enough, each legal jurisdiction gets to arbitrarily decide which laws they want to
enforce and/or prosecute in the courts. That discretionary latitude is not reserved
solely for the states themselves; it is often exercised by cities, counties and
townships. As late as 2012, twenty-three U.S. states still had laws against
adultery on the books, but when was the last time you heard of someone being
arrested for that particular crime? In Massachusetts, Idaho, Michigan,
Oklahoma and Wisconsin, adultery is a felony. In the other eighteen states that
consider it a crime, it is a misdemeanor.
Did you know that, as of 2013, mere cohabitation with a person of the opposite
sex who is not your spouse is still illegal in three U.S. states? Those states
would be Mississippi, Florida and Michigan, by the way. This is despite the fact
that, according to the Census Bureau’s 2009 American Community Survey, 58%
of all women aged 19-44 have, at some point, lived with a man who was not
their legal spouse. In fact, these arcane laws are still on the books despite the
landmark ruling in Lawrence vs. Texas (2003), in which the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that laws against cohabitation were unconstitutional. And yet, there they
are.
You probably think you know what the word sodomy means, and if so, you’re
probably wrong. U.S. courts have historically interpreted sodomy to mean “any
sexual act deemed to be unnatural or immoral.” Traditionally, the courts have
defined that further to mean oral sex, anal sex and bestiality; but the
implications of the broader definition for someone in the fetish lifestyle are