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Originally posted by KSig RC
I was referring mostly to federal law - obviously the 'rape and assault' portion moved from there, but regardless, a few random state laws created far after the framers does not a point disprove, no?
I'm assuming you're not arguing the central point, which was that the laws were based more on 'infringing upon others' than 'what the Bible says is wrong'.
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Not arguing at all. I agree completely, with the caveat that the laws (and there were, I think, more than a few random ones) were, to some degree, pulled in from the English common law many states inherited and otherwise based on "infringing on others." As for federal law, laws of this kind are (or were until recently) typically state laws, not federal, unless some federal issue, like crossing state lines, was implicated.
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