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Joe Knapp

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« on: March 30, 2000, 08:24:00 PM »
I found these news items interesting.
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The Supreme Court today limited some of nude dancing's freedom-of-expression protections, upholding an Erie, Pa., public decency ordinance requiring strippers to wear pasties and a G-string......
    Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, in a separate opinion by Scalia, voted to go further. They cited “the traditional power of government to foster good morals.”
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I am not at all for nude dancing, but I have to ask Who's morals are they fostering?
    All moral values come from rel. values or sometimes the lack of rel. values.

[ABCnews.com]

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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2000, 02:20:00 PM »
Here's another.
03/31/2000

By David Jackson and Nancy San Martin / The Dallas Morning News

The tug of war over Elián González isn't the first fight between the federal government and local residents, but it may be the most personal.

Trying to return the 6-year-old boy to his father in Cuba, Attorney General - and Miami native - Janet Reno is now reviled as a traitor by some of the anti-communism exiles who helped launch her career as Dade County's elected prosecutor. The personal nature of the international custody fight was evident in Ms. Reno's comments on Thursday.....
"The father must speak for the little boy, because the sacred bond between parent and child must be recognized and honored," Ms. Reno said.