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26 Jan 2005 12:22:09 AM |
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OT: (sigh) Virginia Rethugnican Idiocy |
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-51961sy0jan24,0,5249569.story?coll=dp-news-local-final
More sex-related legislation under way
BY JOHN M.R. BULL AND HUGH LESSIG
(804) 225-7345
January 24 2005
RICHMOND -- The state General Assembly has at least one brain lobe
pondering sex.
A flurry of sex-related bills are making their way through various
committees. Some are offbeat. Some are serious.
No watching porn videos in your car if other motorists can see, says
Sen. Harry Blevins, R-Chesapeake.
No fondling yourself in public, even under your clothes, says Del.
Kathy Byron, R-Lynchburg. Stop it with the sex-related clubs in
schools, specifically the newly formed Harrison High's Gay and
Straight Alliance, says Del. Glenn Weatherholtz, R-Harrisonburg, who
wants to ban those clubs.
And pull your pants up, because we really don't need to see your
underwear, says Del. Algie T. Howell, D-Norfolk.
"If you were going to apply for a job, would you find this
appropriate?" Howell said. "I'm just trying to legislate some common
sense. It bothers me that my grandchildren have to see people walking
around holding their pants up with one hand."
His measure would fine an offender $50. The nasty flick in the car
would net a $250 fine, and the inappropriate-self-stimulation measure
would be considered indecent exposure, a misdemeanor punishable by
jail time.
Weatherholtz says his proposed ban on school sex clubs also is common
sense and protests that a school principal would allow such a group to
meet on school property.
"If you allow this, someone else will come in and want a heterosexual
club or a bestiality club, so where's the cut-off?" he said. "I've had
people from both sides of the aisle say they'd support it."
While these types of bills often reflect attempts by lawmakers to
improve the quality of life for constituents, it is an election year
and the entire House is up for re-election. No lawmaker relishes the
thought of obstructing such measures, which are likely to pass
swiftly.
"I think that legislators in Virginia tend to legislate from a
puritanical base, and it appeals to voters," said Kent Willis,
executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia.
"Put that together and you get sometimes meaningless, yet sometimes
harmful, laws that are hardly ever relevant."
The ACLU often opposes such sex-related bills as being either
discriminatory or an infringement on personal privacy.
Some of the sex-related bills introduced this session are quite
serious. Del. John Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake, has introduced a bill that
would ban the taking of so-called upskirt photos, a practice in which
men point a camera up women's skirts and take pictures or videos.
It's a pastime that has boomed in recent years, fueled by the Internet
and something that has been a particular problem along Virginia
Beach's oceanfront.
That bill was written at the request of a commonwealth's attorney in
Chesapeake who was irritated that harassment and other laws weren't
adequate to fully prosecute a man who took a camera into a store last
year and snapped upskirt photos in broad daylight, Cosgrove said.
"Current laws just weren't enough to get this dirtball," he said.
A serious attempt to modify the state constitution to include a ban on
same-sex marriage, a major issue in last year's presidential race, is
picking up steam in the General Assembly. Gay marriage is already
prohibited in Virginia, but it doesn't have the weight of the state
constitution behind it.
Copyright © 2005, Daily Press
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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