More forward advancement by our brothers and sisters south of the Mason Dixon line. And it totally supports my emerging theory of the essential hypocrisy of the Southern soul. Why did Georgia have a law on the books for 170 years that prohibited sex between unmarried people? Because they didn't want unmarried people to have sex? Nah. It was because it would 'look better' if they had a ludicrous law, just to let folks know who they were dealing with and what their values were. But I seriously doubt that not only has there never been any diminution in extra-marrital sex in Georgia overall because of this law, but I bet there was never any diminution of extra-marrital sex among the people who dreamed up this law, the legislators who voted on it, the Governor who signed it, or the law officers charged with enforcing it. But it's not about what you think or do, it's about how it looks. It's all about the enormous goddamn columns stuck on the front of your Decatur mansion, it doesn 't matter if they're made of plastic.

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