Re: So Much for Free Press

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 16:01:33 MDT


--- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 06:54 pm, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > Frankly I am shocked that it turns out that I am on the more
> > liberal end of the debate than Harvey.
>
> Yes, it's quite disturbing to both of us! :-)

Ah, well then, I'm not alone.

>
> > The concept of "indecent exposure" as a
> > crime is as much a legislation of morality as legislation declaring
> > sodomy to be a crime. I know that Harvey is against the latter
> being
> > illegal, but why id he for the former, an act which most people
> would
> > consider to be a less serious act. I had no idea Harvey was a
> > clothes prude.
> > If a woman can't walk down the street with her shirt off, how do
> > you ever expect to get equal rights for gays?
>
> I am not against public nudity. But performing lewd and lascivious
> acts in the presence of people who object is initiation of force. If

> this were in a common public area, you might argue differently.
> But these
> people deliberately went into the church and performed this stunt to
> annoy and get a response from the churchgoers.

Ah, but does it serve liberty to annoy and get a response from the
churchgoers? Imagine an extropic-Hebrew version of this: going into a
Christian Identity Church meeting and playing a round of Hako Sot....
you would certainly annoy and get a response from the 'churchgoers'.

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