Religions > Atheism > Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams) {Damned Superstitious inbred pig ignorance}
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• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
Well, I am glad to see that the local legislators are focusing on the
most pressing issues of the day. I’ve long believed that a
three-dimensional, possibly battery-operated device is far more menacing
than a handgun. In Mississippi, people can buy guns at a gun show with
no background check and certain weapons can be carried almost anywhere.
Sure, guns and toys can bring joy and a sense of comfort to the user,
but apparently the legislators concluded that a genital replica is a far
greater threat to society.
This, from a state that levies only an 18-cent tax on cigarettes, 55
cents below the national average and where 62 percent of residents are
overweight, making it the fattest state in the country. Yet still the
public schools don’t make gym class compulsory. Mississippi’s laws
would make you believe sex is the single greatest threat to public
safety and well-being. After all, it’s illegal in Mississippi to have
sex with someone you’re not married to or to live with someone other
than your spouse.
Both can result in a $500 fine and six months in jail. And men are not
permitted to be aroused in public. But at least good people are
protected from the disfigurement that could result from an accidental
electrical overload from a defective toy.
Georgia and Texas have passed similar bans and courts have repeatedly
ruled the legislators have the power to do it. I guess the Second
Amendment doesn’t say anything about the right to bear a stimulation
device.
But the sex activists are not closing up shop in the South Pole just
yet. They formed a lobbying group based in Florida called the National
Alliance of Adult Trade Organizations or NAATO. Not, of course, to be
confused with the other NATO, which is based in Brussels.
I don’t mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people,
but I just don’t get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this
law. We’re talking about adults here. It’s not that I really care
about ensuring that these toys are ready accessible. Really. It’s just
that you have to wonder, is one of these toys really a greater threat to
the community than what real live people do to each other every day?
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21 Mar 2006 09:47:49 PM |
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"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
. March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
[snip]
TX has similar laws. It seems silly to me,
but then most of the laws based on "morality"
in the Babble Belt seem silly to me.
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:47:49 GMT, "Gail Futoran"
<futoran@nospam.worldnet.att.net> wrote in alt.atheism
"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
. March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
[snip]
TX has similar laws. It seems silly to me,
but then most of the laws based on "morality"
in the Babble Belt seem silly to me.
The Babble Belt is a hot bed of immorality and ignorance.
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http://tinyurl.com/fb47v
Capitalism and sex-toys in China
Family values
Dec 20th 2005 | SHANGHAI AND WENZHOU
From The Economist print edition
A case-study in entrepreneurship
Imaginechina
THE day the Wu clan formally reopened its ancestral temple was a
festive one. In the brutal era of Mao Zedong, the temple (which is over
700 years old) was destroyed and clan elders hid the Wu family archives
from Red Guard fanatics. Puritanical communists despised the ancient
kinship networks that had traditionally been a crucial support to
aspirants in business or politics.
More recently a privately owned machinery factory sat in the temple
grounds. Now the factory had been razed and the Wu temple restored to
its glory by a dirty river. Houses were draped with red banners and
bunting. Firecrackers scattered the demons, and clansmen from far and
wide filed into the incense-filled hall to bow before portraits of the
clan's ancestors. The hero of that spring day in 2003, greeting guests,
and leading a noisy parade through the streets, was Wu Zhenwang: acting
chief of the local Wu clan, rebuilder of the temple, and China's sex
toy king.
Chief Wu's name tops the list of donors to the temple displayed in the
entrance. He is the wealthiest Wu they know in Yongqiang, a satellite
town of Wenzhou, a city 365km (227 miles) south of Shanghai famed for
its embrace of raw capitalism. And Chief Wu's risqu=E9 line of products?
No concern about that. He has done well, and in Wenzhou that is what
counts. In the clan register they proudly point not only to Chief Wu's
name, but also to those of his three sons who help him control much of
China's burgeoning production, domestic sales and exports of "items
for adult use". Theirs is a very traditional Chinese family-run
business.
