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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (112067)	3/11/2008 2:29:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

If you take your girlfriend out of state on vacation with you, you are guilty. Well the law is very vague, and that might be considered "immoral purposes" by some, but generally it would have to involve something more than taking your girlfriend on a vacation. Something like prostitution, or under age sex. In the past, it would have had a wider application because the "immoral purpose", could have been "sodomy", but the Supreme Court struck down the sodomy laws across the US. I wonder if taking a woman to a Nevada brothel to become a prostitute (whether or not you actually pay for sex with her), would be considered "immoral purposes" under the law. The fact that her prostitution would be legal, would seem to mean that a prosecution wouldn't work so well. The Mann act certainly is a vague law though, so some prosecutor could try to prosecute even your example of taking someone out of state and having sex with them, when the sex clearly doesn't violate any other law. Vague laws are very problematic and "immoral purposes" is very vague. Edit - BTW I would be against any widespread application of anything like the Mann act, even if it did have a bunch of listed specific "immoral actions" that it was against. The only way I see it as being potentially a good idea, is when the sex act is otherwise a crime without the Mann act, but even then such crimes should generally be issues for the states. And in any case I thin prostitution should be legal (also many other things that are currently illegal, I have a large libertarian streak)