Slippery Slope?
Court: Lesbian sex cannot be adulteryIf a married woman has sex with another woman, is that adultery? The New Hampshire Supreme Court, ruling in a divorce case, says no.
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"I think the majority opinion is unintentionally trivializing same-sex relations and violating modern notions of the sanctity of marriage," said Marcus Hurn, a professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center.
A sexual relationship, whether heterosexual or homosexual, is "exactly an equivalent betrayal and that, I think, is the ordinary meaning most people would give."
But the majority did not want the New Hampshire courts to step onto the slippery slope of defining which sex acts outside of intercourse might amount to adultery.
"This standard would permit a hundred different judges ... to decide just what individual acts are so sexually intimate as to meet the definition," the court said.
Do you suppose man-on-man action would change their minds?
* Ray, 11/09/2003 11:09:59 AM
