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15 de Febrero, 2008
Defeating the Perverts
Categorized under Ley , Sexo | Tags: Alabama, putos, Texas
FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal appeals court has overturned a Texas statute outlawing sex toy sales, leaving Alabama as the state with the strictest ban on such devices.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote obscene devices, punishable by up to two years in jail, violated the Constitution's 14th Amendment on the right to privacy.
Companies that own Dreamer's and Le Rouge Boutique, which sell the devices in its Austin stores, and the retail distributor Adam & Eve, sued in Austin federal court in 2004 over the constitutionality of the law. They appealed after a federal judge dismissed the suit and said the constitution did not protect their right to publicly promote such devices.
In its decision Tuesday, the appeals court cited Lawrence and Garner v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 opinion that struck down bans on consensual sex between gay couples.
"Just as in Lawrence, the state here wants to use its laws to enforce a public moral code by restricting private intimate conduct," the appeals judges wrote. "The case is not about public sex. It is not about controlling commerce in sex. It is about controlling what people do in the privacy of their own homes because the state is morally opposed to a certain type of consensual private intimate conduct. This is an insufficient justification after Lawrence."
NOTHING IS MORE PERVERTED than people with gavels trying to tell you what you can use to get off with, or how, or with whom.
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Comentarios (5)
M dijo:
Oh, I don't know; I imagine you could do lots of fun kinky things with a gavel...
Wait, what?
Palabras por M spat forth on el 15 de Febrero, 2008 at 10:51 AM
nezua
dijo:
oh sure, miss law student. you only iMAGine.
Palabras por nezua
spat forth on el 15 de Febrero, 2008 at 06:17 PM
peasant dijo:
I can't get away from feeble attempts to caption your chosen picture. The officer's (I assume he is an officer) facial expression taxes my defining ability. Envy? Desire? Lust? Longing?...yeah, it has to be Longing, or maybe Schlonging.
Palabras por peasant spat forth on el 16 de Febrero, 2008 at 05:21 AM
nezua
dijo:
jaja!!! schlonging. by jove, that's it.
Palabras por nezua
spat forth on el 16 de Febrero, 2008 at 05:53 AM
peasant dijo:
finally....a feeble flash of inspiration..a caption
"Alas more Yoric, I knew him well"
Palabras por peasant spat forth on el 16 de Febrero, 2008 at 07:13 AM