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A regular reader e-mailed this story from The Champlain Channel

If a married woman has sex with another woman, is that adultery? The New Hampshire Supreme Court says no.

The court was asked to review a divorce case in which a husband accused his wife of adultery after she had a sexual relationship with another woman. Any finding that one spouse is at fault in the break-up of a marriage can change how the court divides the couple’s property.

Robin Mayer, of Brownsville, Vt., was named in the divorce proceedings of a Hanover couple. She appealed the case to the Supreme Court, arguing that gay sex doesn’t qualify as adultery under the state’s divorce law.

In a 3-2 ruling Friday, the court agreed.

The majority determined that the definition of adultery requires sexual intercourse. The judges who disagreed said adultery should be defined more broadly to include other extramarital sexual activity.

I’ve exhausted my quote of Bill Clinton quips for the week, so I’ll merely note my surprise that, while there is no sex in the Champaign Room, there apparently is on the Champlain Channel.

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James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.

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This WaPo piece on the crowds going ga-ga over Bill Clinton at a campaign 2004 steak fry in Iowa brings two reactions:

1. I still don’t get the attraction to Clinton.

2. Why on Earth would anyone fry a steak?

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James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.

Comments

  1. Steven says:

    And it ain’t even the in South, where we will fry anything.

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  2. jen says:

    I’m a woman who never understood the appeal of Clinton either. He’s not that good looking. Add his character flaws and there is no attraction, at least not for me. Really, he gives me the shivers. (I was going to say “willies,” but … heh.)

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