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Kansas asks community to set local standards for obscenity

July 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I want to propose a petition to Save Sex in Kansas, after reading this:

Kansas.com | 07/16/2007 | Grand juries to determine what’s obscene
OLATHE, Kan. – Separate grand jury investigations in two Kansas counties are expected to decide what’s too obscene for businesses to sell.

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In the next several weeks, the jurors could decide what is and what isn’t obscene, setting standards for their Kansas communities. The jurors could be asked to watch adult videos, review adult toys, or even take field trips to the businesses.

“We don’t know yet what they’re going to want to see,” said Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome Gorman. “Each community has to answer for itself what it will tolerate.”

The petitions in the six counties, including Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass on the Missouri side and Johnson and Wyandotte in Kansas, ask the courts to look at strip clubs, sex shops and video rental stores.

Honestly, National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families, I wish you’d look at things that cause real harm to children. Drug abuse. Improperly stored guns. Homelessness. Starvation. Gang mentality. Somehow I don’t think adult products in adults-only shops are all that harmful to children. Leave everyone else’s sex lives alone; don’t you realize that the stronger you protest, the more you reveal about yourselves? You’re so afraid and so threatened and we understand that — but quit taking it out on the rest of us.

We’re not fooled, y’know. We can tell you’re not God. You’re a Christian organization ignoring Jesus’ message to love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, cast no stones and let God do all the judging, and you’re interested only in power and control which are pretty much the antithesis of Christ’s teachings.

Bah.

Kansas communities, it’s up to you: are you going to let NCPCF get this toehold in your bedroom? Or are you going to laugh at the very idea, and set a community standard of “I’ll make my own sexual decisions, thanks”?

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 chiraven // Jul 25, 2007 at 10:24 pm

    Kansas. Kansas. Wasn’t that the state whose board of education ruling on the teaching of biology led to the revelation of the new religion of Pastafarianism?

    Strange. Somehow I never used to associate Kansas with this sort of silliness. Oh well, live and learn. Maybe the good people of Kansas WILL, as you suggest Regina, come to their senses and demand that their elected officials behave in a rational fashion. But somehow I doubt it.

  • 2 Peregrine // Jul 26, 2007 at 4:51 am

    So they want to use taxpayer money to pay a bunch of jurors to watch adult movies and review sex toys?

    Talk about your cushy government jobs. I’d gladly volunteer for that jury. Too bad I don’t live on Kansas.

  • 3 regina lynn // Jul 26, 2007 at 7:53 am

    It’s like the only way those folks *get* to watch porn or touch sex toys is if they are “researching” to condemn it for other people.

    What are they so afraid of?