Alaska Gov. Parnell's Nominee Believes Sex Outside Of Marriage Should Be Illegal

I can see legitimate reasons to push that as a crime.

wow... unbelievable what these folk think...

Interestingly enough, he doesn't provide even one "legitimate reason".

And honestly, who would vote for such a law?

WOW! And they have the nerve to criticise the Taliban as regressive. I betcha his idea for penalty is stoning.

Well.....there goes half of the GOP.

The more I read about these extremist conservatives, the more I think they're trying to turn this country into a theocracy, regardless of what the Constitution forbids. It is time to re-assess our current "war on terror" and start funneling resources into fighting these domestic terrorists right here at home. No, I'm not exaggerating when I use the word "terrorists" to describe these religious zealots because that is precisely what they are. Dangerous elements within a society that threatens the basic rights of the citizen (especially those that disagree with their views or beliefs) by use of fear, intimidation and prejudice.

And Gov Parnell was handpicked by Gov Palin

before she went AWOL!

The nut doesn't fall too far from the tree, I say!

What would we expect from the Alaskan Governing Body? hummm? smile

Should extramarital affairs be illegal? Nope. Should they be elevated to the status of normal or acceptable? Nope.

Another Alaskan Republican doozy eh? Somebody needs to help them thar Alaskan officials keep their heads out of the snow. The ice is shattering their brains when it melts.

Ouch, men be careful what you wish for. You might get it- no sex without marriage means for the Republican men with their brains floating in the hefty clouds of their minds: no sex with out marriage including you. I can just see the young Republican male in his 20's making advances on his girlfriend or slowing down his car for a prostitute with his gonads bursting in sexual repression. The young lady turns and says, "Remember, Robbie. It was your daddy that made sex before marriage illegal. I'm not going to jail for this. Zip up the trousers." Or how about all those Republican leaders caught in the midst of extramarital affairs? They would be in jail... Well I say lets have sex without marriage a crime until we have nabbed all the Republicans who cheat, then we can change the law back again. That is always a good way to get rid of a Republican- make them the victims of their own laws.

Since gay marriage in Alaska is illegal outlawing extra-marrital sex would effectively outlaw homosexuality, something the Supreme Court has already settled as unconstitutional.

Frankly even among heterosexuals the whole idea of outlawing sexual acts involves an unconstitutional invasion of privacy via Lawrenve v. Texas.

I especially like, well actually dislike, Haase's comment that premarital sex could lead to violence. Okay, so lets make anything that has ever caused someone to harm another illegal to have. He probably make an exception for guns though.

I thought the republicans were for less government intrusion in everyday people lives. This guy would be taking a serious golden shower on republican ideology.

wow... unbelievable what these folk think...

Yes who in the right mind would think that extra marital affairs is wrong

stop trying to legislate morality between consenting adults...

I thought the republicans were for less government intrusion in everyday people lives

except for when they're for it.. which is most of the time...

Apparently he wants to arrest the Palin family.

Republicans are not the party of smaller government, the are the party of micro-management.

lefty just would see his voter base get locked up if it was a crime

Really? Seriously?

Who knew Newt Gingrich was a lefty? I sure didn't. Or is it ok for him because he loves his country so much?

Sha' TEA'ah law... the new radical right doctrine for the United States.. Once again... unless you want my busting up in your church with my governmennt in tow... keep your f'ing church outta my government...

Life is good.

Yes who in the right mind would think that extra marital affairs is wrong...any one who cheats on their spouse should be honored...

I can't recall any rational person on the right or the left who thinks extra marital affairs are positive and should be honored. Besides, this guy is talking about any sex outside of a legal marriage.

I am suprised that lefty hasnt come up with this idea as a way to promote Obamacare...

That would be as irrational as what this moron is proposing so I'm not surprised someone like you would come up with such an absurd notion.

Janeinthisworld,

Didn't Newt basically say his service to our country actually caused his infidelity? Rather than something something less ballsy and probably a tad more honest like "I loved serving my country and, at the same time, someone other than my wife."

Yes who in the right mind would think that extra marital affairs is wrong

That would also cover premarital sex too. It says sex outside of marriage. That means if you have two people who could be divorced and they would be breaking the law. Two people who are engaged and they would be breaking the law. This will never stand it just shows how extreme the right has become. It is going to be great when the right wing becomes extinct.

Who posted this garbage? Valspully big surprise there.

I am all for extra marrital sex hell that just means the wife and i have more fun in the bed room lol Just kidding.

On a serious note though i personally believe that it is wrong. However, people should have the freedom to decide for themselves. If you cant trust the person to be faithful to you then plain and simple don't marry them......DUH!

