Arguments over Georgia fornication law
The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday over whether to overturn the state's 1833 law banning sex outside marriage. An ACLU lawyer urged the justices to overturn the law: "Hundreds of thousands of Georgians, even those in long-term relationships, are criminals, criminals under this law, even if they engage in these private acts in their own house." The court overturned Georgia's sodomy law in 1998 on privacy grounds.