Private businesses have proliferated in China since the early 1990s,
thanks to the Communist Party's gradual abandonment of efforts to keep
them in check. A few have now grown to significant size. This has
raised questions in China about whether the kind of dynastic business
empires run by ethnic Chinese that have been a prominent feature of
many Asian economies will emerge in China itself. The Communist Party
grudgingly opened its doors to private entrepreneurs only three years
ago. But it remains uneasy about the age-old practice of keeping
businesses under patriarchal control and handing them down through the
male line.
And it is just as uneasy about sex, although the visitor to the Wu
showroom in Wenzhou, run by the 36-year-old eldest son, Wu Wei, might
not believe it. Mr Wu pauses only briefly in the first section, adorned
with reproductions of antique Chinese paintings of copulating couples.
He points to one showing women in classical attire buying dildos from a
street merchant. "Look, they used them in those days", he says, as
if to justify with historical precedent what comes next.
Mr Wu ushers the visitor into the main exhibition: row upon row of sex
toys in a rainbow array of rubber, plastic, leather and-he proudly
asks your correspondent to squeeze this one-a sponge-like material
designed to simulate the texture of female flesh. Hung on one wall is a
macabre line of near life-size inflatable dolls, their rouged mouths
agape as if in horror at the implements before them: the Vertical
Double Dong, the Occidental Vagina, the Waterproof Warhead Vibe
("Bathtime was never this fun") and a variety of black leather and
metal goods for fans of sadism and masochism (for overseas markets,
that is; the Wus see S&M potential in China too, but party cadres do
not).
The production lines themselves are off-limits to most visitors. Many
of the workers are young peasant women, perhaps not eager to be seen
putting the finishing touches to a Christmas Lover vibrator. Elder
Brother Wu says that despite higher than average wages at the factory,
about a third of job seekers withdraw their applications when they find
out what they would be doing. But ironically it is China's sexual
conservatism that has enabled the Wus to corner a market and prosper.
China's new private businesses have often done best where state-owned
enterprises, until a few years ago the economy's mainstay, have been
too sluggish (or prudish) to respond to rapidly evolving markets. The
Wu family spotted their chance after China's first sex-toy shop opened
in Beijing in 1992. Chief Wu, who owned an electrical machinery
business, took his family to have a look. They noticed that the
products were mostly imported and very expensive. Thanks to his good
connections with local officials (a prerequisite of success for the
Chinese entrepreneur) and effective lobbying in Beijing, he was able to
get permission to produce them in Wenzhou.
With no other local government daring enough to follow suit, the Wus
monopolized production and expanded rapidly thanks to strong demand
from overseas companies for made-to-order sex toys. Unlike most Chinese
family-run businesses, which resist diluting ownership, Wenzhou Lover
Health Products saw the benefit of forming a joint-venture. They chose
as their minority partner a Japanese sex-toy maker to take advantage of
its knowledge of the relevant technology and contacts in foreign
markets.
Imaginechina
At home, sex-toy shops spread rapidly-few of them officially licensed
but all eager for the low-priced goods that the Wu business had to
offer. Such is the power of Chinese consumerism that, for all the
party's disdain, sex shops became more commonplace in urban China than
they are in most western cities. The Wus defend their products to
sometimes sceptical officials by arguing that they help promote marital
harmony, deter men from seeking prostitutes and keep the population in
check by allowing people to relieve their frustrations without engaging
in real sex.
Some of Asia's biggest Chinese family-run businesses have prospered in
the last century by gaining monopolistic or oligopolistic control of
markets thanks to good official connections. If any company in China
enjoys privileges in a market, it is almost invariably state-owned. The
Wus' monopoly eventually eroded as other local governments, sensing tax
opportunities, began to lose their inhibitions.
The virtues of self-reliance
Several privately run competitors to the Wu family business have sprung
up along the coast from the industrial rustbelt of Liaoning in the
north-east to Guangdong in the south, turning China into the world's
biggest producer of masturbatory aids. Last year Shanghai began hosting
an annual sex-toy trade fair. Elder Brother Wu says his company still
has about 60% of the domestic market, but prices and profit margins are
dropping.
Family-run businesses in China must survive more by their wits than by
official patronage or the cheap credit that state-owned firms enjoy.
State-owned banks often turn up their noses at private businesses, and
most of the companies approved for listing on China's stock exchanges
are state-controlled.