Isn't it funny that the righteous wingers say that Obama is infringing on their freedoms by forcing Obamacare on them but yet they want to tell a person what they can do in their own bedroom? Don't these people get confused about which side of their mouths they are talking out of?

Don Haase’s extreme position that sex outside of marriage should be illegal, his assurances may fall on deaf ears.

Sounds Extreme to me.... smile :-)

Don't these people get confused about which side of their mouths they are talking out of?

many appear to talk out of both sides at once....

Yes who in the right mind would think that extra marital affairs is wrong...any one who cheats on their spouse should be honored...right this diot says that cheating is not good for the children...but you lefties know that the children love this...in fact if a child does not come from a broken home...you have to ask what is wrong with this picture?

Typical conservative deflection tactic. Did anyone say that extramarital affairs isn't wrong? The question here isn't whether it is wrong but rather should it be a crime. Don't even attempt to bring Christian moral codes into our laws because not everyone is Christian (and proud of it).

Now what about the issue of making premarital sex a crime, a point which you did not address? By using Haase's logic, R rated movies/TV/cable programs, many video games, alcohol, certain perscription drugs, public demonstrations, social cliques, domestic arguments, or even mental illness should also be completely outlawed. After all, anecdotal evidence may suggest that all those things *could* contribute to some form of harmful behavior, including violence. Care to defend those twisted lines of reasoning? Oh wait, some GOP politicians have already tried to pass laws against some of those things. My mistake.

If you think that there is any merit to Haase's logic, perhaps you should turn your attention to outlawing firearms first. Of course I highly doubt that you conservatives would go along with that idea since it is inconvenient to your ideology. Oh noes, guns don't contribute to violence at all but extramarital/premarital sex does. Hypocrisy.

Right wingers go crazy in opposition of Sharia Law, and then try to impose their own version of it.

But the REPUBS are for small government that stays outta peoples live. PFFFFT!

It seems the Alaskan voters are seriously stupid. They elected two idiot governors in a row. How can we get them to cecede?

This guy would be taking a serious golden shower on republican ideology.

I think it's called 'trickle-down morality'.

It seems that there are 114 men to every 100 women in Alaska. They had better outlaw homosexuality too. Hey! Did you see the way that moose was looking at me? They really do have lovely big brown eyes.

Oh. About that idiot governor thing -- it's called inbreeding.

This could be resolved so easily. Marriage should be illegal. It is the only contract where neither are legally bound to their end of it. It is a joke bestowed upon the general population by religion. Get rid of it and we could get rid of so much government interference with the personal lives of people. But alas, it is necessary for a socialized society. It is a way to take from one and give to another without needing to abide by that whole constitutionality thing.

Be smart...don't get married. If we could outlaw marriage as the con-game it is, then this governor would be forced to figure out some other way to control people's personal lives. We can outlaw sweepstakes in certain states, gambling, and prostitution...but when it comes to biggest gamble of one's life, which amounts to nothing more than legal prostitution, and about the same odds of success as a sweepstakes, you are expected to buy into it. Hmmmm....

Is it possible to have a brain get frostbite? Might explain things......

Valpully:

but you lefties know that the children love this...in fact if a child does not come from a broken home...you have to ask what is wrong with this picture?

What is wrong with the picture is the idea that people would get arrested for this.

I can't add to the comments above so will take a different tack. How does one enforce a law like this? Squads of Peeping Toms? Sex-sniffing dogs? Condom-cams? What would the punishment be, the man AND woman both wearing a Scarlet Letter A? How about being put in the stocks in the center of town? How about imposing a fine? Let's say, ten bucks for each extra-marital boink. Who does the investigating? How?

A law outlawing extra-marital sex will have as much success as do many of our drug laws. We already have a war on drugs which is a failure. So now we need a war on sex?

C'mon, already.

Republicans are extremists.

Jaysus what is it about Conservatives that they have to stick their bloody noses in other peoples bedrooms? they make my fricking head hurt.

This is bs. Most of the politicians would be in jail if this were law. What I or others do in our bedrooms is ourown business and no one else's.

This is just aother way to make money off the people like they are trying to pass charging the people a tax on every mile they drive in their car.

Government crooks and thieves once looking at another way to rob the people of their money and their freedoms.

TAX the effen churches and religions that promote and cover up all their pedophilia if you want more money.

conservatives aren't getting enough, that's why they want to @!$%# everything else, ie unions economy etc,

Let's be fair. I think even most Republicans would say that the idea of criminalizing premarital sex is idiotic -- unless they're up for reelection.

Bah, this whole story would be moot if we simply enforced the bestiality laws. That way this half horse's-ass/half man wouldn't be around to lay these road apples on everyone elses lawn.

Should extramarital affairs be illegal?

Hmmm...how many politician can we get rid of with this law...

