Archaic Virginia laws: Virginia is NOT for lovers

 

NOT lovers

 

Several decades ago, when Virginia adopted the slogan “Virginia is for Lovers” someone apparently hadn’t read the Code of Virginia.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Virginia is for the nunnery!

For some proof, let’s see what Huffington Post has uncovered (blush).

Only one or two centuries late, Virginia lawmakers have decided it is none of their business if unmarried couples share a roof. So the legislators are now working diligently to repeal the state’s law against “lewd and lascivious cohabitation.” Huzzahs all ’round for that.

But do not unclutch thy bodice yet. Virginia law is riddled with antiquated provisions meant to govern the “morals and decency” of the fair people of the commonwealth. And while the law against shacking up apparently never gets enforced, others do.

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Super Bowl XLVII

CONGRATULATIONS RAVENS! WINNERS OF SUPERBOWL 47!

There will be good times in Bal’mer tonight!

 

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Meanwhile, from the Howler House,

GO   Ravens!!!

 

 

 

Contraception Compromises Continue

Sandra Fluke weighs to this lastest leg of the controversy:

What else has happened? How could the President compromise any more?  Its hard to imagine.

Nytimes.com:

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday proposed yet another compromise to address strenuous objections from religious organizations about a policy requiring health insurance plans to provide free contraceptives, but the change did not end the political furor or legal fight over the issue.

The proposal could expand the number of groups that do not need to pay directly for birth control coverage, encompassing not only churches and other religious organizations, but also some religiously affiliated hospitals, universities and social service agencies. Health insurance companies would pay for the coverage.

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