Like some filthy skank exposing herself to children.
From the police report:
I explained to her that the police department had received multiple complaints from citizens about her attire, or lack thereof. I asked her if she would be willing to put on a shirt. She answered, "absolutely not." I asked her why she was refusing. She explained that she felt the law was discriminating against her. She stated that men are allowed to walk downthe street without a shirt on. She felt that she should be allowed to do the same.A person who is simply not wearing a shirt does not rise to the level of "gross lewdness," the courts have determined.I asked her if she felt she had any responsibility for the multiple children she had exposed herself to during her walk down Main St. She told me it wasn't her responsibility to educate or to change their social inabilities.
No cite, naturally. I call your bluff.
It's illegal to do it because it demonstrates contempt for one's neighbors
Strawman. It's illegal because a law has been enacted against it, for whatever reasons drove its passage.
"The voluntary support of laws, formed by persons of their own choice, distinguishes peculiarly the minds capable of self-government. The contrary spirit is anarchy, which of necessity produces despotism." --Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson had that ilk pegged long ago.
Did you notice she's carrying a pistol, too?
You quote Jefferson, and I like that. If you don't have a copy of "Light and Liberty," I highly recommend it. On the topic at hand, here's another Thomas Jefferson quote for you:
"Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the rightful limits of their powers; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Francis Walker Gilmer, June 7, 1816