George F. Will: Lap dancing may become next right

Union Leader ^ | 6/27/03 | George F. Will

[kattracks]

EAGER TO IMPROVE their town’s moral tone, Los Angeles city councilors are considering an ordinance to improve decorum at strip clubs: No lap dances — dancers are required to remain six feet from customers — no direct tipping, no private VIP rooms in clubs with full nudity. Advocates of the ordinance say such goings-on lead to prostitution.

Opponents of the ordinance, including the dancers, deny that prostitution flourishes at the clubs. And they call the ordinance an unconstitutional abridgement of free artistic expression. But a federal appeals court upheld a law in Washington state requiring dancers to stay 10 feet from customers. Opponents should haul out the heavy constitutional artillery — the privacy right.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"George F. Will: Lap dancing may become next right"

Please God, let it be Will's right
to receive one, not to perform one.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

My wife, unabashed liberal that she is, thinks George Will is the sexiest guy on earth.

I don't get it either. But it probably explains why she married me.

[defeat_the_dem_igods]

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything..." Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa

Hmmm...

[MichiganMan]

EAGER TO IMPROVE their town’s moral tone, Los Angeles

?!?!!? Ok, now here you have an example of closing the barn door after the horse have been let out, fled the farm, died of old age, and long since been turned into glue.

[NerdDad]

"Lap dancing may become next right "

I know a guy who wanted to be head coach at Univ of Alabama (Mike Price) who would join this push. A lap dance and some room service cost him a $7 mil contract.

[eno_]

"You have the right to anything..." ...that isn't given to the federal or state governments to regulate. Yes. True.

Santorum is horrified that intrusive unenforceable laws with no high justification in exceptional matters like national security might be struck down because they imply entering the home or otherwise encouraging law enforcement to stretch the limits of probable cause and reasonable search. Boo hoo.

[KCmark]

Agreed, no more laws to lock up citizens for crimes against no one.

[paulklenk]

Advocates of the ordinance say such goings-on lead to prostitution.

And prostitution leads to dancing...

[John Beresford Tipton]

"And prostitution leads to dancing..."

Just like in River City:

"Now one fine night they leave the pool hall
headin' for the dance at the Armory
Libertine men and scarlet women and ragtime
Shameless music that'll grab your son, your daughter
into the arms of a jungle animal instinct- massteria!
Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground, trouble!

(TOWNSPEOPLE)
Oh, we got trouble

(HAROLD)
Right here in River City"

[tomahawk]

How many citizens were being locked up under the anti-buggery laws, maybe one or two in 20 years? Give me a break.

SCOTUS has embraced the gay agenda and it will soon be metasticizing in all sorts of destructive forms. Gay marriage is coming.

[Beck_isright]

"It has been clearly demonstrated that there are no limits to the restrictions that this clown shoes government can put on a business."

That's by God right! In some cities you can't get a lap dance, can't smoke a cig, and can't wear perfume or cologne. In those same cities though you can go to a bathouse and engage in disgusting acts of homosexual sex though and that is called a "cultural enhancement". The left has won. Senator Santorum was quite prophetic.

[jwalsh07]

Agreed, no more laws to lock up citizens for crimes against no one

No, but perhaps a small one to stamp Enabler on the heads of those dancing around the fire whooping it up at the SCOTUS once again usurping and gathering all the power it can in one small building.

At the local level of course where these things belong.

[appeal2]

I thought it was a right already.

[tdadams]

How many citizens were being locked up under the anti-buggery laws, maybe one or two in 20 years?

Whether the number is one or one hundred is irrelevant. The fact that anyone could be prosecuted under this law is antitheical to individual liberty.

Besides that, as Justice Kennedy very eloquently explain in his opinion, the law had a far wider reach than merely the number who may be prosecuted. The anti-sodomy law was used as the basis for a pervasive stigma. It also was intrusive in that any arrest or conviction under the law could have implications in a person's employment. The statute also allowed a person to be declared an unfit parent per se in custody disputes.

[Larry Lucido]

A lap dance and some room service cost him a $7 mil contract.

He'd probably be head coach now if he had used his own credit card for the lap dance and "room service."

[kittymyrib]

Someday soon, Christians will have to remember that they are the "called-out ones" and separate themselves into an alternate society. That used to be the church, but the church today is a copy of the world around it. Someone intelligent needs to start thinking about how those of us who are disturbed by the head-long slide into evil of our nation can set up a workable alternative for believers in Jesus. Perhaps we need to go back and see how the early Christians did this in the time of the Roman Empire...and yes, there will be suffering and hardship. We've seen the softest years for believers. Get ready. It will be tough, just as the Bible says.

[ladyjane]

Agree with your wife. He's very attractive.