The Wu family empire is trying to adjust to the rapid evolution of
China's sex-toy industry. Brother number two, 35-year-old Wu Hui, is
spearheading the effort. His company (the three brothers' businesses
are separate but interdependent) has exclusive control of the
distribution of the Wus' products in China. He believes that profits
can be sustained only if more value is added to the company's brands:
Loves, LustyCity and Daily Planet.
The way to do this, Wu Hui says, is to set up chain-stores across the
country to give the products a more upmarket image. Unlike the grubby
little stores around China offering "health protection items", the
franchised outlets would have trained staff. Storefronts would be
clearly branded in red and yellow with a sun and moon logo. Wu Hui and
the youngest brother, Wu Xiao (who runs the retail business in
Shanghai), already own 20 or so. The plan is to have 1,000 of them
across the country, beginning with at least two in each provincial
capital. A training centre for franchisees (who will pay some $74,000
for a license and keep any profits) will be set up in Shanghai, as well
as a new factory.
But making it big and staying big as a family-run business in China is
fraught with difficulty. (Despite its growth, the factory in Wenzhou
would count only as a small- to medium-size enterprise.) The odds of
making it to the top will long remain stacked in favour of state-owned
firms. Only 15% of China's biggest 500 companies are privately owned.
Their combined capital amounts to less than 3% of the list's total,
even though private enterprises now contribute some 60% of China's GDP.
None is in the top 50. The biggest family-run business, an agricultural
conglomerate controlled by four brothers, the Hope Group, ranks a mere
105.
Several of China's most prominent private businesspeople have ended up
in prison in recent years. In a world where rules quickly change, few
trust or respect the law, and big profits can be made in grey areas of
ill-regulated markets, the legitimacy of almost any businessman's
wealth is open to question. The rich therefore become easy targets if
they fail to keep on the right side of officialdom. Many prefer to
avoid media attention and find ways of keeping their gains in havens
abroad.
Another obstacle to dynastic businesses is demographic. Mr Wu the
elder, who is 59, had his three sons before China imposed its one-child
policy in the late 1970s. Each of the three sons, however, has only one
son. This leaves little room for manoeuvre should any of them lack
business acumen, or the imperviousness to embarrassment that is
required to sell synthetic genitalia. The likelihood, however, is that
growing numbers of China's nouveaux riches will ignore family-planning
policies and have as many children as they can afford to pay the fines
for.
Chief Wu would be considered blessed in having three sons to choose
from. In Chinese tradition, daughters are considered to have left the
family when they marry and hence are unlikely to inherit a father's
business. Chief Wu's 20-year-old daughter's name is not even recorded
in the clan records. She spent a few weeks working in the Wenzhou
factory, but decided to pursue studies in America rather than go into
the family business.
Successful private enterprises in China were founded only within the
past few years, making the problem of succession from the first to
second generation (Chief Wu to his sons) a new one. The trickier
transition from second to third generation is still several years away.
A report this year by the China Enterprise Confederation in Beijing
said that a "sizeable proportion" of family-run businesses lacked
capable successors yet remained very unwilling to groom outsiders. And
with no promise of a significant stake in a business, professional
managers are hard to recruit.
As perhaps befits his junior ranking in the family, the youngest son,
Wu Xiao, says he does not share his father's enthusiasm for clan
activities ("it's just for old people"). And he is all for
rewarding talented employees with shares in the business. "The family
style of ownership prevents the progress of an enterprise," he says.
But Wu the younger is as enthusiastic as his brothers when it comes to
the promise of the trade itself. If only the party would ease up on
pornography, he says, that would be a tremendous boost to the industry.
But, he laments, that is unlikely to happen at least until his baby son
grows up.
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22 Mar 2006 01:24:38 AM |
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In article <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
Idiots. I suppose that according to them, sex isn't supposed to be fun.
I think the fit Mencken's definition of Puritans as people possessed by
the ³haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy".
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "Matt Silberstein" |
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22 Mar 2006 09:08:48 AM |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:24:38 -0800, in alt.atheism , johac
<jhachmann@sbcglobal.com> in
<jhachmann-543955.23243821032006@news.giganews.com> wrote:
In article <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
Idiots. I suppose that according to them, sex isn't supposed to be fun.
