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| South Korea Decriminalizes Adultery |
| 2015-02-26 |
| [NYTIMES] South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a 62-year-old law that made adultery an offense punishable by up to two years in prison, citing the country's changing sexual mores and a growing emphasis on individual rights. "It has become difficult to say that there is a consensus on whether adultery should be punished as a criminal offense," five of the court's nine justices said in a joint opinion. "It should be left to the free will and love of people to decide whether to maintain marriage, and the matter should not be externally forced through a criminal code." Two other justices voted to declare the law unconstitutional for other reasons. A two-thirds majority was required to strike down the law. |
| Posted by:Fred |