In Alabama: Sell Guns, Not Dildoes!

Here’s one for the “stranger than fiction” department: Stand on any street corner in Alabama selling guns and dildoes, and guess which one can land you in jail for a year? You got it: Those deadly dildoes!

In a unanimous decision, the three judges of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on February 16th upheld a 1998 Alabama statute that outlaws the sale of devices used to stimulate human genitals. Instruments to blow out someone’s brains are perfectly fine. Sounds about right for a state with a rich history of slavery, lynchings and beatings of civil rights activists.

Here’s the clincher. According to the court and the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, it’s all about morality. Wrote the judges: “States have traditionally had the authority to regulate commercial activity they deem harmful to the public.” How is selling dildoes to adults “harmful to the public?”


Source, and full article: Beyond Chron, February 21, 2007

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Yes, we're talking about a Court that is only one notch below the United States Supreme Court! Yes, the 11th Circuit FEDERAL Court Of Appeals. You know, one of the many FEDERAL Courts stuffed with Reagan/Bu$h I/Bu$h II appointees. Still think the Federal Courts are going to bail your chestnuts out of the fascist fire?

You can read the whole sorry decision HERE.

TLC