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Offline Flavius Petrus Sabbatius

Penalty for Adultery
« on: November 01, 2019, 07:01:02 PM »
What is the opinion among those here on the just penalty for adultery? Do you believe that capital punishment should be given to those who have committed this crime?

I personally believe that death can serve to manifest the justice of the Lord and to act as a deterrent for this horrible act. Even before the Mosaic covenant, the holy patriarch Joseph described adultery as a "wicked thing" and a "sin against my God" (Genesis XXXIX, 9). He knew the evil of adultery. I believe that God expressed His disgust for adultery by demanding a penalty which is placed on blasphemy, sodomy, incest, and bestiality (Leviticus XX, 10). 

Pope Sixtus V seemed to highly favour the death penalty for adultery. He forbade judges to give them any quarter and promised rewards for bringing action against them.
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Offline Maria Regina

Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2019, 09:49:00 PM »
Quote from: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius on November 01, 2019, 07:01:02 PM
What is the opinion among those here on the just penalty for adultery? Do you believe that capital punishment should be given to those who have committed this crime?

I personally believe that death can serve to manifest the justice of the Lord and to act as a deterrent for this horrible act. Even before the Mosaic covenant, the holy patriarch Joseph described adultery as a "wicked thing" and a "sin against my God" (Genesis XXXIX, 9). He knew the evil of adultery. I believe that God expressed His disgust for adultery by demanding a penalty which is placed on blasphemy, sodomy, incest, and bestiality (Leviticus XX, 10).

Pope Sixtus V seemed to highly favour the death penalty for adultery. He forbade judges to give them any quarter and promised rewards for bringing action against them.


In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

Is this why many or most criminals are executed around 1 or 2 AM?

Adultery is almost considered "normal" behavior today. In the USA, many of our congressmen, congresswomen and Senators have admitted to committing acts of adultery or fornication. Yet even worse, some Republicans say that we should not be concerned with what goes on in the bedroom or hotel rooms as long as it is with full consent. Many of these politicians resign, but some still stay in office and continue to be reelected by a wicked populace that has been brainwashed by the media.
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Offline ByzCat3000

Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2019, 04:51:40 PM »
I think theoretically maximum of death, but that the victimized spouse should get a say in it.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2019, 05:42:18 PM »
If the husband/father commits adultery, what would you do, have him killed or jailed ... and thereby leave the family without financial support?  So the wife and children effectively get punished twice, once by the adultery and a second time by the elimination of the husband/father.

If the wife/mother commits adultery, then the husband and children are punished because now the father becomes a single father and the children have no mother.

So, no, I don't think it's appropriate at all.

Some other penalty could surely be conceived that would punish the perpetrator without re-punishing the victims.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2019, 05:44:04 PM »
Look at St. Joseph's attitude toward Our Lady when it appeared to him as if she had been unfaithful.
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