Ok so this guy thinks only married people should have sex. Who is going to know if someone has extramarital affairs and how can it be anyone's business? I would think there will be a mass exodus from Alaska if this one is bought and sold.

No doubt he would also support a bill making the punishment for having sex out of wedlock death by stoning.

Where the hell are all these dangerous, jackboot-wearing, goosestepping lunatics coming from?! All of a sudden, ever since the last election when all these 'new' GOP characters took office, I feel like our government has been overtaken with dangerous maniacs hell-bent on creating a facist state right here in the United States! Is it just me? I've always scoffed at people who made statements like this before, and now I'm the one who's starting to believe it. I am getting seriously worried here!

Okay, people, get your pile of stones ready for all those Republicans caught with their pants down in the wrong house with the wrong woman (or baring the toesies to play footsies with the wrong man. Justice shall fly with the stones.

Yes who in the right mind would think that extra marital affairs is wrong...any one who cheats on their spouse should be honored...right this diot says that cheating is not good for the children...but you lefties know that the children love this...in fact if a child does not come from a broken home...you have to ask what is wrong with this picture?

Wow, two strawman logical fallacies in one paragraph...could you please point out who said cheaters should be honored, AND, who said cheating is good for children?

C'mon, val...you made the assertion...now pony up...show me just ONE "lefty" who said either of the above. Just one.

*Waits and listens to the crickets*

Christine O'Donnell was at the forefront of this GOP/Teabagger movement to criminalize sex. Remember she said that masturbation was equal to adultery..omg this means that many jobs will open up in the Masturbation Police field!

Silvaria wrote:

Wow, two strawman logical fallacies in one paragraph...could you please point out who said cheaters should be honored, AND, who said cheating is good for children?

Just a technical point - one's a strawman and the other's a false dilemma, not that valpully would understand the difference.

And I'm just going to go to my government and say "Guess what? I just had sex!"

How does he plan to regulate this? Stick police inside college dorms and wait for the thumping?

No wonder Bristol Palin moved to Arizona.

Just a technical point - one's a strawman and the other's a false dilemma, not that valpully would understand the difference.

Heh...my bad, and touche'. 8P

any one who cheats on their spouse should be honored...right this diot says that cheating is not good for the children...but you lefties know that the children love this

Well, I guess by your generalization a certain Republican who cheated on his wife and dropped off divorce papers while she's hospitalized for cancer treatment should be switching parties instead of running as a Republican candidate in 2012.

Yoshu,

The circumstances were very different; I am not sure how though, god knows, but very different I do believe...ummmm, very, very different...

Is it just me, or do the party of NO seem to obsessed with other peoples sex lives ??

Must be because they are so miserable in their own.

Yeah make everything agaist the law, then we will have to raise taxes to 100% of everyones income to pay for the prison's, the officer's, and court's ... Won't your corporate buddies just love you then ??? LOL

Dude get your mind off of what other people do in the privacy of their own home's. What they do is between them their spouse and God, or them their sexual partner and God. It is none of our business, and frankly I don't want to try to remove the speck from their eye while you are walking around with a whole building in your's.

I'm not God, and neither are any other's here on earth. So stop trying to play God and just live the moral life you choose and let that be an example !!!

Sex outside of marriage should be illegal,

So it should be. Women need to save themselves, and keep themselves pure for their husbands. America is falling into the hands of the liberal thinkers that want to destroy the morals of the homeland. It should be illegal for a woman to have sex out of marriage to protect those morals. I have a daughter, if I found she had been messing about with another man, I would be prepared to disinherit her. America needs to move away from the free for all takers, and get back to a solid moralistic administration.

Maybe you could stone her, or set her on fire, or cut off her nose... She's a disgrace to the family...

That'd teach her.

(Oh wait, it this starting to sound like Sharia law?)

Hypocrite.

Don't you people have jobs?

(Oh wait, it this starting to sound like Sharia law?)

I said I would disinherit her. Women should be 1. Proud of their virginity and faithful to their husbands. That should be the law. Is that starting to sound like (Oh wait, it this starting to sound like Sharia law?) You have been reading too many anti American seeds on here.

r m S:

#1.56

You would disinherit your daughter ?? Because she had sex before she was maried, or was unfaithful to her husband ?? Whatever happened to unconditional love ??

Whatever happened to forgiveness and compassion ?? Did Jesus Christ disinherit all of us when we sinned ?? No He died for us all while we yet sinners, fogiving us and calling on us to forgive as He did.

That is the problem with the Republican party, they think they are holy. But they have holes in their souls where their love and compassion is supposed to be.

It is not anti American seeds it is anti Republican seeds. Big difference in case you can't tell the difference. But seeing as how you already stated it is anti American it seems as if you may not know the difference.

