Beck Bill Addressing Antiquated, Demeaning Language Towards Women Clears Committee
Trenton—Legislation sponsored by Senators Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth/Mercer) and Loretta Weinberg (D- Bergen) that would repeal certain obsolete, antiquated statutes containing demeaning language to women was passed by the Assembly Judiciary Committee today. The bill, S-2665/A-3841, would repeal a number of statues on the books which either do not accurately reflect the status of women in the 21st Century, or contain language which would be considered sexist or demeaning under today’s standards.
“It is bad enough these laws existed at all, much less remain on the books,” Beck said. “Our society has moved on from an era where the rights of women were deliberately limited by the Government, and it is time the law books do the same”
The laws which would be repealed are:
The “Married Woman’s Property Acts,” a law first enacted in the 1800s to codify married women’s right to own, control, and dispose of property. At the time of enactment, the law was considered an advance for women over the common law which imposed restrictions on a women’s legal and property rights. However, the law was made obsolete with the passage of the New Jersey Constitution and the Law Against Discrimination, along with any number of federal laws outlining a woman’s rights as being equal to men’s rights;
The “Bar by consent to ravisher law,” which provides that, “if a wife after being ravished, consent to the ravisher, she shall be disabled and forever barred from having her jointure or dower, unless her husband is voluntarily reconciled to her and permits her to dwell with him, in which case she shall be restored to her jointure or dower;”
The “Immediate marriage if arrested upon criminal charge law,” which states, “if a person is arrested upon a criminal charge, involving an accusation of bastardy, rape, fornication or of having had carnal knowledge of an unmarried female, and the accused person consents to marry such female, any licensing officer is authorized to immediately issue a marriage license irrespective of the provisions of [marriage requirements].”
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While we’re cleaning up antiquated language, we really should outlaw the name Weiner
So, Art; is the Weiner out as they would say? 🙂
“Oh, if I were a U.S. Congress Weiner,
yes, that is what I’d truly like to be,
’cause if I were a U.S. Congress Weiner,
everyone would be in love with me!”
With apologies to Oscar Mayer.
….I’m just saying.
As if this stuff was actually having any impact in the real world.
Come on girls don’t we have more important things to worry about in Trenton.
OOPs did I just say something sexist.
My bad.
TR, I think the concept is a good one, that is taking a look at any old, old, old laws that are indeed that law, and could be enforced, get rid of the items that just don’t apply or make sense in 2011 and try to reduce the number of laws and simplify the remaining laws while bringing them to current socially accepted norms.
But I do agree, if what I said was supposed to be the point or what they claim to be doing, I have to think there are other old laws on the books more important than this one.
With car sales slumping and the economy doing poor, maybe allowing car sales on Sunday would help? I don’t know the details/history/why the law, but I’m told it’s the law. Others might point to the “no pumping your own gas” law, I personally am ok with my mom sitting in her car in the winter and letting someone else pump gas for her, and plus I have no reason to think that a self-service option in NJ would equate to cheaper gasoline in NJ, but the law is an old one, I’m sure there are varying opinions, might be worth a serious discussion.
Ohh, and there is this other really old law, “One Gun A Month”, that is based on the old, flawed logic that if you limit legal, licensed Firearms ID holders to purchasing one gun in any given month, there will be less gun crime. The statistics seem to indicate that this old logic isn’t true, never was, and maybe Beck and Weinberg want to have a look at getting rid that old law?
And we worry about Sharia law with this stuff still on the books?
James Hogan, don’t hold your breath waiting for Senator Jennifer Beck to respect your rights. While in the Assembly, she voted in favor of that one-gun-a-month bill that you mentioned above. She also voted in favor a bill that would force pharmacists to fill prescriptions for drugs that induce abortions, the moral & religious convictions of those pharmacist notwithstanding.
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