Do we need refuge from drag shows and naked statues?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Last edited Wed Jun 7, 2023, 01:16 PM - Edit history (1)

By Froma Harrop / Creators.com

Tennessee passed a law that bans drag performances anywhere minors might attend. Happily, a federal judge stopped it. Very happily, the judge is a conservative, reminding all that some conservatives value principle over politics.

The assumption underlying the law is that a performance in which a man wears a dress — or a woman pastes on a mustache — is by definition obscene. Therefore, it must be outlawed.

In his 70-page ruling, Judge Thomas Parker called the law “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad.” He writes, “If Tennessee wishes to exercise its police power in restricting speech it considers obscene, it must do so within the constraints and framework of the United States Constitution.”

Not an original thought but one that needs repeating these days.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-do-we-need-refuge-from-drag-shows-and-naked-staues/

[FalloutShelter]

1. Where's the outrage over Melissa McCarthy in

Full lumberjack drag in the commercial they run every ten minutes?

[scarletlib]

2. Good point.

They are all nothing but hypocrites and political opportunists. That’s the best I can say about them.

Hopefully they are not all ignorant of art, history, literature etc.

[Judi Lynn]

3. What about Melissa Spicer? That was offensive, too!

[FalloutShelter]

4. You're right.

I had forgotten about this. PERFECT.

[murielm99]

5. I LOL every time I see that lumberjack commercial.

[Beartracks]

6. "within the constraints and framework of the U.S. Constitution"

Republicans have no real use for democracy, so they certainly have no use, really, for the Constitution -- although they will happily, patriotically claim to be saving both as they push their radical, fascist agendas.

Well, to that end, they do have one use for democracy: they use the mechanisms of democracy to try to dismantle democracy.

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[Skittles]

7. kudos to that judge

he sees the creeping fascism