In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a new city ordinance targeting public homosexuality is hitting libraries. "When in History have the ones banning books been the good guys," says local activist.

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In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a new city ordinance targeting public homosexuality is hitting libraries. “When in History have the ones banning books been the good guys,” says local activist.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    11 months ago

    LOL, this is begging for a test case. The whole thing’ll get shot down long before that, but I’d still love to see it.

    Hell OP, I’ll hold your hand, maybe even slip you some tongue if that what it takes to get this thing in court.

    DISCLAIMER: I’m a 52-yo male, not bad looking, you may like it. Hell, I might like it. But we must make sacrifices.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
      17·
      11 months ago

      Hell OP, I’ll hold your hand, maybe even slip you some tongue if that what it takes to get this thing in court.

      Don’t waste your time, you don’t need to do that anymore. You just need to say that you saw a hypothetical person do this and it would hypothetically upset you and the supreme court will give you standing and ban same sex hand holding as that might lead to sex.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 months ago

      Sounds like a good reason for a bunch of tourists to descend on the town and hold an impromptu pride parade.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      5·
      11 months ago

      But we must make sacrifices.

      As I recall, the Scopes trial was exactly one of these. An issue brought to challenge a law. Wait, found it:

      The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself deliberately so the case could have a defendant.[2][3]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial