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>KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda scrapped an adultery law
>Thursday that campaigners said discriminated against
>women.
>
>Uganda's Constitutional Court ordered the changes to
>the Penal Code, under which it was legal for a married
>man to have an affair with an unmarried woman but
>against the law for a married woman to have an affair
>with an unmarried man.
>
>"Section 154 of the Penal Code Act which penalizes
>married women on the offence of adultery is
>discriminatory," the Constitutional Court said in its
>ruling.
>
>Women found guilty of the offence had previously faced
>a fine or up to a year in jail.
>
>The ruling came after a legal challenge filed against
>the east African country's attorney general by a group
>of female lawyers.
>
>Their lawyer, Ladislaus Rwakafuzi, said the old rules
>had given cheating husbands a green light to pursue
>single women.
>
>"Discrimination concerning sexual relations amounts to
>cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment contrary to the
>law," he told Reuters after the verdict. "Our success
>today is historic."
>
>The court also scrapped parts of a law that gave men
>more rights than women if their partner died.

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Put me on wheels and I'll turn tricks.

Clever? Nah, I ran out of that years ago. But if you find this, let me know, k?
"The road goes ever on..." ~ Tolkien

In memory of my friend skip...
Go then, there are other worlds than these

If they really cared about equality...
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they would've made it Section 1 of the Vaginal Code.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.