Maryland about to lose it's nuts?
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Novus Collectus
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One person's public indecency is another's everyday sight on the farm their children see on the way to feed the livestock.Mike, you don't friggin' learn, do you?
I think it's public indecency, just like putting porno magazines out where minors can get to them. IMO, the state shouldn't have to pass a new law - the existing indecency law should cover it just fine. The problem is that the lawmakers are such a bunch of wussies who listen to kooks like...well, like some of you all...and take said kooks seriously when they should just say, "Aren't you cute?atpat: But, no, sorry - we don't put genitalia on our vehicles.
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The truth is that this is covered under freedom of speech anyway and any law against the display of the balls on obscenity grounds would be ruled moot.
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RadioPatrol
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I saw some guy ( rainbow sticker in the truck back window ) with an erect male member sticking straight out of the Class III Hitch on his truck ............ in rush hour traffic headed in to DC on 295 yrs ago ........
INHO
balls are tacky .......
but sex organs are
well inappropriate at best vulgar at best
Pete
Repete
I think the difference here is a sack of nuts swinging under a bull are "standard equipment" whereas a pair of plastic balls complete with bulging veins under a Dodge are not.
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RadioPatrol
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Thats the problem, not too many morals anymore BCP .... its a religious thing and everyone gets their panties in a twist when you mention having Morals
maybe common decency above the 6th grade level ............ which i think most guys sporting a sack hanging from the receiver hitch on the truck is lacking - common decency or morals
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MMDad
Lem Putt
Obscenity is not protected speech. Just ask Diane Keaton and GMA.
That's ridiculous. So is public nudity covered under "free speech" as well? How about public sex acts?
THIS, Collectus, is why we have to have so many damn laws - because of tards like you.
Mikeinsmd
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Negative.
That's why Howard Stern was paid F. U. money by Sirius.
That's why you don't see billboards with penis & vagina plastered all over them.
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RadioPatrol
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That's ridiculous. So is public nudity covered under "free speech" as well? How about public sex acts?
THIS, Collectus, is why we have to have so many damn laws - because of tards like you.
well @ the Folsom St Fair the queers get to pretty much do what they want .......... but in MSA - it would be considered indecency
Novus Collectus
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But it doesn't pass the test for indecency.
Pete
Repete
Don't confuse "lack of enforcement" with "legality".
Novus Collectus
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Public nudity is different because it is the human body. The Venus Demilo is not illegal and neither are the bare breasted women in the Sisteen (sp?) Chapel and their copies in the US.That's ridiculous. So is public nudity covered under "free speech" as well? How about public sex acts?
THIS, Collectus, is why we have to have so many damn laws - because of tards like you.
Schools take kids to art museums all the time, but no one covers up the Greek nude men statues now do they?
Public sex acts and portrayals of public sex acts may fail the test for public indecency, but depicting body parts alone does not.
The reason we have the First Amendment is to prevent people like you from telling everyone else what to think or what they can say. When you start banning something you personally find offensive, then all of a sudden you can ban what ever the hell you want including saying something bad about Ghooliani in public.
Our Founding Fathers would be appaled at some of the stuff panties in a wad people want to ban today.
Novus Collectus
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Negative.
That's why Howard Stern was paid F. U. money by Sirius.
That's why you don't see billboards with penis & vagina plastered all over them.
This has been addressed in the courts in the context of the "1-800-eat Sh!t" bumper stickers. This is free speech.
Pete
Repete
I am pretty sure George Washington had the nuts removed from his ride.
MMDad
Lem Putt
Maryland law:
(i) less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or
This could be used to prosecute if it was desired.
The only defense would be if these were supposed to be bull testicles, not human. Then there is nothing prohibiting the display.
Actually, it probably never occurred to them that some redneck would want to hang balls on his vehicle, then insist it is protected by the First Amendment.
One is art; the other is for prurient gratification. It would take a special kind of tard to make the case that balls hanging off a truck bumper is art.
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Novus Collectus
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Uh, when they were riding in their carts behind the ox pulling it, I have a feeling they were well used to seeing huge swinging meaty balls in front of them on their own vehicle.
And here is where you have a problem with your argument. How is hanging balls for gratification? Please don't say that some people will get off on seeing them because people can get off on seeing anything. Some people get off on seeing stuffed animals for instance (plushies), so anything can be claimed to be for sexual gratification by someone.
Second, we all know what some people call art nowadays can be absolutely anything they and one other person see as "art". Art is subjective and there are masterpieces out there that I think are trash, but just because I think they are trash does not mean someone else considers it art.
Third, free expression isn't just about art.
Fourth, it is not a just test of it being art to be protected free speech, rather it has to be proven to be indecent and this does NOT pass that test because it does not describe or depict the sexual act.....end of story.
You don't like the way our laws are, then move to a country that makes hanging balls illegal to be seen and doesn't have a First Amendment, or try and get the states to ratify an Amendment to repeal the First's protection of free speech. Until then your protests mean nothing.