Religious group sues San Francisco over open-air urinal
Source: Associated Press
Religious group sues San Francisco over open-air urinal
Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated Press
Updated 7:18 pm, Tuesday, April 19, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A religious organization sued the city of San Francisco to remove an open-air urinal from a popular park that it calls unsanitary and indecent.
The Chinese Christian Union of San Francisco filed a civil complaint last week demanding the city remove the concrete circular urinal from iconic Dolores Park.
The group says the urinal, which is out in the open and screened only with plants for privacy, "emanates offensive odors," ''has no hand-washing facilities" and "it's offensive to manners and morals."
The lawsuit alleges that the item installed in February discriminates against women and the disabled and exposes those who use it to "shame and embarrassment."
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Religious-group-sues-San-Francisco-over-open-air-7256542.php
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)That being said they need to make more bathrooms for everyone and I suppose this won't be an issue.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)The homeless and misc. intoxicated assholes don't avail themselves of them.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)It would be nice if they accommodated women, but we gentle flowers of sweet womanhood know men don't think we have to pee.
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)... but urination, defecation, and death are certainly three.
I was made aware of this fact at about the age of 14, when I was working (@75 cents/hour) as a Page at the Idaho Falls, Idaho, public library...(yeah, yeah the old joke is: If you work real hard as a Page, you could eventually be promoted to a Chapter). Pages did things like fetch books that patrons requested and reshelve returned books.
It's almost fifty years gone now, but I still remember reshelving a copy of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover in the ...uh, special collection...in the basement of the library. I don't recall how, but I did chance upon this passage:
All the while he spoke he exquisitely stroked the roundedtail, till it seemed as if a slippery sort of fire came from it into his hands. And his finger-tips touched the two secret openings to her body, time after time, with a soft little
brush of fire. An if tha shits an if tha pisses, Im glad. I dont want a woman as couldna shit nor piss.
Connie could not help a sudden snort of astonished laughter, but he went on unmoved. Here tha shits an here tha pisses: an I lay my hand on em both an I like thee for it. I like thee for it. Thas got a proper, womans arse, proud of itself. Its none ashamed of itself this isna. He laid his hand close and firm over her secret places, in a kind of close greeting.
I like it, he said. I like it! An if I only lived ten minutes, an stroked thy arse an got to know it, I should reckon Id lived ONEl ife, see ter! Industrial system or not! Heres one o my lifetimes. She turned round and climbed into his lap, clinging to him. Kiss me! she whispered. And she knew the thought of their separation was latent in both their minds, and at last she was sad.
She sat on his thighs, her head against his breast, and her ivory-gleaming legs loosely apart, the fire glowing unequally upon them. Sitting with his head dropped, he looked at the folds of her body in the fire-glow, and at the fleece of soft brown hair that hung down to a point between her open thighs. He reached to the table behind, and took up
her bunch of flowers, still so wet that drops of rain fell on to her.
Flowers stops out of doors all weathers, he said. They have no houses.
Not even a hut! she murmured.
With quiet fingers he threaded a few forget-me-not flowers in the fine brown fleece of the mound of Venus.
There! he said. Theres forget-me-nots in the right place!
She looked down at the milky odd little flowers among the brown maiden-hair at the lower tip of her body.
So, to those who claim that:
I say, wake up and touch the roses.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)but I'd already discovered "the stacks" a couple of years earlier. It's where I discovered Twain's "1601" and "The Unexpurgated Dictionary of American Slang," a book that kept me out of more trouble than any high minded book pushed at little girls ever did.
I'd forgotten that passage in "Lady Chatterly." I do know it's the one book that salvaged Lawrence for me.
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)My sister and brother both worked at the library before me...so I was definitely odd!
Warpy
(111,277 posts)Never could figure the damned things out.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)"has no hand-washing facilities" - then petition the city to put in a water fountain to do the job.
"it's offensive to manners and morals." - Oh, for the love of the invisible Sky Daddy. . .just stop right there. Don't impose your morals and manners on me. And if manners is grounds for a lawsuit, I can sue anyone who never said please, thank you or you're welcome to me.
What is this bullshit?
olddad56
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B2G
(9,766 posts)And I don't see any plants.
ripcord
(5,409 posts)What I want to know is how you are supposed to tell the urinal from the rest of the urine soaked city?