{"id":27994,"date":"2017-05-12T05:30:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=27994"},"modified":"2017-05-11T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T23:24:17","slug":"repealing-protection-of-women-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2017\/05\/repealing-protection-of-women-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Repealing chivalrous laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"318px-John_Everett_Millais_The_Black_Brunswicker\"<\/a>The Oklahoma state legislature, supposedly a conservative lot, has repealed the criminal seduction law, which forbade seducing a virgin by promising to marry her. \u00a0Also repealed was a law \u00a0forbidding slandering a woman\u2019s virtue.<\/p>\n

The state senator who pushed these repeals, a woman, thought the laws were funny. \u00a0She also said they\u00a0were \u201cobsolete, antiquated, inappropriate for our modern society.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Daily Oklahoman, <\/em>supposedly a conservative newspaper, also thought these laws, designed to protect women, were funny. \u00a0But when the reporter, in the spirit of fun,\u00a0quoted advocates of the law from 100 years ago, those gentlemen came across as noble and chivalrous in their zealous concern for wronged women.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not saying we should or should not have such laws. \u00a0But the notion that chronology determines whether or not an idea is right or wrong or a law is appropriate or not is surely fallacious. \u00a0Yes, women now must be treated just like men, and the Victorian exaltation of womanhood is now considered sexist. \u00a0But\u00a0women are still exploited sexually, and the problem of slandering a woman\u2019s reputation has become even worse in the age of social media. \u00a0At any rate, mocking\u00a0those\u00a0chivalrous laws designed to protect women just shows the coarsening of our age.<\/p>\n

Painting: \u00a0\u201cThe Black Brunswicker,\u201d by John Everett Millais (1860), Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=564102<\/em><\/p>\n

From Nolan Clay,\u00a0Oklahoma repeals antiquated seduction, slander laws | News OK<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

For more than a century, seducing a virgin by promising to marry her has been illegal in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

So has been slandering a woman\u2019s virtue.<\/p>\n

Those old laws will be coming off the books this fall.<\/p>\n

Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday signed Senate Bill 286 repealing laws against seducing an unmarried female and imputing unchastity to females. The changes go into effect Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

Sen. AJ Griffin, R-Guthrie, was the author of the legislation, getting it passed after three years of trying.<\/p>\n

Griffin said she came across the seduction and slander crimes while trying to educate herself on the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cI peruse the criminal code quite a bit, just trying to learn primarily, and then ran across those \u2026 and, of course, initially laughed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She described the seduction and slander crimes as \u201cobsolete, antiquated, inappropriate for our modern society.\u201d. . .<\/p>\n

The main seduction law being repealed makes it a felony for any person to seduce and have \u201cillicit connection with an unmarried female of previous chaste character\u201d under promise of marriage. That law first went on the books in 1910.<\/p>\n

The maximum punishment is five years in prison and a $1,000 fine.<\/p>\n

No one has gone to prison for a seduction offense in decades, Cleveland said. Early in statehood, though, seducers did go to prison, records show. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals condemned the crime as a black and deadly treachery similar to Judas\u2019 betrayal of Jesus.<\/p>\n

In language used in more than one opinion, the Court of Criminal Appeals wrote: \u201cUnder the Mosaic law, the penalty of death was inflicted for this offense. The seducer was taken beyond the gates of the city and stoned to death. If this was the law now, there would not be so much impurity in our country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe courts and juries of this state cannot be too vigilant in protecting the innocent girls of our country against the wiles and machinations of such incarnate fiends in human form.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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