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The Right to Adultery?

Alan from NJ Wrote: Mar 19, 2010 1:50 AM
What did the couple promise, mutually understood and stated?
Look at the healthy kids. Where, generally, do they come from? Look at the walking wounded.
(anyone can come up with anecdotal, and sometimes personal exceptions, but generally.)
Edwards made a choice. Libertines applaud. Like ripples in a pond, the human suffering will expand and last for generations. Unexpected consequences?

Seeing Rielle Hunter sprawled like an aging model on the pages of GQ raises once again the question: Should there be a legal right to commit adultery?

The ACLU says yes, and so does much of the family law bar that seeks to strip the law of all vestiges of "judgmentalism" (at least when it comes to sex). But what do the rest of us think?

Here's what I think: There's something wrong with a society that permits adultery to become a pathway to commercial success.

Adultery involves twin offenses: (1) the violation by a married person...

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