Posted on 03/21/2006 1:53:02 PM PST by MRMEAN
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week, another court refused to recognize Mississippians' right to find companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will stand.
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHHAHAHA....WTF?
The Far Right on a rampage.
In this day and age they don't have something more important to worry about than if someone buys a dildo?
They were taking all the cucumbers off the shelves at Food Lion.
Looks like we need a modern-day Rosa Parks!
If you outlaw the sex toy, Mississippians will just turn to dangerous back alley sex toys.
Ping!
Is this another one of those red state vs. blue state issues?
Government is again putting its nose into peoples' private business.
I live in MS and this is the first I've heard of this. Incidentally, there has been a sex-toy shop downtown as long as I've lived here.
Sex toys are illegal in Alabama as well.
Looks like vegtable prices will be going up.
Like a banana?
Just a darn good thing I don't live in MS. You'd think they'd have more, er, pressing things to worry about.
Yeah and those wand-like "back massagers" at department stores aren't fooling anyone either - better round them up too.
Don't wanna know where/on what she'll sit to make her point.
That is not a preety picture, yuck!
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