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To: LindyBill who wrote (95430)	1/15/2005 9:16:47 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793957

Our Virginia posters are safe now. :>) Volokh Conspiracy VIRGINIA'S FORNICATION LAW has been struck down: The state Supreme Court yesterday struck down as unconstitutional a 19th-century Virginia law making it a crime for unmarried couples to have sex. "We find no principled way to conclude . . . that the Virginia statute criminalizing intercourse between unmarried persons does not improperly abridge a personal relationship that is within the liberty interest of persons to choose," said the decision, written by Justice Elizabeth B. Lacy. . . . The opinion did not deal with a separate Virginia law prohibiting sodomy. But attorneys for both parties in the case said it suggested that the court considers most laws regulating sex between consenting adults to be unconstitutional violations of the 14th Amendment's right to due process. About time.