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High court lets Alabama sex-toy ban stand
seattletimes.com ^ | 10/01/07 | PHILLIP RAWLS

Posted on 10/02/2007 4:35:31 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to hear a challenge to Alabama's ban on the sale of sex toys, ending a nine-year legal battle and sending a warning to store owners to clean off their shelves. An adult-store owner had asked the justices to throw out the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the privacy of the bedroom. But the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law. Sherri Williams, owner of Pleasures stores in Huntsville and Decatur, said she was disappointed, but plans to sue again on First Amendment free speech grounds. "My motto has been they are going to have to pry this vibrator from my cold, dead hand. I refuse to give up," she said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alabama; bonerfidemedpurpose; freemillee; freesquishy; frmodprudesquad; locked; nomoreblasty; scotus; sextoys; unjustifiedbannings
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To: Shyla

That should have been “what is with this”.....

sheesh


81 posted on 10/02/2007 10:32:12 AM PDT by Shyla
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To: Shyla

I barely know how to reply, let alone post a whole thread!

I’m html challenged. I also don’t have her sources.


82 posted on 10/02/2007 10:32:23 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: Hoodlum91
I believe it had something to do with a thread about Loud Orgasms.

I am guessing from what I have seen in the past, the thread would have been fine if it was posted by a man and filled with pics of bikini clad women.

Fun Nazis Killed Millee!!

83 posted on 10/02/2007 10:34:19 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Bummer. Serious nanny state attitude. Hopefully the people of Alabama will do something about it.


84 posted on 10/02/2007 10:35:00 AM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Chill out,,Spades a Spade,,not a diamond.We raised 5 kids,I reckon the wife and myself do live in the dark ages,,Bet you ride a rice burner..


85 posted on 10/02/2007 10:35:36 AM PDT by silentreignofheroes (When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
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To: silentreignofheroes
This whore can move to Florida,we don’t want this here

We'll take her.

86 posted on 10/02/2007 10:43:12 AM PDT by Chanticleer (I want God, I want Poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.)
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To: silentreignofheroes
Harley Softail...

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Just put a 127 CI engine on it. It will beat rice rockets.

87 posted on 10/02/2007 10:45:02 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Watch out....Millee got banned for posting threads like this.

**************

Are you certain she was banned and not suspended? Regardless, there must be much more to the story.

88 posted on 10/02/2007 10:55:48 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

I was told banned.


89 posted on 10/02/2007 10:56:44 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

I always said JRBC has a soft tail.


90 posted on 10/02/2007 10:57:37 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: Larry Lucido

You’re so silly....


91 posted on 10/02/2007 11:00:52 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: varyouga
What’s next? Banning anything that can be used as a toy?

Next is banning lotion, vaseline, plastic baggies, and casaba melons (or so I have heard).

92 posted on 10/02/2007 11:02:18 AM PDT by Caesar Soze
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To: trisham
E-mailed Millee. No back story that In know of....

From the mods:

Free Republic is not a sex chat site, it’s a conservative political site.

Find another site to post this garbage.

AM

93 posted on 10/02/2007 11:05:04 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
I was told banned.

**************

It's not really that easy to get banned, at least, not from what I have seen. The procedure seems to include at least a couple of cautions and warnings, except in the most egregious cases. I looked through Millee's posting history and didn't find anything that seemed to justify a banning, so I am guessing that the thread involved was pulled. That in itself seems to indicate that something somewhat offensive may have occurred there.

Remember too, that this site is primarily political:

Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it

94 posted on 10/02/2007 11:05:23 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

I still like the Freeper a while back who angrily denied that he and his wife had ever engaged in oral sex.


95 posted on 10/02/2007 11:05:37 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: martin_fierro

Insufficient evidence.


96 posted on 10/02/2007 11:06:00 AM PDT by rattrap
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

“”””It will beat rice rockets””””””

Holy crap I am LMAO. That is truly the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Surely you are kidding.....


97 posted on 10/02/2007 11:07:08 AM PDT by shbox
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To: varyouga
They had better ban washing machines and dryers, electric toothbrushes... wow, the list could go on and on...

Mark

98 posted on 10/02/2007 11:07:20 AM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: shbox

160 HP.


99 posted on 10/02/2007 11:08:14 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

No wonder he was angry.


100 posted on 10/02/2007 11:09:54 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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