This isn't just nudity. This is celebrating performing perversive sexual acts. Banning people from public streets is not going to happen.
Trying to ban people from public streets is what your crew is trying to do, because you are so easily offended.
This isn't just nudity. This is celebrating performing perversive sexual acts. Banning people from public streets is not going to happen.
What about the people that live and work on that street?
This has been ruled a first amendment exercise and is protected and legal, as long as participants don't engage in lewd activity. I guess they just found this new shiny object to focus on. How fucking stupid.
1st Amendment said:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Trying to ban people from public streets is what your crew is trying to do, because you are so easily offended.
Were they the children you were worried about, those folks that worked there?
People also live there. Yes. Some of them have children.
Again. Folks who didn't want to expose their children to the parade would ensure they were elsewhere. The solution that also allows these folks their constitutional rights is to expect a free people to choose to be elsewhere. Nobody was forced to watch this parade. I get that you are objecting, but were you there? Was your child affected? If the people who were there are not the ones objecting to their children being exposed to this, then we are hearing from the wrong people.
Let's say you were standing across the street, because for some reason you wanted to see this parade. You saw some parent who brought their kid to the parade, but they were not upset. You became upset "for them"... You then objected strenuously on this site. I would tell you that if you are not the parent of the child then you don't get to be offended in their behalf...
If, as we now see, you became offended but were not even there and just assumed that children were all over watching but not one of those parents objected, it is even worse.
It's okay to be offended, be offended... nothing at all happens to you because you were offended. It's not like, you get to say: "The other day I read about a parade with naked people in it, I was offended, then the next day I got AIDS!" or something like that. Because being offended doesn't cause death or damage...
Just don't expect me to jump into action to protect you from being offended.
Now, had you been innocently walking by unknowing that a parade of gay folks were about to pass by and your child saw a dick being helicoptered from a float... You may have something there.

Another thread whining and genuflecting over a harmless event. This isn't a pride event, so associating it with gay men is just more homophobia from the fucking knuckledragging morons on this forum.
This is a worldwide event that held in many cities in the US, Canada, and Europe. Stop whining for Gods sake. You look like an infant.
Did they shut down the parade route to ensure that the only people being exposed were there to see the parade. As far as I know it was a PUBLIC parade and not a private parade. It did turn into a PUBIC parade of privates.![]()
Again. Folks who didn't want to expose their children to the parade would ensure they were elsewhere. The solution that also allows these folks their constitutional rights is to expect a free people to choose to be elsewhere. Nobody was forced to watch this parade. I get that you are objecting, but were you there? Was your child affected? If the people who were there are not the ones objecting to their children being exposed to this, then we are hearing from the wrong people.
Let's say you were standing across the street, because for some reason you wanted to see this parade. You saw some parent who brought their kid to the parade, but they were not upset. You became upset "for them"... You then objected strenuously on this site. I would tell you that if you are not the parent of the child then you don't get to be offended in their behalf...
If, as we now see, you became offended but were not even there and just assumed that children were all over watching but not one of those parents objected, it is even worse.
It's okay to be offended, be offended... nothing at all happens to you because you were offended. It's not like, you get to say: "The other day I read about a parade with naked people in it, I was offended, then the next day I got AIDS!" or something like that. Because being offended doesn't cause death or damage...
Just don't expect me to jump into action to protect you from being offended.
Now, had you been innocently walking by unknowing that a parade of gay folks were about to pass by and your child saw a dick being helicoptered from a float... You may have something there.
Again. Folks who didn't want to expose their children to the parade would ensure they were elsewhere. The solution that also allows these folks their constitutional rights is to expect a free people to choose to be elsewhere. Nobody was forced to watch this parade. I get that you are objecting, but were you there? Was your child affected? If the people who were there are not the ones objecting to their children being exposed to this, then we are hearing from the wrong people.
Let's say you were standing across the street, because for some reason you wanted to see this parade. You saw some parent who brought their kid to the parade, but they were not upset. You became upset "for them"... You then objected strenuously on this site. I would tell you that if you are not the parent of the child then you don't get to be offended in their behalf...
If, as we now see, you became offended but were not even there and just assumed that children were all over watching but not one of those parents objected, it is even worse.
It's okay to be offended, be offended... nothing at all happens to you because you were offended. It's not like, you get to say: "The other day I read about a parade with naked people in it, I was offended, then the next day I got AIDS!" or something like that. Because being offended doesn't cause death or damage...
Just don't expect me to jump into action to protect you from being offended.
Now, had you been innocently walking by unknowing that a parade of gay folks were about to pass by and your child saw a dick being helicoptered from a float... You may have something there.