Posted on 06/03/2023 1:33:19 PM PDT by buckalfa
A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that a state law limiting public drag show performances represented an “unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of speech.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
As disgusting as it is, can it be classified as public vulgarity like public nudity ? Not sure.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (John Adams)
The first Amendment was not written to protect drag queens in public, nor was it written to protect “mostly peaceful” BLM and Antifa rioters. There was a time, in my lifetime, where this was so self-evident that no one had to point it out.
Or restricted by age?
As we move closer and closer to the end, the world we live in lets evil out into the open more and more every day...
Trump appointed judges reverse 50 year old Roe v Wade decision. Just a reminder.
When grooming children into a perverse lifestyle is “speech” then I guess teaching them how to hot-wire Kias is A-Okay.
Let’s groom the judges kids.
Censorship is always a slippery slope, and it’s likely all attempts to limit speech will end up being won or lost in a higher court.
Sometimes the Constitution tells us that things we do not like or even think is immoral cannot be illegal.
Free Speech. Freedom of association.
If attendance is not mandatory, but attendees are of their own free will and no minors are compelled to be there.
It should be OK.
“The first Amendment was not written to protect drag queens in public”
Well Son of a Bitch! Learn something new every day.
I have always thought the Constitution was written for ALL Americans. Even those we dislike.
So morality around children is now somehow illegal?
I would hope this decision gets appealed. The judge has a very malleable definition of speech. By his definition, all public decency laws violate the 1st Amendment and are illegal.
“Thoughts?”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.....
The only “drag” shows I want to see these pervs in involve a horse and a whole lot of dust.
there ... that’s my thought ...
If dressing in drag in public is speech, then so is walking around in public, naked.
Our constitution protects the holding of “drag shows” unless some other law is broken.
Nudity etc. is prohibited.
Queers dressing up like wimmins is not.
And I’ll bet twenty years ago a judge in this position that had a drag queen before him/her that was charged with performing their act in an elementary school would have sentenced that person to 20 years in prison.
I believe yes it is a breach of speech rights laws, but also 100 people there calling them pedophiles is also free speech.
The law supposedly classified male or female impersonators as adult entertainers, in the same class as topless dancers, strippers, etc. If that’s the case, then the law was always going to have problems when it got before a judge, any judge.
You people who don't understand how The Process works, shut it. You should have paid more attention in pubrik skrewel.
"The state Senate passed the bill earlier Thursday along party lines to limit “adult cabaret performances” on public property so as to shield them from the view of children, threatening violators with a misdemeanor and repeat offenders with a felony.The bill, which the Tennessee House passed last week, defines an adult cabaret performance as a performance “that features topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest, or similar entertainers.”
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