North Carolina has a 200 year old law banning unmarried couples from living together. That's not North Carolina, Afghanistan but North Carolina, United States.
A female sheriff's department dispatcher claims her boss ordered her to get married, move out or find another job after he [the sheriff] found out she and her boyfriend had been living together for three years. The couple did not want to get married, so the dispatcher quit.
Then again, this is the state that kept re-electing Jesse Helms so obviously they have some 'interesting' standards down there.
NC is hardly the only state where such activity is illegal. The others are Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, Michigan, Mississippi and North Dakota. North Carolina appears to be the only state where the law is being challenged.
There are lots of old laws on the books that no one has bothered to revisit so you might be forgiven for thinking that the continued existence of such archaic prohibitions is merely a legislative oversight. Amazingly, earlier this very year, the North Dakota House defeated a challenge to its cohabitation law on a 52 to 37 vote.
In its infinite evilness, the dastardly, much-maligned ACLU is challenging in court this wonderful (and surely constitutional) piece of North Carolina legislation.
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