Adultery
Adultery is sexual infidelity to one's spouse.
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- Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.
- Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (1956).
- Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
- H. L. Mencken in A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)[specific citation needed]
- The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.
- R. J. Rushdoony, to Bill Moyers, on PBS Home Video:God and Politics: On Earth as it is in Heaven, 1988.