It is, in fact, the official Catholic position and a big theological
aspect of the objections to homosexuality. I really wish that someone
would call a politician, say Alan Keyes, on this. Sex is supposed to
be for procreation only. In that context it can have other aspects,
but sex for fun is morally wrong according to Catholic theology.
I think the fit Mencken's definition of Puritans as people possessed by
the ³haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy".
Or, as Twain put it, Puritans opposed bear baiting not because it was
bad for the bear but because people liked it. One of the great and
successful Republican lies of the last 40 years is that liberals are
the anti-fun moralists.
--
Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
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23 Mar 2006 12:40:58 AM |
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In article <vup222hcdu6ki046hhmike4g7k24in7uvf@4ax.com>,
Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:24:38 -0800, in alt.atheism , johac
<jhachmann@sbcglobal.com> in
<jhachmann-543955.23243821032006@news.giganews.com> wrote:
In article <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
Idiots. I suppose that according to them, sex isn't supposed to be fun.
It is, in fact, the official Catholic position and a big theological
aspect of the objections to homosexuality. I really wish that someone
would call a politician, say Alan Keyes, on this. Sex is supposed to
be for procreation only. In that context it can have other aspects,
but sex for fun is morally wrong according to Catholic theology.
That's what the nuns and the priests told us in school. Somehow, I got
the impression that they only tolerated sex for procreation because they
needed more Catholics.
I think the fit Mencken's definition of Puritans as people possessed by
the ³haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy".
Or, as Twain put it, Puritans opposed bear baiting not because it was
bad for the bear but because people liked it.
One of the great and
successful Republican lies of the last 40 years is that liberals are
the anti-fun moralists.
But the Religious Right keeps dissing us for being hedonists. Go figure.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:40:58 -0800, in alt.atheism , johac
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<jhachmann-6FBF85.22405822032006@news.giganews.com> wrote:
In article <vup222hcdu6ki046hhmike4g7k24in7uvf@4ax.com>,
Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
[snip]
One of the great and
successful Republican lies of the last 40 years is that liberals are
the anti-fun moralists.
But the Religious Right keeps dissing us for being hedonists. Go figure.
They have also convinced lots of poor people that taxes on estates of
over $1,000,000 is horrible.
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Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
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24 Mar 2006 09:15:53 PM |
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In article <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>, stoney
<stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
I once watched my partner get herself off while pressing against the
corner of the washing machine during the spin cycle.
They gonna outlaw Maytags?
-chib
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24 Mar 2006 09:31:52 PM |
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"chibiabos" <chib@nospam.com> wrote in message
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In article <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>, stoney
<stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
. March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
I once watched my partner get herself off while pressing against the
corner of the washing machine during the spin cycle.
I've heard about those washing machine ;)
They gonna outlaw Maytags?
Goodness, I think I have some laundry to do ;)
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Robyn
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Atheist ***** Extraordinaire
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22 Mar 2006 06:29:43 PM |
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In article <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>, stoney
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I don=3Ft mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people,
but I just don=3Ft get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this
law.
Aside from the perennial Christian hatred for sex (or for
anything that brings joy to people outside the context of faith
and church), it's an attack on the very notion of privacy
rights. Kill privacy and you kill any number of troublesome
judicial decisions that rest upon it -- most importantly, Roe v.
Wade.
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:29:43 -0500, Brian E. Clark
<reply@newsgroup.only.please> wrote in alt.atheism
In article <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>, stoney
said...
I don=3Ft mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people,
but I just don=3Ft get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this
law.
Aside from the perennial Christian hatred for sex (or for
anything that brings joy to people outside the context of faith
and church), it's an attack on the very notion of privacy
rights. Kill privacy and you kill any number of troublesome
judicial decisions that rest upon it -- most importantly, Roe v.
Wade.
Privacy is long dead-especially when Congress is going to rewrite the
laws Shrub broke.
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Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a cornucopia of splinters.
