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To: little jeremiah
Porn shops and strip clubs must be allowed in areas even if the people living there don't want them.

You keep repeating this claim, but it is not consistent with current Supreme Court decisions on the matter. Communities have the power to greatly limit where adult businesses operate. SCOTUS has upheld, IIRC, zoning restrictions that excluded adult businesses from something like 95% of a community's territory.

And what have they been replaced with? A situation where even if the majority of people want very much, and vote for, or their elected representatives vote for some kind of restriction on, say, what level of disgusting obscentity or sexually explicit stuff should be allowed in some particular venue, a couple of judges in black robes, assisted by lawyers from the ACLU, tell the citizenry what must be.

Example, please. AFAIK, public indecency is still illegal pretty much everywhere in this country.

76 posted on 06/16/2005 8:37:50 AM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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To: Modernman

In my very small rural town, a porn shop opened on the main street, where lots of high school and middle school kids walk to and from school. You wouldn't believe all the letters to the editor, people arguing at the town meeting or whatever it's called. The mayor said there was nothing in state law that could stop the shop. So there it is - with kids walking by it all the time.

No, there hasn't been a referendum in this little town, but judging by the letters, the majority of people here did not want that porn shop in the middle of a very small downtown. Yet there it is, courtesy of the ACLU and a bunch of jackass judges.


79 posted on 06/16/2005 9:27:43 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it.)
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To: Modernman

Public indecency is still illegal etc? Ha. Whether it's illegal on the books or not has little relevance.

Ever seen any footage of "Gay Pride" parades, or been there in person?

Nuff said.


100 posted on 06/16/2005 1:05:11 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it.)
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