vision2020
Re: Don't make us call you chicken: take the public debate challenge!
Chicken? Maybe just bored. Your shallow and utilitarian notions of equality
are getting tiresome. Saying that men and women are equal in the manner you
do is like saying that the saprano and the tenor parts are equal. Of course,
there is always some fool who sees two different things and wants to say
that one is better. But to respond by asserting that they are just the same
is to answer the fool according to his folly and consequently be just like
him.
In the real world, men and women are free to be men and women, masculine and
feminine, interacting with each other in the harmonic and mutually enriching
way that God intended. Men and women are different, radically so. A real,
rich culture recognizes, celebrates and protects the differences and the
interaction. Saying that women should be able to do everything men do
completely misses the point, and squishes both men and women into an
amorphous mold that gives freedom, equality and justice to neither.
Please, stop trying to oppress us with your narrow and confining vision of
equality. We prefer the freedom of true sexual diversity.
Gregory C. Dickison
Lawyer & Counselor at Law
Post Office Box 8846
312 South Main Street
Moscow, Idaho 83843
(208) 882-4009
----- Original Message -----
From: "Muscovites for Equal Rights" <idahomer@hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 2:18 PM
Subject: Don't make us call you chicken: take the public debate challenge!
> We are still looking for someone to debate and tell us why this ordinance
is
> necessary.
>
> Part of the Civil Rights Celebration will be devoted to educating the
public
> about Moscow's new nudity ordinance. In order to provide even coverage,
we
> are challenging those who support the ordinance to a public debate.
> An hour or so during the Celebration will be devoted to this debate.
> Participants will appear on the stage in East City Park and will be
> moderated by a neutral person. Participants will follow time guidelines
set
> by the moderator.
> So, we are looking for someone who wants to take this challenge. Let the
> public know why you think this ordinance is necessary for Moscow.
> We are also looking for a moderator.
> Please respond if interested.
>
> Muscovites for Equal Rights is organizing a Civil Rights Celebration to be
> held in East City Park in Moscow on Saturday 9/7 from 11 to 7pm. The
intent
> of the Celebration is to recognize the freedoms of Americans and promote
the
> expansion of freedoms to those repressed. Equal rights to all will be a
> theme, highlighted by the campaign to rescind Moscow's nudity ordinance.
>
> Mark Rounds (folk), Lisa Simpson (folk), The Sauce (funk/ jazz fusion) and
> Galactic Tofu Farmers (psycho-electric groove food) will provide music.
> Speakers, games, skits, a fashion show featuring newly "illegal" attire,
and
> petitions to put the ordinance to a public vote will tie the Celebration
> together.
>
> You can walk with the Wild Thang, the Clearwater Country's own Dragon,
from
> the Farmers' Market at Friendship Square up to the park at around noon.
>
> In July, Moscow's City Council approved Ordinance 2002-13, which makes it
> illegal for a woman to expose her nipples, sides or bottoms of her breasts
> to public view. Public view includes private property if a woman can be
seen
> from a public space. Many bathing suits, some sleeveless blouses, low cut
> dresses, and other garments now violate the law. It also bans exposure of
> the division between the buttocks for both sexes.
> The fine is up to $500, or 6 months in jail.
> MER believes the ordinance is sexist and unconstitutional and suppresses
the
> rights of women in order to prevent another person from feeling a certain
> way.
> MER is committed to upholding the 14th amendment's guarantee of equal
> protection under the law for all citizens.
> MER has started a petition drive to put the ordinance to a public vote.
2300
> signatures of registered voters in the city of Moscow must be collected by
> September 24.
> Call 883-7965 or email idahomer@hotmail.com for more information, to
> co-sponsor as a business or group, or to help organize or be part of the
> celebration.
> Please forward and spread the word.
> Garrett Clevenger
>
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