Alaska governor’s pick for key post wants to criminalize adultery, premarital sex

[RamboLiberal]

Republican Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell's nominee for the Alaska Judiciary Council would like to see Alaskans prosecuted for having sex outside marriage.

In telephone testimony, Don Haase of Valdez told the state Senate Judiciary Committee that premarital sex should be outlawed because it could "cause violence" and "spread disease," according to The Anchorage Daily News.

Haase admitted to the committee that he had failed to disclose that he had been president of Eagle Forum Alaska, a blog that advocates for conservative principles.

Members of the committee noted that one blog post at the website called for the criminalization of adultery.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/25/alaska-governors-pick-for-key-post-wants-to-criminalize-adultery-premarital-sex/

Be a ton of Repubs charged!

[MichiganVote]

1. Sure. Just alert the Palins.

[malaise]

16. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! You stole my post

:rofl:

[davepc]

2. American Theocracy

[highplainsdem]

3. Every time you think the GOP can't get crazier...

[LonePirate]

4. More blatant Republican hypocrisy!

They campaign on less government intrusion into their lives and then they advocate the most humanly invasive laws imaginable. They pass bans against Sharia Law fearing the institution of extremet Muslim religious principles; but they advocate the passage of extreme Judeo-Christian religious principles.

They truly are banking on the stupidity of Americans.

[Boojatta]

18. What's intrusive about it?

They could simply forbid each unmarried man from being in public unless accompanied by an adult woman who is a relative of the given unmarried man.

[tanyev]

5. What's the penalty? Death by stoning?

[asjr]

6. Churches will no longer be known as

the House of God. It will be the House of Republicans.

[Prohaira]

11. actually, only those taken over by Dominionists >Link> but the Dark Side is insidiously creeping

into all aspects of everyday life. Dominionism has become Shadow Government, it controls the purse strings of the GOP, electing its own over competent candidates. they are often easy to recognize, they are usually poorly if at all educated, they have frequently never held a real job, and they can whip up a crowd as good as Hitler. the comparison is not casual. today's Dominionism was started by a Nazi Refugee here in 1934, Abraham Vereide. Doug Coe of the C street Fellowship, who call themselves the "Christian Mafia", was Abraham Vereide's Protege.

this site is very informative on dominionism
http://doggo.tripod.com/doggchrisdomin.html

http://blog.buzzflash.com/hartmann/10016

[walldude]

7. But then all the Republicans would be in jail..

Shit Newt and Rush would have to do 3 years in solitary as many times as they've cheated..

[Drale]

8. I want to criminalize stupid but

we don't always get our way do we?

[jillan]

9. Uh Oh Bristol, you're going to jail.

[Guilded Lilly]

10. Yo...Republicans...will you please keep your gawddayamed

hypocritical sex-obsessed morality out of the lives of everyone else on the planet and focus on correcting your OWN twisted sexual agendas?

[seabeyond]

12. i want more, more, more... and divorce, illegal.

just sayin

[markpkessinger]

13. Gotta hand it to those small government conservatives...

...they sure know how to keep the government out of people's private liv...oh, wait...

[FiveGoodMen]

14. Death to all theocrats. eom

[Curmudgeoness]

15. And you think we are losing that war on drugs! nt

[butterfly77]

17. Please let him do it...

[Brigid]

19. All hilarity aside . . .

Didn't some states have laws like this in the past, which were struck down on Constitutional grounds?

[Generic Other]

20. Palins go to jail first-- mom and daughter share a cell

what a ridiculous idea.

[kelly1mm]

21. Adultery is already a crime in about 1/2 of the states. In MI, the (potential)

penalty is up to life in prison. In MD, it is a misdemeanor with a max $10 fine. In MD, the biggest "benefit" of the fact that it is a crime is one can plead the 5th rather than have to answer detailed questions on the record and in open Court concerning the affair.

Also, UCMJ penalties for adultery are up to court martial.

[sabrina 1]

22. He's not thinking straight. The adultery law would wipe out

most of the Republican Party.

[11 Bravo]

23. Paging Mr. Gingrich ... Mr. Newt Gingrich ... please report to the nearest holding cell ...

to await trial and sentencing.