If you want to know how backwards most law-makers are when it comes to the Constitution, look no further than this tidbit from South Carolina...
COLUMBIA, S.C. --
Exotic dancers would have to stay six feet from strip club customers and those businesses would have to close at midnight under a bill being considered by House lawmakers.
Scott Bergthold is a Tennessee-based lawyer who told a House subcommittee on Thursday that late operating hours for strip clubs creates more crime and problems for police.
Bergthold says stripper dances may be protected by courts, but not when they touch customers, which is commonly known as a lap dance.
He says there's no constitutional right to lap dances.
What a puritanical, ignorant moron! There's no constitutional basis on which to ban lap dances either, which means they're legal. Clearly this dolt hasn't read the Constitution. If he had, he would know that it limits the scope and power of the federal government, not the individual. Sure, lap dances can be regulated, but only because they tend to occur in places of business where liquor is being sold. If somebody's wife or girlfriend wanted to perform a lap dance somewhere else, there is no law stating that they cannot, unless it violates laws prohibiting lewd, public behavior. And even then, what qualifies as "lewd"?
No, this hand-wringing do-gooder is trying to get rid of adult businesses by regulating them to the point that they just quit. Have all the other problems in South Carolina been solved that he has time to waste legislating morality by forcing free citizens to conform to his world view? I'll bet if somebody looked at this guy a little closer, we'd find that guilt and self-loathing about his adult-entertainment fetish compels him to rid the world of temptation....exactly like Eliot Spitzer.
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There is no constitutional right to alot of things. No right to cell phones, no right to own a car, no right to own land, no right to eat out at restaurants on Thursdays between the hours of 7 and 9 p.m. I mean, if the government tries to regulate our lives by seeing what isn't in the constitution, and then telling us we have no right to it, then the constitution, our country, has lost its original purpose. Our money goes to waste the minute the government attempts to take away the liberties we as Americans want. I'm not saying I want a lap dance, but many Americans do, and who is to say they can't have them. That bill to be passed in South Carolina is actually attempting to tell a business what hours it can operate.
I don't know about the rest of America, but I certainly don't want to be told what is morally wrong and right. If I am not harming anyone, there should be nothing wrong with lap dances. And don't say the bill is for the strippers, because if they didn't want to get hurt, they would not have become strippers.
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