Marriage is Under Attack!!

[oberliner]

By lecherous 47-year-old men and the teenagers they sleep with!

They are destroying the sanctity of marriage.

Brinkley Hubby Fesses to Philanderin'

Peter Cook is turning his marital problems with Christie Brinkley into a public affair.

An even more public affair, that is.

The 47-year-old architect has finally fessed up to reports that he carried on a yearlong relationship with his personally hired teenage office assistant and has issued an apology to his estranged wife.

"I love my wife," Cook said in a statement released through his lawyer to the New York Post--a very personal touch. "I have loved her since the day I met her.

"For a lifetime I've tried to prove how much I love her. This is an aberration. I'm sorry. I'm contrite. I'm stupid. Foolish. No excuse."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060725/en_celeb_eo/19585

[mom cat]

1. It is also illegal in most states!

[TahitiNut]

4. Under what law?

Sexual harrassment on the job? I doubt it. As for her age, she was 18 and, despite the senastionalistic overuse of the word "teenager" in the story, that's a legal age of consent in all states.

:shrug: Tacky? Sure. Cheating? Ubetcha. Illegal? I don't see it.

[mom cat]

5. I was misled by the term "teenager".

[TahitiNut]

6. That's understandable. The media has adopted tabloid rhetoric

... and "teenager" is one of the words that raises all kinds of red flags in my mind. When I saw that her actual age was buried (and obfuscated) in the story, I became certain that the reporting was deliberately inflammatory.

One of the disastrous side-effects of a slide toward "Blue Laws" is the common presumption that "If it's not illegal then it must be OK." Law is a horrible determinant of ethics and morality and those who either rely upon it for such guidance or attempt to make it even more reflective of their personal moral viewpoint do so at great risk to the development of social consciousness.

[mom cat]

7. So true.

[JohnnyLib]

2. According to Coulter,

he's gay. Can't you see that?

[MadMaddie]

3. Hah....goood one..