Posted on 08/24/2007 5:38:27 PM PDT by firebrand
A month after passing a temporary ban on public nudity, the Brattleboro Selectboard voted 3 to 2 on Tuesday to reject a proposed ordinance that would have made the ban permanent. When the temporary ordinance expires next month, public nudity will no longer be illegal. It is all about tolerance, one board member said. "We in this country are going down a slippery slope these days," said Dora Bouboulis, nothing a national paper recently published an article about the ordinance under the headline "Tolerant town gets intolerant."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The problem, as always, is that the people who would walk around nude are most likely the people who really shouldn’t.
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing -- with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973
“indecent exposure”
LARGE woman (or dynachrome) in a thong!
Isn’t it cold there?
And how are things in the nudist colony? Anyone making obscene gestures in front of children, or preaching that we can’t be saved? If so, who cares. Ho-hum. Another day in the world of human foibles. Better go to the science fiction writers fast, get ourselves straightened out here about what’s important.
Now full of hot and cold running liberals. They wrecked one of my favorite states.
Will it be acceptable to point at them and laugh?
Well, my personal experience from being an active member of various nudist colonies, the people you would like to see join, never do. The people you never want to see usually do.......
JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!
Let's just hope he doesn't start reading L. Ron Hubbard next.
Degeneration.
L. Ron Hubbard is widely rumored to have said "The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion." ...More here.One form of the rumor is that L. Ron Hubbard made a bar bet with Robert A. Heinlein. This is definitely not true. It's uncharacteristic of Heinlein, and there's no supporting evidence. There is, however, inconclusive evidence that Robert Heinlein suggested some parts of the original Dianetics.
Another variant is that Hubbard talked of starting a religion to avoid taxes. ...
Seems Lazarus Long had no problems porking his mother either.
I suppose you are cool with that too.
What will happen when photos start appearing on the internet? What will happen when people argue that it is indecent to publish photos of something that a state government deemed not indecent to be done in public?
What is the difference between real tangible "public" places vs. virtual internet "public" places?
Will photos of nudity in public in Vermont be allowed to be shown in Vermont newspapers and Vermont TV?
-PJ
Going down on a what?
Oh, never mind. I'm reminded of the limerick, in which the guy charged with indecent exposure had his charge dismissed due to insufficient evidence:
Whenever a fellow named Rex
Flashed his very small organ of sex,
He always got off,
For the judges would scoff:
De minimis non curat lex.*
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* The law does not concern itself with trifles.
I thought the whole idea of nudity was to accept the human body in all variations, not to be able to drool over just the great ones? ;)
I have a friend who’s lived in VT all her life. She says that for the most part, it’s a bunch of 20somethings that strip down and hang around storefronts and street corners in the raw. Some sit on benches or curbs and just read. Her exH was a bit disappointed apparently, the day they were there a few years ago (when this became ‘news’), it was mostly male nudes.
She says it was a great day for her, though!
I suppose you are cool with that too.
I cite one quote from Heinlein's work and you attempt to tar me with something totally unrelated? What kind of silliness is that?
How would you like it if I tried to tar you in the same way with this?
If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property. Exodus 21:20-21
To quote you, "I suppose you are cool with that too."
I'm not "cool with that" and I suspect you aren't either. Both "tarring" examples are silly. Try again, with reason and logic next time.
I like Vermont, but you are correct. It is extremely liberal now, almost like a giant Cambridge, Massachusetts.
My wife and I went up to St. Johnsbury (just for a drive...:) and we drove down a few roads so rural that I said to my wife “If I hear banjo music, we’re outta here...”
I saw more than one house with a sign that said something like “Take Back Vermont”.
Putting Heinlein and Scripture in the same comparison is somewhat troubling.
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