Ban Display of Lips and Tongues on Females! Bring the Veil to Moscow.

["Ted Moffett" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>]

EEvans et. al.

Clearly it would not be practical for the city council to table everything 
during the summer to wait for the U of I student population to return.  My 
point was simply that many people who are legal voters in Moscow were not 
here to engage in full discussion of this issue, so the claim that the 
ordinance truly represents the opinions of an accurate majority of the 
people in Moscow who it will apply to is a questionable claim.  Many 
students are on vacation and are not following the news.  Coverage of this 
issue has only been front page in the local media, and unless a student was 
informed of this issue by someone who is a local resident, they likely would 
not have been informed.  Anyways, the city council can pass an ordinance 
without a public vote either up or down, so they do not have to have proof 
of a majority approval of an ordinance to pass it.

Another relevant point is the constitutional protections given to 
minorities, even when there is a majority that wishes to restrict the 
minorities behavior.  If such constitutional protections against 
discrimination, which some have alleged applies in this case because the 
ordinance is only about female not male toplessness, then even if the city 
council got 20,000 letters approving the ordinance, it could still be deemed 
unlawful.

What if 99 % percent of Moscow decided to ban females showing their highly 
erotic lips and tongues in Moscow (french kissing is a highly erotic 
activity, don't you agree) but not
males lips and tongues?  The cry of discrimination would be heard loud and 
clear.

What is clear is that we are just legislating relativistic cultural norms.  
Some societies do not ban public display of the female breast, and are just 
as civilized and reasonable, maybe more so in some cases, than Moscow, 
Idaho.  We are not following objective standards about display of erotic 
parts of the female or male body.  Otherwise the highly erotic lips and 
tongues of females and males would be also banned!  I think a good case 
could be made that french kissing is more erotic, and that people who engage 
in this activity derive more pleasure from it, than the simple display of 
the female or male breast on a city street, park, etc.  Why assume the 
female breast is erotic when a female is sunbathing in the city park or 
swimming in the public pool?  This assumption strikes as coming from the 
mind of someone obsessed with breasts and their erotic implications!  And 
why let people with unhealthy sexual obsessions determine public policy?

I propose we pass an ordinance banning public displays of female tongues and 
lips or any activity involving these highly erotic parts of the female body. 
Lipstick on a female especially should be a punishable offence.  We must 
protect the children from this ruinous display of erotic body parts 
threatening to undermine the moral structure of our civilization!  Veil 
female faces in Moscow!

I'm certain that a large percentage of the U of I student population
has not yet heard about the topless controversy.  Many are having fun on 
summer vacation and are not following the news, and unless informed by 
someone from this area by some means, do not have a clue what has happened 
on this issue. Don't exaggerate how much news coverage this issue has 
received outside the Inland Northwest.
It has not been a headline story except in local media.

Ted

>From: eevans@moscow.com
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: Re: Thousands Not Represented!! Re: Who Are The Boobs?
>Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:31:20 GMT
>
> >
> > Visionaries:
> >
> > Democracy in the USA is currently, with the levels of participation in
> > voting and other civic spheres, only a minority activity, if we count 
>the
> > total number of possible legal participants against the actual number.
> > Therefore, from this analysis it can be concluded there are rarely if 
>ever
> > decisions made by any governmental entity in the USA that are truly an
> > expression of a full "majority" of the people affected.  This pathetic 
>and
> > sad rate of participation in what is often quite erroneously termed "the
> > world's greatest DEMOCRACY" is one of the tools often used by organized
> > minorities to push their agenda through.
>Tell me about it. My property taxes seem to go up every year.
>
><snip>
>
> > In the case of the input to the city council on the nudity ordinance, 
>there
> > are thousands of legal voters and residents of Moscow who are currently
> > absent from the area, whose voice was not heard on this issue.  The fact
> > that this ordinance was pushed through in the summer when we all know 
>most
> > of the student population is absent certainly pokes a hole in the 
>assertion
> > that the "majority" of Moscow residents
> > were represented.
>
>Doesn't this sneaky-summer tactic apply to ALL ordinances passed during the
>months the students are absent? Perhaps the city council should table
>everything until September?
>
>In any case, we made the (inter)national news on _this_ particular issue.
>Moscow residents all round the world had plenty of time to phone/(e-)
>mail/fax/carrier-pigeon whatever it was they wanted to say.
>
><snip>
>
>-Ed Evans
>
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