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NATION, Page 33American NotesCONNECTICUTNo Crime For Love
Adultery may still be a sin in Connecticut, but it's no longer
a crime. Last week Governor Lowell Weicker signed legislation
repealing the state's 18th century law that made it a crime for
a married man or woman to have sexual intercourse outside of
marriage.
Like the antiadultery laws still on the books in about
half the states, Connecticut's statute was rarely enforced. But
last summer four people were arrested in separate incidents on
the basis of complaints by their angry spouses. Though none of
them were prosecuted, lawmakers feared that the legal ban might
be invoked more often as a weapon in divorce cases. Under the
new measure, adultery can still be used as grounds for divorce
but will no longer be subject to penalties of state law. The
higher law, presumably, still applies.