The Republican Party is a bunch of legalistic, back biting, two timing, lying, propagandising, blind hypocrites who are concerned with appearances while not worrying about the people they are supposed to serve !!!

You have been reading too many anti American seeds on here.

The right wing has been talking about too many anti American legislative objectives. The right wing has become too extreme. Their extremism is going to destroy their party, hopefully they won't take the country down with them.

Um... yeah. Sounds a lot like sharia law...

Proud of their virginity? (what exactly has "pride" got to do with anything?) Faithful to their husbands? (what about obedient? what about subservient?)

Just because you'd (supposedly) stop at "disowning" your daughter, (and I imagine you don't consider yourself extreme) what would keep the "hardcore" Xstians from taking it a STEP FURTHER?

America is being swept away by Liberal free thinking. They think everything should be free. I want to see women conforming. No sex before or beyond marriage. I don’t agree with stoning or burning. Just a short term in jail.

DFTT.

#1.60

Hey perhaps we could make them have a great big scarlet A sewed upon all of their clothes, and put them in the public stockade, where people can come by and spew their venomous remarks of vile hatred at them. Then we could talk about them as if they were the most vile people on earth. Yeah, that's the ticket.

That would really show them the love of the "christians" who claim to know Christ, but really know His enemy the devil, and live in the way of the devil. Being an accuser and a spiteful user of God's holy name in order to perpetuate their own ideals of righteousnes.

Run away poser. You cannot see through the darkness of your own self righteousness.

America is being swept away by Liberal free thinking. They think everything should be free. I want to see women conforming. No sex before or beyond marriage. I don’t agree with stoning or burning. Just a short term in jail.

It seems to me that America has been going the way of the conservative think for the majority of the past thirty years and look where it has led us. I would have to give the conservs a failing grade. I think we should jail people who want to impose their religious views on everyone else.

So it should be. Women need to save themselves, and keep themselves pure for their husbands. America is falling into the hands of the liberal thinkers that want to destroy the morals of the homeland. It should be illegal for a woman to have sex out of marriage to protect those morals. I have a daughter, if I found she had been messing about with another man, I would be prepared to disinherit her. America needs to move away from the free for all takers, and get back to a solid moralistic administration.

Pardon my french but to hell with your religious sermonizing. I'm not Christian nor do I subscribe to your belief system. Last I checked, Christianity is not the official state religion of the United States thus such decrees and moralizing have no place in formulating the laws of the land. The First Amendment is quite clear on this;

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

For the ignorant (meaning you), the first part is the "Establishment Clause" and the second part being the "Free Exercise Clause". You have violated both by trying to impose your religious beliefs onto others through the use of criminal prosecution. It simply amazes me that even though the Constitution was written over two centuries ago, some conservatives are still completely ignorant of its existance. Time to put down the Bible and pick up some history books.

With that said, you are of course entitled to your beliefs but don't you dare attempt to impose your brand of religious diarrhea on me or anyone else. Contrary to what many right wing religious zealots think, I don't need to be "saved" nor do I recognize the qualification of any human being in claiming to be able to acheive such things. It is utter arrogance to think that you can "save" anyone when you have already demonstrated that your own mentality is demented beyond reason. I have a better idea. Instead of trying to impose your ideology onto others, you should crusade against your own blind ignorance and self righteousness.

Gordon H., wish I could vote you up 100 times. Well said!!!

#1.55 -"Oh wait, it this starting to sound like Sharia law"

Sharia Law, Teabag Law, same difference. Imposed by mental defectives in different parts of the world.

rms,

I have a problem believeing that anyone could possibly be as ignorant as you try to come off as (we eliminated that kind when the 3rd Reich fell).

DNFTT folks.

Nightbreeeze wrote:

rms,

I have a problem believeing that anyone could possibly be as ignorant as you try to come off as

Even after reading all of rms's posts, I've got to believe that it's satire, because, as you say, nobody could possibly be that ignorant.

DNFTT

So it should be. Women need to save themselves, and keep themselves pure for their husbands....It should be illegal for a woman to have sex out of marriage to protect those morals. I have a daughter, if I found she had been messing about with another man, I would be prepared to disinherit her.

I want to see women conforming. No sex before or beyond marriage.

1. Proud of their virginity and faithful to their husbands. That should be the law.

3 comments focusing on women's behavior, absolutely nada said about holding men accountable for sexual activities. From what I understand of the subject, that kind of emphasis also bears some resemblance to Sharia.

Lemme guess, Gingrich gets a free pass on his extramarital activities since he's a Repub and an "outie."

Someone's given me the impression that they're either a guy who's a shameless misogynist willing to gloss over other guy's actions in a "boys will be boys" kind of way, or a clone of the mother from "Carrie."

Newt 'did it for his country' [or his version of it].