Nudists Fight SF City Hall for the Right to Bare All
By WILLIAM DOTINGA
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Nudists have taken pre-emptive action against San Francisco's proposed ban on public nudity, filing a federal class action claiming the city-county's move would violate their constitutional rights.
Lead plaintiffs Mitch Hightower, Oxane "Gypsy" Taub, George Davis and Russell Mills sued the City and County of San Francisco and three of its supervisors - David Chiu, Scott Weiner and Angela Calvillo. They seek declaratory judgment and injunctive relief.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors plan to vote on Weiner's proposed ordinance at its Nov. 20 meeting. Weiner represents the Castro District - notorious for nudity - and told NBC News that a neighborhood square in his district is becoming "an ad-hoc nudist colony."
... Weiner successfully encouraged a law requiring nudists to place a cloth buffer between their "genitals, buttocks or anal region and the public seating" in 2011 ...
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/11/15/52286.htm
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| Wearing stuff is totally against my religion! | |
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| I can't fully express myself unless I'm naked | |
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| How can my government redress my grievance if I don't take my clothes off first? | |
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| My right to bare my butt is implied by my right to bare arms | |
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| I didn't want the police to search my pockets, so I just left my pants at home | |
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| That the Constitution does not enumerate my right to be nekkid of certain rights, cannot be construed as denying or disparaging this right | |
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| Since the Constitution does not delegate to the United States my power to take off my clothing, this power is reserved to me by the tenth amendment | |
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| Um, excuse me! I'm protesting the Eighteenth Amendment! | |
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| Grandpa used to do this for his constitution, and he lived to be a hundred ten | |
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In Florida, it would just be another day.
In Michigan, it would freeze and break off, so don't try it.
