“Section 16-15-370. (A) It is unlawful for a person in a public forum or place of public accommodation wilfully and knowingly to publish orally or in writing, exhibit, or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature.
(B) A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
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I think you need to study this some more, there are two sections and you ignore the one above. The way I read it the new law would not limit the offense to offenses against minors at all. It would appear that any drunk in a public bar who makes an “indecent” comment would be liable to a fine of up to $5000. and or a five year prison sentence. If I read it correctly this is an abomination, a heinous offense against liberty and not even a matter of opinion at all. Admittedly legal language is not my forte, could someone schooled in the subject please comment?
Assuming I am not missing something this would fall under the warning Ayn Rand gave long ago that government cannot control law-abiding people so in the end so many laws will be passed than it is impossible to live without breaking a law. Who will decide what is indecent? Will, “I can’t stand liberals” be considered an indecent comment?
Even if you were right and I don’t think you are insofar as minors having to be involved, I am appalled that you would consider this “Not a bad law in my opinion”, half the hard-working fathers and many of the mothers I knew growing up would have been subject to imprisonment for what they said in front of their own children and their families would have been left wards of the state. Personally I find you to be the one who is hysterical! This proposal is a grevious offense against reason worthy of the maddest of mullahs excepting only that they believe in stoning or flogging rather than imprisonment.
Well you are reading it entirely wrong. This bill is not a law unto itself, but instead an amendment to an existing law.
If you take the proposed amendments (like Section 16-15-370 that you referenced above) and insert them into the existing South Carolina Code of Laws, You will find out that they are smack dab in the middle of a section called ""OBSCENITY, MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS, CHILD EXPLOITATION, AND CHILD PROSTITUTION"" which is the section of the obscenity laws perpetuated against children.
The obscenity laws relating to adults is in the chapter before this one.
Maybe you need to study this more, or at least learn how to insert proposed revisions into existing code. Many bills are nonsense if not read in the proper context of the existing code.