The following report is by WWJ.950 News Radio:
In Michigan it has long been against the law for unmarried couples to live together, carrying a penalty of up to a year in prison.
Of course, it has been a long time since the bill has been enforced.
The last time a person was charged under this section of the Code is not known.
A summary of the bill says.
The state Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal the law with legislation sponsored by Sen. Stephanie Chang of Detroit.
It passed by a vote of 29-9, with all nine “no” votes coming from Republicans.
The bill would amend the Michigan Penal Code to delete a provision that prohibits a man and woman, who are not married to each other, from “lewdly and lasciviously associating and cohabitating together.”
The bill, though, would retain a provision that prohibits any individual, married or unmarried, from “engaging in open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.”
SEE: Kalamazoo Michigan Passes Law Decriminalizing Public Urination, Defecation, And Littering
Chang says the law will help reduce the taxpayer burden for some people in the state and place taxpayers “on equal footing” with taxpayers in “almost every other state.”
And it will bring us to our current century and really just update our laws.
She said.
But the vote to repeal the nearly century-old law didn’t come without opposition, with some claiming it will allow people to cheat on their taxes by claiming others as dependents. Others had moral concerns.
Sen. Ed McBroom of the Upper Peninsula was among those to vote against the bill.
Government exists to provide for the general welfare by protecting people from evil and danger and by promoting the common good. The repeal of this law is not a promotion of the common good.
He said.
McBroom said Wednesday cohabitation has been consistently shown to “decrease the resilience and permanence of marriage and to decrease the potential that marriage happens at all.”
Meanwhile, marriage has been consistently shown to be the gold standard by which a stable society is maintained.
He said.
Sen. Thomas Albert of West Michigan said he agrees the criminal penalty “is an unjustified means to an end and it should be removed,” but he’s worried about tax implications it may have.
I cannot, however, close my eyes to the secondary effects of this bill. I very easily would be a ‘yes’ on this bill if the tax structure continued to encourage marriage because there is an overwhelming benefit for the growth and development of our children.
He said.
The bill can be read in its entirety on the state legislature’s website. The bill now goes to the state House for consideration.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
As noted in this report, the state and law enforcement was never really enforcing this for a long time, just like other states that have similar laws.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews 13:4
Be that as it may, this represents yet another turning point in this country and how far it has fallen, that marriage has gone by the wayside, replaced by fooling around and having “friends with benefits” has become the new norm (because of feminism and bed-hopping beta male cucks).
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 1 Timothy 4:1-3
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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America’s sex perversion culture is seeping in through every nook and cranny and marriages as well as finding a partner are stifled.
Woe unto America!