Lilith
04-20-2003, 06:32 PM
Councilman: 'So this is a pro-adultery thing? Good for us!'
The city council of an affluent gated town in southern California has repealed an official ban on immorality, giving legitimacy to those who might commit adultery within city limits, reports the Torrance, Calif., Daily Breeze.
The repeal also gives the wealthy youngsters of the town legal freedom – at least on a municipal level – to engage in premarital sex.
On Monday, the Rolling Hills City Council voted to take the 46-year-old ordinance banning "immoral conduct" off the books.
"So, this is a pro-adultery thing?" joked Councilman James Black before the meeting, according to the paper. "Good for us!"
The council members claim they are not endorsing the breaking of the seventh commandment, but simply doing away with an archaic, unenforceable law. The statute was the second one adopted by the city when it was first incorporated in 1957.
The law bans immoral conduct that it defines as "any person exposing his or her person or the private parts thereof; or the doing of any other act with the intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of any person to whom he or she is not married."
Also prohibited is "the act of any person occupying, using or being present in any bed, room, automobile, structure or public place with a person of the opposite sex, to whom he or she is not married, for the purpose of having sexual intercourse with said person."
According to the Daily Breeze report, violators of the law could get slapped with a $250 fine and/or three months in jail.
A resident of the city, which has 1,900 residents, spotted the law when perusing the municipal code and mentioned it at a city council meeting.
"Why this particular law has been dormant and allowed to remain on the books all these years is anyone's guess," contract City Attorney Mike Jenkins of Manhattan Beach, Calif., told the paper. "I frankly wasn't even aware it was in there."
Jenkins recommended the ordinance's removal.
Nearby Torrance, Calif., has a 1924 ordinance banning unmarried men and women from living together – or occupying the same hotel room – in the city. It is still on the books, according to the Daily Breeze.
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The city council of an affluent gated town in southern California has repealed an official ban on immorality, giving legitimacy to those who might commit adultery within city limits, reports the Torrance, Calif., Daily Breeze.
The repeal also gives the wealthy youngsters of the town legal freedom – at least on a municipal level – to engage in premarital sex.
On Monday, the Rolling Hills City Council voted to take the 46-year-old ordinance banning "immoral conduct" off the books.
"So, this is a pro-adultery thing?" joked Councilman James Black before the meeting, according to the paper. "Good for us!"
The council members claim they are not endorsing the breaking of the seventh commandment, but simply doing away with an archaic, unenforceable law. The statute was the second one adopted by the city when it was first incorporated in 1957.
The law bans immoral conduct that it defines as "any person exposing his or her person or the private parts thereof; or the doing of any other act with the intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of any person to whom he or she is not married."
Also prohibited is "the act of any person occupying, using or being present in any bed, room, automobile, structure or public place with a person of the opposite sex, to whom he or she is not married, for the purpose of having sexual intercourse with said person."
According to the Daily Breeze report, violators of the law could get slapped with a $250 fine and/or three months in jail.
A resident of the city, which has 1,900 residents, spotted the law when perusing the municipal code and mentioned it at a city council meeting.
"Why this particular law has been dormant and allowed to remain on the books all these years is anyone's guess," contract City Attorney Mike Jenkins of Manhattan Beach, Calif., told the paper. "I frankly wasn't even aware it was in there."
Jenkins recommended the ordinance's removal.
Nearby Torrance, Calif., has a 1924 ordinance banning unmarried men and women from living together – or occupying the same hotel room – in the city. It is still on the books, according to the Daily Breeze.
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com