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21 Mar 2006 10:13:09 PM |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>
wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
Well, I am glad to see that the local legislators are focusing on the
most pressing issues of the day. I’ve long believed that a
three-dimensional, possibly battery-operated device is far more menacing
than a handgun. In Mississippi, people can buy guns at a gun show with
no background check and certain weapons can be carried almost anywhere.
Sure, guns and toys can bring joy and a sense of comfort to the user,
but apparently the legislators concluded that a genital replica is a far
greater threat to society.
This, from a state that levies only an 18-cent tax on cigarettes, 55
cents below the national average and where 62 percent of residents are
overweight, making it the fattest state in the country. Yet still the
public schools don’t make gym class compulsory. Mississippi’s laws
would make you believe sex is the single greatest threat to public
safety and well-being. After all, it’s illegal in Mississippi to have
sex with someone you’re not married to or to live with someone other
than your spouse.
Both can result in a $500 fine and six months in jail. And men are not
permitted to be aroused in public. But at least good people are
protected from the disfigurement that could result from an accidental
electrical overload from a defective toy.
Georgia and Texas have passed similar bans and courts have repeatedly
ruled the legislators have the power to do it. I guess the Second
Amendment doesn’t say anything about the right to bear a stimulation
device.
But the sex activists are not closing up shop in the South Pole just
yet. They formed a lobbying group based in Florida called the National
Alliance of Adult Trade Organizations or NAATO. Not, of course, to be
confused with the other NATO, which is based in Brussels.
I don’t mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people,
but I just don’t get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this
law. We’re talking about adults here. It’s not that I really care
about ensuring that these toys are ready accessible. Really. It’s just
that you have to wonder, is one of these toys really a greater threat to
the community than what real live people do to each other every day?
/end
You don't understand? I will explain this to you. It is an attempt to
set up a legal challenge to Roe v Wade and Lawrence v Texas (the
sodomy case). The legal reasoning for both of those flows from
Griswold v CT (http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/149/). SCOTUS
ruled then that there are areas of our lives that are too private for
the government to interfere. They can't attack Roe directly so they
want to undermine it. If they can get the court to rule that the state
has the right to outlaw sex toys then they can go directly to the
privacy claim of Roe and Lawrence.
--
Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:13:09 GMT, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>
wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
Well, I am glad to see that the local legislators are focusing on the
most pressing issues of the day. I’ve long believed that a
three-dimensional, possibly battery-operated device is far more menacing
than a handgun. In Mississippi, people can buy guns at a gun show with
no background check and certain weapons can be carried almost anywhere.
Sure, guns and toys can bring joy and a sense of comfort to the user,
but apparently the legislators concluded that a genital replica is a far
greater threat to society.
This, from a state that levies only an 18-cent tax on cigarettes, 55
cents below the national average and where 62 percent of residents are
overweight, making it the fattest state in the country. Yet still the
public schools don’t make gym class compulsory. Mississippi’s laws
would make you believe sex is the single greatest threat to public
safety and well-being. After all, it’s illegal in Mississippi to have
sex with someone you’re not married to or to live with someone other
than your spouse.
Both can result in a $500 fine and six months in jail. And men are not
permitted to be aroused in public. But at least good people are
protected from the disfigurement that could result from an accidental
electrical overload from a defective toy.
Georgia and Texas have passed similar bans and courts have repeatedly
ruled the legislators have the power to do it. I guess the Second
Amendment doesn’t say anything about the right to bear a stimulation
device.
But the sex activists are not closing up shop in the South Pole just
yet. They formed a lobbying group based in Florida called the National
Alliance of Adult Trade Organizations or NAATO. Not, of course, to be
confused with the other NATO, which is based in Brussels.
I don’t mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people,
but I just don’t get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this
law. We’re talking about adults here. It’s not that I really care
about ensuring that these toys are ready accessible. Really. It’s just
that you have to wonder, is one of these toys really a greater threat to
the community than what real live people do to each other every day?
/end
You don't understand? I will explain this to you. It is an attempt to
set up a legal challenge to Roe v Wade and Lawrence v Texas (the
sodomy case). The legal reasoning for both of those flows from
Griswold v CT (http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/149/). SCOTUS
ruled then that there are areas of our lives that are too private for
the government to interfere. They can't attack Roe directly so they
want to undermine it. If they can get the court to rule that the state
has the right to outlaw sex toys then they can go directly to the
privacy claim of Roe and Lawrence.
