Wednesday, June 26, 2002
ACLU challenges Georgia state law which make sex outside of marriage illegal
A story published today by the Ledger-Inquirer reports that the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation filed a brief with the Georgia’s state Supreme Court challenging a state statute which outlaws sexual intercourse between unmarried couples.
In 1998, the court overturned a controversial anti-sodomy law, saying it violated the Georgia Constitution's guarantee of a right to privacy.
"We hope this case finally gets the state of Georgia out of our bedrooms," said Georgia ACLU attorney Beth Littrell in a statement. "Most unmarried people would be outraged if they knew that their private, consensual expressions of intimacy turned them into criminals."
According to the 2000 census, nearly 150,000 Georgians live together as couples.
