i doubt that this is constitutional

Even if it is constitutional, which I would think its easily arguable not to be, it's rather stupid and unenforceable. Rather like the cellphone bans in cars when so many people have bluetooth and in car voice systems.
 
Middleborough, a town of about 20,000 residents perhaps best known for its rich cranberry bogs, has had a bylaw against public profanity since 1968.

But because that bylaw essentially makes cursing a crime, it has rarely if ever been enforced, officials said, because it simply would not merit the time and expense to pursue a case through the courts.


The ordinance would decriminalize public profanity, allowing police to write tickets as they would for a traffic violation.

It would also decriminalize certain types of disorderly conduct, public drinking and marijuana use, and dumping snow on a roadway.


http://news.yahoo.com/mass-town-oks-20-fines-swearing-public-033025166.html

This is the kind of thing social conservatives waste their time on.

It's hilarious that the people who make a practice of beating their breasts about "constitutionality" are willing to overlook measures like this.
 
I don't get what the big deal is. A lot of struggling cities are trying to revitalize trendy downtown sections, and the last thing they need to draw patrons, is a bunch of foul-mouth punks making the environment unpleasant with their incessant cursing. Citizens have every right to demand decency in public, when the hell did we abandon that?

Don, please tell me that you and the left have some greater cause to defend, because this is pathetic. It's not about the First Amendment. The First Amendment was never intended to allow people to use whatever profane language they please without regard for who hears it. That's precisely why we have movie ratings! We don't let 6 year olds and 8 year olds into movies that use the word "fuck" because they don't know what that means. We protect them from exposure to this sort of thing, we don't stand on our soapbox and defend people's "right" to do it!

What's amazing is, this is coming from YOU, Don! After all the grief you've given me for my language here, not in public, but on a private message board!
 
So the traitor-and-treason-admirer Dixie doesn't believe in the First Amendment to the Constitution?
 
Rune said:
Dixie is a "conservative".
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And a Confederate apologist.

Do you think that's why he finds the First Amendment to the Constitution of the victorious United States of America (the Union) so contemptible?
 
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And a Confederate apologist.

Do you think that's why he finds the First Amendment to the Constitution of the victorious United States of America (the Union) so contemptible?
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Social conservatives certainly find the constitution contempible, elsewise why would they continually try to trample it?
 
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