Those filthy, rotten sons of bitches! They need to relax, enjoy their
bodies and sex, instead of taking it away from the rest of us because
they're not allowed to do it themselves.
Sunyata
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24 Mar 2006 08:50:14 PM |
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:59 -0500, wrote in
alt.atheism
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:13:09 GMT, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com>
wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
Well, I am glad to see that the local legislators are focusing on the
most pressing issues of the day. I’ve long believed that a
three-dimensional, possibly battery-operated device is far more menacing
than a handgun. In Mississippi, people can buy guns at a gun show with
no background check and certain weapons can be carried almost anywhere.
Sure, guns and toys can bring joy and a sense of comfort to the user,
but apparently the legislators concluded that a genital replica is a far
greater threat to society.
This, from a state that levies only an 18-cent tax on cigarettes, 55
cents below the national average and where 62 percent of residents are
overweight, making it the fattest state in the country. Yet still the
public schools don’t make gym class compulsory. Mississippi’s laws
would make you believe sex is the single greatest threat to public
safety and well-being. After all, it’s illegal in Mississippi to have
sex with someone you’re not married to or to live with someone other
than your spouse.
Both can result in a $500 fine and six months in jail. And men are not
permitted to be aroused in public. But at least good people are
protected from the disfigurement that could result from an accidental
electrical overload from a defective toy.
Georgia and Texas have passed similar bans and courts have repeatedly
ruled the legislators have the power to do it. I guess the Second
Amendment doesn’t say anything about the right to bear a stimulation
device.
But the sex activists are not closing up shop in the South Pole just
yet. They formed a lobbying group based in Florida called the National
Alliance of Adult Trade Organizations or NAATO. Not, of course, to be
confused with the other NATO, which is based in Brussels.
I don’t mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people,
but I just don’t get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this
law. We’re talking about adults here. It’s not that I really care
about ensuring that these toys are ready accessible. Really. It’s just
that you have to wonder, is one of these toys really a greater threat to
the community than what real live people do to each other every day?
/end
You don't understand? I will explain this to you. It is an attempt to
set up a legal challenge to Roe v Wade and Lawrence v Texas (the
sodomy case). The legal reasoning for both of those flows from
Griswold v CT (http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/149/). SCOTUS
ruled then that there are areas of our lives that are too private for
the government to interfere. They can't attack Roe directly so they
want to undermine it. If they can get the court to rule that the state
has the right to outlaw sex toys then they can go directly to the
privacy claim of Roe and Lawrence.
Those filthy, rotten sons of bitches! They need to relax, enjoy their
bodies and sex, instead of taking it away from the rest of us because
they're not allowed to do it themselves.
Hey! They're Christians. What else can you expect but amorality from
them?
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a cornucopia of splinters.
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25 Mar 2006 06:56:55 AM |
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:50:14 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <ttb922dlsort63tepaad93qreslrpuep26@4ax.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:59 -0500, wrote in
alt.atheism
[snip]
Those filthy, rotten sons of bitches! They need to relax, enjoy their
bodies and sex, instead of taking it away from the rest of us because
they're not allowed to do it themselves.
Hey! They're Christians. What else can you expect but amorality from
them?
How about MLK, what he also an amoral Christian?
--
Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
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25 Mar 2006 09:49:35 PM |
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:56:55 GMT, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:50:14 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <ttb922dlsort63tepaad93qreslrpuep26@4ax.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:59 -0500, wrote in
alt.atheism
[snip]
Those filthy, rotten sons of bitches! They need to relax, enjoy their
bodies and sex, instead of taking it away from the rest of us because
they're not allowed to do it themselves.
Hey! They're Christians. What else can you expect but amorality from
them?
How about MLK, what he also an amoral Christian?
There are always exceptions. I've known a few Christians whom were of
the highest integrity.
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a cornucopia of splinters.
