Adultery was back in the courts last week. No need to check your calendars. It’s 2021 — not 1821 — and adultery is legislated in New Hampshire. I’m trying to wrap my head around why and how, in Live Free or Die territory, this is considered a state matter. Adultery might go against one’s vows, one’s values and even one’s religious beliefs. But against one’s state of residence?
In 2003, the New Hampshire Supreme Court defined adultery as extramarital intercourse between a man and a woman. Last week that case was overturned in a landmark ruling that “updated” the state’s adultery definition so as to include same-sex hanky panky. Regarding equal rights, New Hampshire is one of the most LGBTQ-friendly states in the country. Kudos for righting yet another inequality by including gay sex in the adultery definition!
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