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Nude
Adult Entertainment under Fire
by
George Baumler
The Louisville Board of Alderman, the self appointed keepers of
morality, have seen fit to try to regulate what can transpire on a theater
stage and even the exact distance patrons can be to the stage or
performers. The audience and
performers, all of legal voting age, are under no coercion to enter
establishments that offer such entertainment or perform in them.
Many citizens are offended by the nude entertainment business and
will stop at nothing to end it. The
Board of Aldermen, not ones to pass up an opportunity to pander to such a
large active voting bloc, have seen fit to attempt to regulate the adult
entertainment businesses in Louisville out of business.
The new regulations are sure to be challenged in court for
violating 1st amendment protections.
The adult entertainment business may not be everyone’s cup of
tea, but in a free society one should have the right to choose the form of
entertainment he or she wishes, as long as the rights of others are not
violated and no coercion is involved.
The Board of Aldermen could take a page from the gun-banners’
playbook and consider an adult entertainment paraphernalia “buy back”
program. Items such as
pasties and brass poles could be “bought back” to cut down on the
props used in such entertainment. Perhaps
breast enhancement surgery for women or hair lightening products could be
outlawed, thus crippling the adult entertainment business. Maybe the patrons could be forced to register or obtain
licenses to view this sort of entertainment.
Waiting periods and background checks are other tools that the
Board could employ to curb the escalating patronage to such dens of
immorality. At least a
paramilitary force could be formed to arrest unlicensed viewers or patrons
that get too close to the stage and seize all their worldly possessions.
Unsubstantiated and manipulated statistics could be quoted as
though they were gospel, thus justifying any measures, no matter the cost
to liberty.
The Board of Alderman should under no circumstances allow
individuals the option of making their own decisions.
Family and churches are obviously inadequate in their instruction
of morality; society needs the Board to help pave the way to heaven.
Perhaps taxes could be raised enough that every able bodied member
of a household work to pay taxes, ensuring that children are left in
daycare centers. Everyone knows daycare is the very best place to teach
children all they need to know about morality and that parents’
provincial views are a hindrance to their children’s development.
So, the Board should pander to those who wish to legislate
morality, rather than encouraging it and treat the symptoms, rather than
the cause of the disease. Destroy
the family and reap the rewards; then try to make laws to fix the damage.
In a truly Judeo-Christian society, such entertainment would go
bankrupt for lack of patrons, and rightfully so.
The way to salvation cannot be legislated or regulated.
A free society requires a high degree of tolerance of distasteful
behavior; a police state requires no such tolerance, only obedience to
government masters. The role
of government has grown from merely protecting rights, to encroach on
every aspect of citizens’ lives. The
Board is in step with those who believe in such regulation.
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