A federal judge once again ruled that Texas' ban on some drag performances in public is "facially overbroad" and "unconstitutionally vague."

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[–] 24 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

The law, Senate Bill 12, bans bars and other businesses from hosting sexually oriented performances

Vague, indeed.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Does Texas not have strip clubs?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (1 child)

    Hey hey hey now. This is about Texas and the United States so get that fuckin logic right the fuck out of here.

    In all seriousness though the state of a nation's laws is a direct measure of it's stability and we're at like 17/7 on the fully cooked scale.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Laws are only real if people are punished for them. The perfect law results is 100% of actual offenders being prosecuted and convicted.

    Unfortunately the US is incredibly hypocritical and most laws exist to uphold white male Christian land owner values, so the perfect law is more like "one with enough plausible deniability that a white guy can get away with it while a black perdon goes to jail for 10-15 years"

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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Are drag shows sexually oriented?

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  • [–] 12 points 10 hours ago

    My parents took me as a teen and my child siblings to a drag performance once.

    There was definitely a “sexual” nature to it. But nothing i hadn’t seen literally everywhere else in the performance industry from pop stars to circuses, even cartoons, many commercials. Sex appeal is and always has been everywhere.

    They just looked like generic women dancers to me. Mildly interesting, mildly boring.

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  • [–] 12 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Well strippers would be the first to go.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago*

    Quite the opposite. In my neck of the woods (the Bible Belt), there are tons of porn shops. They’ll just be going after the “wrong kinds” of porn and sexual exploitation.

    “Porn should be only between a man and a woman, to be shared within the bounds of a loving, God-sanctioned Christian marriage where birth control is forbidden, anything other than vaginal sex is punishable by law and pulling out is banned.”

    Their blockbuster porn hit will be, “Jesus, I can feel you inside me.”

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