For me I applaud him/her for at least trying. As a father of 4 (3 girls and 1 boy), and as a season ticket holder for the Washington Redskins, I sell the tickets each year or get ready for a fight as the 1st Amendment classless speech folks use every word imaginable to discuss the game or my two older daughters.
Call me a prude, but if your vocabulary is that limited that the best you can come up with is “F” you, or you're “full of S”, well then perhaps a good English Lit class at your local community college would be of help.
I'm with George Washington on this one.
Added to this it is a vice so mean and low without any temptation that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
>> For me I applaud him/her for at least trying.
Don’t kid yourself. Look behind *your* definition of profane speech, to Senator Ford’s definition.
He’s not aiming at the “F-—” and “S-—” and so forth that you and George Washington rightly consider profane and wrong.
He’s aiming at “Fag” and “N-——” and “Dimocrap”.
And he won’t stop there. Here is the bill:
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/56.htm
Note that what exactly constitutes “profane speech” IS NOT DEFINED in his bill.
This is a naked attempt to give his party (can you guess which one?) a means to attack all manner of opponents — speakers, pamphlets, INTERNET FORUMS, BLOGGERS, ...
The defintion is so vague that they could go after just about ANYONE who disagrees with them.
Preaching about the evils of homosexuality? That’s profane! You will be called into court to defend yourself! Oh, sure, you’ll probably be vindicated, but not until you have spent lots of $$$ and time.
The desired effect is to shut down political and religious free speech.
Senator Robert Ford is evil, and so are his intentions.
For a laugh, google him up and see that he’s just another black-liberation democrap legislator behaving badly because he can get away with it. I particularly liked the “it’s ok for me to park in a fire lane” trick.
I’m with George Washington on this one.
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So am I as far as the quote goes but I don’t see where he called for huge fines and or long imprisonments. This law is absurd in its tyrannical implications. I am ashamed to know that it was proposed in my state.