Sex laws

Sex Laws
My opinion on sex and marital laws.
I feel for a large part that Sex laws and marital laws for the most part are an example of how the government oversteps its authority. Who and how people are married and divorced should be left to the religious leaders. The only need for court intervention should be for property and paternity disputes, other laws that are included but in no way exclusive are the monogamy law, the ban on homosexual marriages and the dictation of who cannot marry. These are for the most part religious issues not issues of governing. The government should outlaw any laws that govern morality as this is not it place. Laws for coexistence safety and government support are the limits the government should impose on itself. Frankly along with this the government should also clean up its law books. Laws that are no longer imposed should be removed for practicality. For example in 2006 a man shot and killed 6 American Natives in South Dakota and got off free because the government never bother to remove a law that stated that anytime more than 4 Native Americans were seen together that they could be shot, because this constituted a war party. Needless to say that law outlived its necessity by over a century. Needless to say the law has been removed and the person in question did get 20 years for his breaking several other laws in the process of the murders.
There are many states that have old laws on the book that are often overlooked because the outlived their purpose, most marital and sex laws are just as pointless. Who cares how Mrs. Brown does it with her husband, although there are still states and towns that dictate the proper way to have sex. Some places enforce them other places just ignore them but they are still there and can be invoked at the whim of an idiot.
The only sex and marital laws that should exist are those that protect children, one to prescribe the age of consent and those that describe what constitutes the various types of rape and the punishment of the conviction for such an offense. As for marital laws the requirement of registration of a marriage/ divorce and the process of settling disputes of property and paternity.
Even child support should be dropped for a more direct version. A parent that doesn’t have custody of the children has a choice, be part of the child’s/children’s life and pay support or walk away to never have anything to do with them. Motherhood is a choice as is father hood, if a child makes its way into the world the woman chose to be a mother, only by commitment a providing support of a child makes a man a father. When a woman chooses to have the child she made her commitment a man should not be forced to give the same commitment because of what the woman chose, however this also leaves the choice of whether or not to have the child completely up to the woman.