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27 Mar 2006 07:56:32 AM |
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:49:35 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <qo3c22t3ma97e7tqoh17kmou5pf5i02q4o@4ax.com>
wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:56:55 GMT, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:50:14 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <ttb922dlsort63tepaad93qreslrpuep26@4ax.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:59 -0500, wrote in
alt.atheism
[snip]
Those filthy, rotten sons of bitches! They need to relax, enjoy their
bodies and sex, instead of taking it away from the rest of us because
they're not allowed to do it themselves.
Hey! They're Christians. What else can you expect but amorality from
them?
How about MLK, what he also an amoral Christian?
There are always exceptions. I've known a few Christians whom were of
the highest integrity.
I bet even some of your best friends are Christian, right?
--
Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
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27 Mar 2006 11:47:17 AM |
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:56:32 GMT, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:49:35 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <qo3c22t3ma97e7tqoh17kmou5pf5i02q4o@4ax.com>
wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:56:55 GMT, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote in alt.atheism
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:50:14 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <ttb922dlsort63tepaad93qreslrpuep26@4ax.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:59 -0500, wrote in
alt.atheism
[snip]
Those filthy, rotten sons of bitches! They need to relax, enjoy their
bodies and sex, instead of taking it away from the rest of us because
they're not allowed to do it themselves.
Hey! They're Christians. What else can you expect but amorality from
them?
How about MLK, what he also an amoral Christian?
There are always exceptions. I've known a few Christians whom were of
the highest integrity.
I bet even some of your best friends are Christian, right?
That's possible. [shrug]
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a cornucopia of splinters.
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25 Mar 2006 02:11:09 PM |
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:56:55 GMT, in alt.atheism , Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> in
<uefa22lsrqk6m4aq5a1go06tlkre0sk7fa@4ax.com> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:50:14 -0800, in alt.atheism , stoney
<stoney@the.net> in <ttb922dlsort63tepaad93qreslrpuep26@4ax.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:59 -0500, wrote in
alt.atheism
[snip]
Those filthy, rotten sons of bitches! They need to relax, enjoy their
bodies and sex, instead of taking it away from the rest of us because
they're not allowed to do it themselves.
Hey! They're Christians. What else can you expect but amorality from
them?
How about MLK, what he also an amoral Christian?
How about Jimmy Carter?
Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease - New York Times
"Now, thanks to a relentless 20-year campaign led by former President
Jimmy Carter, Guinea worm is poised to become the first disease since
smallpox to be pushed into oblivion. Fewer than 12,000 cases were
found last year, down from 3 million in 1986."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/international/africa/26worm.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=5851475b059fc8ea&hp&ex=1143349200&partner=homepage
--
Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
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22 Mar 2006 07:38:14 AM |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> in news
message <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
[----]
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
They would really like to prohibit the distribution of any type of
birth control: pills, condoms, IUDs, morning after pills, and quite
possibly surgical sterilization, not to mention abortion.
I don’t mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people,
but I just don’t get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this
law. We’re talking about adults here. It’s not that I really care
about ensuring that these toys are ready accessible. Really. It’s just
that you have to wonder, is one of these toys really a greater threat to
the community than what real live people do to each other every day?
They feel they have a right to control their citizens sexuality and
decisions surrounding their most intimate activities, and are working
toward that end.
Überwench #658 Now a *real* atheist!
Dame Liz the Undaunted Ath.D BAAWA
Charter Member of SMASH
and Queen of the known universe
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24 Mar 2006 08:52:35 PM |
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:38:14 GMT, Liz <ehuth1@donotspam.com> wrote in
alt.atheism
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> in news
message <nb81229u9h0ud15damu7fh7jknhnrpupse@4ax.com> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
[----]
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
They would really like to prohibit the distribution of any type of
birth control: pills, condoms, IUDs, morning after pills, and quite
possibly surgical sterilization, not to mention abortion.
I know. After that will come the gulags, slave farms, chain gangs,
re-education centres, and execution chambers.
I don’t mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people,
but I just don’t get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this
law. We’re talking about adults here. It’s not that I really care
about ensuring that these toys are ready accessible. Really. It’s just
that you have to wonder, is one of these toys really a greater threat to
the community than what real live people do to each other every day?
