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Kicking the Cohabiters

Kerry Howley | 3.31.2005 10:48 AM

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Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, West Virginia, North Dakota, Virginia, and North Carolina still have laws punishing the unmarried for shacking up, which is kind of cute until someone tries to enforce one. A North Carolina 9-1-1 dispatcher, fired for living in sin, is suing the state with a little help from the ACLU.

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Kerry Howley is author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State.

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