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Adultery has always been illegal, in Pakistan

The national assembly voted that rape should no longer fall under Sharia law. Until now, rape cases were dealt with in Sharia courts. Victims had to have four male witnesses to the crime - if not, they faced prosecution for adultery.
Religious parties called the new legislation "a harbinger of lewdness and indecency in the country", and against the strictures of the Koran and Sharia law.
(Religion is morally neutral. So says Tutu. I suppose that if women are non human then the religious “strictures” of the Koran and Sharia law are right, it would be a neutral law to say that there must be four male witnesses - but then why do they say “crime”?? Ah, it could become a crime if one group of men were trying to implicate another in some crime in order to put them in their place. Yes Political. No crime to get someone to rape your wife with no witnesses or at least less than four in order to be able to get rid of her. Hummm)

Isn’t it funny, science has to have a ‘scientific’ explanation for everything. People don’t like art just for the sake of art but rather because it follows some scientific formula that creates some chemical balance within our hormonal out put or input that makes us feel pleasure. – never mind if the art is not art and the idea of pleasure is totally screwed up. So Now since we have been arguing that homo ‘lifestyle’ in humans is chemical and in the genes and Not the person’s Fault morally we seem to have to change our tune to try another line of defense; we do have to defend it, somehow some nasty gene got into us that says we should condemn the practice. Animals practice Homo. Not just that, “said Linda Wolfe, You can make up all kinds of stories: Oh it's for dominance, it's for this, it's for that, but when it comes down to the bottom I think it's just for sexual pleasure," Wow, there doesn’t need to be any science behind it ! It is just for pleasure ! What can possibly be wrong with pleasure ? To bad the world was not all Parthenogenetic animals, which create exact copies of themselves, are all females: mothers cloning daughters. The world would be ever so much better of a place.

Wow!
“Scientists have reconstructed a chunk of DNA from the genome of a Neanderthal man who lived 38,000 years ago.” You mean that you believe that a chunk of DNA could survive for 38,000 years ? ?

WOW again ! ! Are we ever intelligent and getting more and more and more so all the time !! !!
“A doctor who carried out a failed contraceptive operation has been ordered by a German court to pay financial support for the child. The gynaecologist had inserted a patch into the patient's arm, but it failed to prevent pregnancy six months later. The woman, who had recently qualified as a teacher, had to give up her new job to care for her child. The highest judicial court has ruled the doctor must pay 600 euros (£400) a month until the child reaches 18.
The parents, who had known each other six months at the time of the conception, were no longer together, the court said. The father will also be compensated for the maintenance he is paying for the child.”
There is something to be said for Judges being elected and thus responsible directly to the people. Here we have this “rule of the people, by the people, for the people” thing and then we have courts that can overrule laws that our elected representatives have made And come up with decisions quite apart from any guiding norms at all. I always said that the hardest part of making up a system of ethics is deciding who has the authority to make it in the first place. Who rules? The person with the biggest guns? The biggest brains? The biggest bank account? The biggest something else? Or just the most gall?
Why ever should the doc have to pay child support for something like that? Hey if the doc fertilized some woman – not personaly, maybe; but this? ?