Posted on 03/16/2023 10:42:52 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
A major Florida hotel cast off blame after the DeSantis administration announced that it was moving to strip its liquor license over a sexually explicit Christmas-themed drag show with children present.
The Hyatt Regency Miami hosted "A Drag Queen Christmas" in December, which included performers rubbing prosthetic breasts and genitals on the faces and mouths of attendees, exposed rears, simulated masturbation, "graphic depictions of childbirth and/or abortion," according to a complaint the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation filed.
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Sexual remixes to popular Christmas songs such as "Screwdolph the Red-Nippled Reindeer," were also played with explicit lyrics including, "You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Vomit and Stupid and Dildo and D***s-in…" and "Then one soggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say ‘Screwdolph with your nipples so bright won’t you guide my sleigh tonight," according to the department.
Neither the James L. Knight Center nor the city of Miami returned requests for comment. ASM Global, the group that manages the venue, according to its website, also didn't return a request for comment.
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According to the article, they can’t yank the license without following the law and allowing the hotel 21 days to request a hearing.
Anyone who has draq queen shows should be required to have a liquor license.
That would mean elementary schools, libraries, stores, and most public places that allow children would NOT be allowed to have drag queen shows because they don't have a liquor license.
Yes, we used to be able to enforce “community standards”.
Stripped our communities from being able to do that.
I remember in the 50’s and 60’s how important that was. We had vagrancy laws that were strictly enforced. Yes, we had hobos and bums, but they kept moving and stayed in hobo jungles in the freight yards.
AND ... criminal prosecution would be up to the city police, local sheriff’s department and the county prosecutors — not the state government
Behold the DeSantis Derangement Syndrome!
Perhaps there’s a process to remove a liquor license? Or do you prefer that all government chief executives act by decree?
I don’t want the prosecutor to be judge and jury.
Or, presumably, for the chief executive to write and approve legislation as well as carry out the legislation.
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