Talk:Moral turpitude

message: The term "moral turpitude" is use in the voter registration laws of Georgia and Alabama (and perhaps other states?). There is scant definition of what falls into this category, so both states have been denying voter registration to all felons.
*Georgia apparently still denies all felons: http://www.acluga.org/voting.rights.html 
*Alabama received a court order to change its practices: http://www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=975
Samatva 13:55, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a section discussing the Georgia and Alabama laws to the article. Dash77 (talk) 01:57, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

text: His estranged wife's lawyer tried to ascribe her statements as being those of an "ignorant hillbilly", so something like that, but the judge did not swallow this argument. 98.67.165.215 (talk) 17:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Voter Registration Laws

message: The Controversy section mentions Sebastian Horsley's refused entry to the USA and implies that the moral turpitude justification rested on his "controled-substance violations", yet such violations do not appear in the table of definitions of moral turpitude. Is the table lacking, or are the reasons for Mr. Horsley being refused entry nothing to do with his drug use? Astronaut (talk) 12:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked at the INS statute governing this, and I believe that the spokesperson mispoke. He may have committed a crime of moral turpitude and a seperate crime ivolving controled substance violations. These are seperate issues that allow for expedited removal from the U.S. I suggest the section on Horsley be eliminated because it is misleading. Jumpinbean (talk) 20:29, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sebastian Horsley 

message: This article focuses entirely on the issue as it is applied in immigration cases, but says nothing about its application with regard to teachers. I know that in many, if not all, states of the United States, teachers can be dismissed on the grounds of "moral turpitude". I was hoping to find some serious discussion of that in the article, but alas, there is nothing. Cgingold (talk) 14:39, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teachers 

message: As pointed out on this talk page, in the Sebastian Horsley section, the second paragraph of the U.S. Immigration Law section claims "A controled substance violation is a CIMT", while the table below shows no such guidance. I don't know enough about this subject to make the edit presumptively, but I'm inclined to remove the quoted sentence unless anyone has information confirming such violations are a CIMT (in terms of US Immigration Law, or otherwise).
Grothmag (talk) 17:50, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controled substances 

message: says crimes involving moral turpitude can lead to deportation, and that section also has other crimes separately set out as those that can lead to deportation. If a crime is separately set out (e.g. threatening the President, ), does that mean it's not a crime involving moral turpitude? Aimbply (talk) 07:42, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Immigration 

message: The remark that moral turpitude is important in Canadian immigration law is, I believe, incorrect (and the citation at the end of the sentence does not refer to Canadian law). The term was removed in the 1976 Immigration Act (which itself was superseded by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of 2002). I would recommend reading the current act, in which the term moral turpitude is not used http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-2.5/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.101.13.22 (talk) 03:50, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian Immigration Law 

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message: "Publishers Weekly commented:
Until recently, the term ‘moral turpitude’ is not one that crossed the lips of too many people in book publishing. But Bill O’Reilly, Milo Yiannopoulos, Sherman Alexie, Jay Asher, and James Dashner changed all that…. A legal term that refers to behavior generally considered unacceptable in a given community, moral turpitude is something publishers rarely worried themselves about. No longer.
Here is an excerpt of a morality clause:
In the event that Author is publicly accused …"
https://areomagazine.com/2020/07/18/are-calls-for-open-debate-too-little-too-late/
Let us add it as a claim. Zezen (talk) 09:21, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 use as claims of use for censorship 

message: The ESTA form actually asks about "serious damage" and "serious harm".
This is actually quite orthogonal to "moral turpitude". Stealing a newspaper is a crime of moral turpitude but clearly is not "serious harm". Involuntary manslaughter is "serious harm" but not "moral turpitude".
Should this be mentioned? I don't think I'm in a position to develop this.
Uncriticalsimon (talk) 01:28, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  ESTA form