They feel they have a right to control their citizens sexuality and
decisions surrounding their most intimate activities, and are working
toward that end.
They've got a 'right' to meet a shotgun blast from folks who aren't
going to put up with their *****.
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a cornucopia of splinters.
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
<snip>
Just another stride in the religious takeover of the USA.
Sunyata
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<Sunyata@wastherain.net> wrote in message
news:1qh3225gqvts0aj0m330f52ao87jdpr5a3@4ax.com...
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
. March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians' right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
"A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so."
<snip>
Just another stride in the religious takeover of the USA.
Sunyata
I'd like to see them try that sort of crap in New Jersey :P
--
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
Atheist ***** Extraordinaire
#1557
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:54:43 -0500, in alt.atheism ,
Sunyata@wastherain.net in <1qh3225gqvts0aj0m330f52ao87jdpr5a3@4ax.com>
wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
<snip>
Just another stride in the religious takeover of the USA.
Actually it is an attempt to return to a previous state, not
necessarily to advance beyond that.
--
Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
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22 Mar 2006 04:48:52 PM |
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:33:12 GMT, Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:54:43 -0500, in alt.atheism ,
Sunyata@wastherain.net in <1qh3225gqvts0aj0m330f52ao87jdpr5a3@4ax.com>
wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
<snip>
Just another stride in the religious takeover of the USA.
Actually it is an attempt to return to a previous state, not
necessarily to advance beyond that.
Which state would that be? 16th century religious colonies?
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22 Mar 2006 05:51:12 PM |
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:48:52 GMT, in alt.atheism , AZ Nomad
<aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> in
<slrne23l6i.mhs.aznomad@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:33:12 GMT, Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:54:43 -0500, in alt.atheism ,
Sunyata@wastherain.net in <1qh3225gqvts0aj0m330f52ao87jdpr5a3@4ax.com>
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being
fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by
the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of
certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week,
another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find
companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will
stand.
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices
when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person
any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily
for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or
possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
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Just another stride in the religious takeover of the USA.
Actually it is an attempt to return to a previous state, not
necessarily to advance beyond that.
Which state would that be? 16th century religious colonies?
Pre-Griswold, for example. Try the 1950s.
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Matt Silberstein
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| User: "Phillip Brown" |
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| Title: Re: Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams) {Damned Superstitious inbred pig ignorance} |
22 Mar 2006 07:08:34 PM |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
[snip]
/end
Mississippians should expect to pay more for carrots, zucchinis, cucumbers
etc as demand goes through the roof.
phillip brown
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams) {Damned Superstitious inbred pig ignorance} |
23 Mar 2006 10:59:14 AM |
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"Phillip Brown" <phillipbrownau@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.03.23.01.08.34.109616@netscape.net...
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:01:34 -0800, stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
. March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET
Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)
[snip]
/end
Mississippians should expect to pay more for carrots, zucchinis, cucumbers
etc as demand goes through the roof.
Yeah, but those don't vibrate ;)
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
Atheist ***** Extraordinaire
#1557
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| User: "Brian E. Clark" |
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| Title: Re: Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams) {Damned Superstitious inbred pig ignorance} |
23 Mar 2006 11:31:51 AM |
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In article <48g2avFjq7drU1@individual.net>, Robibnikoff said...
Mississippians should expect to pay more for carrots, zucchinis, cucumbers
etc as demand goes through the roof.
Yeah, but those don't vibrate ;)
They do if you don't spray them for worms and grubs. ;-)
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Brian E. Clark
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams) {Damned Superstitious inbred pig ignorance} |
23 Mar 2006 01:14:04 PM |
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"Brian E. Clark" <reply@newsgroup.only.please> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e8ca5975428528d989c16@newsgroups.comcast.net...
In article <48g2avFjq7drU1@individual.net>, Robibnikoff said...
Mississippians should expect to pay more for carrots, zucchinis,
cucumbers
etc as demand goes through the roof.
Yeah, but those don't vibrate ;)
They do if you don't spray them for worms and grubs. ;-)
ACK!!!!
That's nasty, baby! ;)
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
Atheist ***** Extraordinaire
#1557
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