Posted on 07/30/2005 8:15:50 AM PDT by Asphalt
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Never mind officials voiding a $50 ticket for indecent exposure, or an explanation from county officials that a ranger who issued the citation to the breast-feeding mother was inexperienced.
Dorian Ryan said she wants an apology for what she called a "humiliating and degrading" experience.
"This isn't right. Women shouldn't be harassed for breast-feeding their children," Dorian Ryan said.
Colorado lawmakers agree. A law passed last year gives women the right to breast feed anywhere she's allowed to be in public.
Ryan, 43, was ticketed for indecent exposure July 14 when she breast fed her son at the Carter Lake swim beach in Larimer County. She was shielded from view by two umbrellas and a towel.
An inexperienced park ranger mistakenly issued the ticket, said Dan Rieves, manager of the Blue Mountain District, which oversees the beach. Park officials have voided the ticket.
Rieves, who has been in contact with Ryan, said a written apology would be sent Friday.
Good summary.
Did you have piles of "Readers' Digest" in your bathrooms growing up, too?
2nd time I've seen you go ad hominem. This is a debate/discussion. Why are you going "personal"?
My father's parents had TONS of them, all in the closets and bedside tables.
Those and "Weekly World News."
(Which explains a lot, eh?)
can't we all just agree...
apparently not
I question the judgement of anyone who fears that the common sense of the general public can so easily be desensitized to accept that.
There has, in fact, been a huge degradation in public behavior in the last 40 years, across the board. Try to hold the tide back at your own risk.
Personally I would focus my efforts more along the line of dealing with the youth who murders another in order to steal his ipod.
Breast-feeding in public, in my universe, is trivial by comparison. We can't set right every degradation of manners, but we can exhibit a sense of proportion and priorities. We can display disapproval without being a boor. We can argue by example.
But that's just me.
This will never be acceptable with the outrage-of-the-week bunch.
Kudos for your modest common sense. I would choose the same. Nowhere in the story did I see that this officer has a habit to overreact, and I know from experience that the young and inexperienced with some authority tend to overuse it. But the smart ones grow up.
As a convenience, never.
As a choice between that or wetting his trousers, sure.
If you can dig up any examples of babies butchering and slaughtering ma for a little smackerel of something, then you've got something.
I learn more new words at FR!
I've not seen one post on this monstrous thread with the 'in your face, I'll do what I want when I want with no regard to modesty' from any poster here that supports breastfeeding.
Have you had a baby? Women lose alot of dignity during the birthing process. Modesty is not taken lightly.
Yes, I've seen the leftist mental patients that exploit the breastfeeding process to promote their go topless cause. Leftist mental patients exploit alot of good causes to promote their nonesense. The big slippery slope that should never be gone down is lending credit to their stunts by confusing normal activity with their antics.
We are an educational bunch, are we not?
LOL!
Is the Major female? or Ted Kennedy?
To a fault!
Plus, equally important, most of us seem to have a healthy humor gene...
The people who want to banish nursing women to bathrooms are being priggishly attentive to propriety. I'm sorry your feelings were hurt.
Encouraging women to breast feed is the dumbest way to destroy the family.The women may bond to the baby ,and then they will want to be stay at home mommies.Breast feeding is diametrically opposed to all the left stand for.The left wanted to set women free from the worthless work of taking care of children.
Excellent excellent point Ghost!
She's all she!
Right before I got offline, I ran into someone who asked the Major, "Are those upgrades?"
I said, "They are all natural, soldier!"
He said, "I meant your boots."
So I said, "Oh, no, those are indeed upgrades. Stiletto combat boots aren't standard military issue. As far as I know."
(It is a GREAT game.)
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