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- NATION, Page 33American NotesCONNECTICUTNo Crime For Love
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- Adultery may still be a sin in Connecticut, but it's no longer
- a crime. Last week Governor Lowell Weicker signed legislation
- repealing the state's 18th century law that made it a crime for
- a married man or woman to have sexual intercourse outside of
- marriage.
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- Like the antiadultery laws still on the books in about
- half the states, Connecticut's statute was rarely enforced. But
- last summer four people were arrested in separate incidents on
- the basis of complaints by their angry spouses. Though none of
- them were prosecuted, lawmakers feared that the legal ban might
- be invoked more often as a weapon in divorce cases. Under the
- new measure, adultery can still be used as grounds for divorce
- but will no longer be subject to penalties of state law. The
- higher law, presumably, still applies.
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