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San Francisco nudists rally for right to bare it all
Reuters ^ | Nov 14 | Ronnie Cohen

Posted on 11/15/2012 6:02:43 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two dozen pro-nudity activists wearing little but their righteous indignation assembled on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday to protest a proposed municipal ban on public nakedness.

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"Nudophobic bigotry has now taken root here in San Francisco," Rusty Mills, 69, stripped down to his tanned birthday suit, told his fellow demonstrators as they stood in the sunshine of an unseasonably warm, 70-degree Fahrenheit (21-degree Celsius) fall day.

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On the way back to City Hall, elementary school children playing on a schoolyard gawked and pointed at the naked demonstrators.

Supervisor Scott Wiener introduced the proposal to curb undressing after residents complained about a daily gathering of naked men in Jane Warner Plaza, a square in the Castro District. He called the lawsuit a baseless "publicity stunt."

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"A lot of people who live in the neighborhood are just sick of the fact that seven days a week there are men taking their pants off and displaying their genitals on our sidewalks and plaza," he added.

Under the proposed law, which critics dubbed the "Wiener bill," nudity would still be allowed at permitted parades, fairs and festivals, as well as on designated nude beaches.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.reuters.com ...


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1 posted on 11/15/2012 6:02:49 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Rusty Mills, 69, stripped down ...

That’s when I stopped reading.


2 posted on 11/15/2012 6:04:16 AM PST by ILS21R
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TTIJFWOP

This Thread is Just Fine Without Pictures...

3 posted on 11/15/2012 6:06:24 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
Supervisor Scott Wiener...

Okay....this HAS TO BE satire.........

4 posted on 11/15/2012 6:07:48 AM PST by massmike (At least no one is wearing a "Ron Paul - 2016" tee shirt........yet!)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

“But the thing you don’t realize is that there’s good naked and bad naked”


5 posted on 11/15/2012 6:07:48 AM PST by ari-freedom (It's the bennies, stupid.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

No one wants to see your naked body and laugh.
By the way... the left one is cancerous.


6 posted on 11/15/2012 6:07:57 AM PST by Suz in AZ
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Where’s the normal people’s right of not having to endure the unnecessary suffering of seeing old hippies walking around naked?


7 posted on 11/15/2012 6:09:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We need Comprehensive Election Reform, NOW!)
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To: pgyanke

LOL!

It’s an axiom—those who fight to shed clothes SHOULD be wearing clothes!


8 posted on 11/15/2012 6:09:20 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Funny how the ones we really don’t want to see sans clothing, are the ones who want to bare it all.


9 posted on 11/15/2012 6:11:10 AM PST by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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To: massmike
" Okay....this HAS TO BE satire........."

You would think...
10 posted on 11/15/2012 6:11:34 AM PST by ari-freedom (It's the bennies, stupid.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Most people who wish to go nude in public are the last people on Earth who should be allowed to do so.


11 posted on 11/15/2012 6:11:52 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Here comes bama claus here comes bama claus left down bama claus lane!)
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TTIJFWOP

This Thread is Just Fine Without Pictures...

They showed up at the San Francisco Occupy protests too...marching right down Market street....and none of them were Jewish.

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12 posted on 11/15/2012 6:22:32 AM PST by zipper
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

As predicted by me five years ago. This is why it does no good to retreat from an issue and declare defeat. You never get rid of an issue...they push more. Just as acceptance of open gayness in the military has not removed gay issues, legal abortion has not taken that issue off the table, etc.


13 posted on 11/15/2012 6:41:58 AM PST by Anima Mundi (Envy is just passive, lazy greed.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

NUDO-PHOBIC ?!. . . Bwa Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!

What next?!?!!!


14 posted on 11/15/2012 6:52:15 AM PST by Twinkie (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Whose rights prevail in this situation?

Their “right” to nudity, or my “right” to not be offended/disgusted when I go downtown?


15 posted on 11/15/2012 6:54:23 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Re-distribute my work ethic, not my wealth!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
You don't have any rights. You're supposed to turn your neighborhood over to deviants of all sorts. First tolerance is demanded then outright support.
16 posted on 11/15/2012 7:18:00 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
Nudophobic bigotry....the civil rights issue of modern times.

Someday your children will ask you how you could have lived in a society where nudophobia was so rampant.

/s

17 posted on 11/15/2012 7:18:48 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

GO FOR IT!

Let the rest of the population see how much they will enjoy sitting down on the bus seat after you


18 posted on 11/15/2012 7:20:50 AM PST by Mr. K (We need a TEA PARTY MARCH ON GOP HEADQUARTERS!)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
And I should be praying for our politicians? The entire system we are living under needs to be blown up and started all over. God is not looking down on America in a favorable light as he maybe did back in the founding.
19 posted on 11/15/2012 7:26:57 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: freedumb2003

My thughts exactly. It’s NEVER the ripped, gorgeous types. It’s always the ones who don’t have anyone who WANTS to see them naked who feel compelled to MAKE others see them. It’s a real narcissistic fetish. The best thing to do is LAUGH! Point and laugh.


20 posted on 11/15/2012 7:49:33 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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