Regarding ADULTERY: Should it be illegal? A crime? why or why not?

I think that is should be considered the illegal breaking of a contract. Marriage is a contract. Some contracts are broken, but there are penalties for breaking them. Breaking a marriage contract causes extremely serious harm to many people. It's reasonable to think they should have to pay a penalty for this harm, not just be able to walk away from the debris of someone else's life free to go have fun somewhere else (with someone foolish enough to trust such a betrayer!) So if an adulterous partner destroys a marriage, a family, and someone's economic stability, they should be punished. The breaking of contracts is punished by requiring a monetary payment to compensate the victim for the damages.

And boy, would that ever be expensive!! Most guys wouldn't be able to afford it.

In what manner is marriage "foundational" to the nation? All it is ever been is a civil agreement, both a trade partnership or a switch of estate. The suggestion that it is extra is solely a devout educating, and, beneath the first Amendment, we do not enable legislation compelling folks to comply with one faith, or forbidding them from following one other. The marriage legislation have been a outcome of social stipulations which made it unattainable for ladies to gain fiscal independence, as the ones stipulations have converted growing numbers of ladies have selected to not marry. The Christians would possibly item, however, within the phrases of John Adams, "As the Government of the United States isn't, in any experience, based at the Christian faith, the United States isn't a Christian Nation any further than this is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation."

I have heard of several civil lawsuits being filed against

adulterers and their adulterous partners in the USA but

I don't believe I have ever heard of anyone being brought

up on criminal charges in modern times.

In some muslim & 3rd world countries adulterers can be stoned to death, beheaded , executed or imprisoned .

No, it shouldn't be illegal.

There are no jobs in prison that enable a cheating parent to financially support his/her children, for one thing.

Edit: Not all men earn at the level of a credit card processor. That might be ideal for children whose parents were common "street criminals" and earning NOTHING but stolen TVs, but high-income men cheat on their wives, too.

Prison jobs might exist in some cases, but they don't pay well- ever.

No, it should not be illegal. As the Prime Minister of Canada once said: "The government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation"

And, you never make a law that cannot be enforced. Are our prisons nit full enough already. Something that is between two consenting adults is none of the government's business.

Yes! I agree! Let's put adulterers in a burlap sack with a rabies infested dog, an HIV ridden monkey, a poisonous spider, and poisonous scorpion for 10mins.

If the adulterer lives then he/she has a second chance to redeem. If he/she dies, well that's what they get for cheating.

More than half of the world's population would be in jail. ( ^ _ ^ )

No, because that's really stupid and based on religion.