In Other Commandment-Breaking News, Eliot Spitzer Charged With Coveting His Neighbor's Ass

[captainsblog]

This is a story, getting international attention, that's just getting curioser and curioser.

The first reports on it, late last week, were weird enough: that police in Batavia (a small city about halfway between here and Rachacha) had arrested a couple for doing the nasty on a picnic table in a city park. All I could think to say in response to that was, mmmmm, splinters.

It got a bit stranger yesterday, when reports came out that the prosecutors had not only charged the couple with public lewdness, but the woman, a 41 year old, also got a criminal charge of adultery tacked on, since the arresting officer knew that she was married. According to state criminal justice records, it's the first adultery charge in New York State since 2006 and only the 12th in the entire state since 1972, by which time prosecutors had generally found better things to do with their time.

That angle took it above the usual Funny Looking Kid level of behavior that Genesee County is rather known for (some suspected O.J. Simpson was looking for a house out there because everybody's DNA is the same), enough to get the attention of even London's Daily Mail online edition.

Today, though, the local radio in Rochester was all abuzz because of comments made by the woman and her cuckolded husband, who came-with to her arraignment, all supportive and kissyface with her. Some of the reports had the wife quoted as revealing that she'd reached out to this 29 year old stud muffin for extra companionship because her husband is a tranny. (Unstated in these reports was whether s/he was coming or going, although it was pretty clear that s/he isn't just a cross-dresser but is truly doing the transgender thing here.)

Which is JUST the kind of publicity the supporters of GENDA need right about now, since the radical fundies have already convinced a large number of voters in New York that ending gender-identity discrimination is weird and kinky and will lead to all kinds of sodomy in bathrooms.

Now they can add picnic tables to their reading from the Book of Threats.

Comments

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Jezus effing Christmas, how in hell is being transgender or having an affair any of the public's business except if you choose to boink on a picnic table and, in doing so, scare horses or children? Sheeeeesh. I hope that poor couple is at least trying to talk openly with each other about their situation and her other relationship, because that's where the hurt is centered, if she didn't get her spouse's agreement beforehand, or even if they were still talking it out. But it's really nobody's business except theirs and that of their therapists.

Wow, I sound like one of those nutty open relationship hippies. (I am, but I'm polite about it and don't push my structures on anyone _else_!) It's still a load of bullshit, this case.

How many other states still have an adultery charge?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that Massachusetts has decriminalized it, although they are still allowed to award letter grades. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter)

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Oh, well then, an A's an A, I always say. How ironic that the city of The Scarlet Letter has become home to a huge poly community. Makes for great social drama, as long as you can stay out of the blast radius and have popcorn on hand to munch as you watch, or read about it on dot_poly_snark, or whatever.