Morality

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't think that's true at all. From what I can gather, USians are pretty fond of putting European qualifiers to their names - Irish-American, German-American, Italian-American, and so on.  And, based on news reports, quite a lot of USians seem to have what amounts to a pretty unhealthy obsession with the British royal family, Swiss chocolate, French poodles, and pizza.

Boru

edit:  Why should adultery carry a legal penalty?

America has been in love with France forever 


And if adultery should carry a penalty because it hurts children should poor parenting carry one too ?

Well, poor parenting does carry legal penalties, if it rises to the level of abuse or neglect, but abuse and neglect (other than physical) are pretty hard to quantify.

But what I'm trying to pin Agnostico down on is why the act of adultery should be penalized by law. Again, I don't hold out much hope. 

Boru