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To: The Ox who wrote (22141)	11/3/2004 6:23:42 PM
From: kodiak_bull	Respond to of 23153

Michael, <<There is also a very big difference in what a local community chooses as it's "community standards" and the federal government implementing a similar "national standard".>> Well, this would seem to be the problem. If Three Forks wants to have a clean downtown with family-oriented businesses and wants to keep the massage parlors and strip joints over by the railroad tracks, and they vote on it and approve it, why should a federal judge come in and say, well, Tommy's Topless Bar and Squeegee Club can not be zoned out of downtown on free speech reasons. As for morality, again, you can't legislate that, anymore than you could legislate honor, respectability or kindness. As a self-governing people, though, it's at our basic sense of order to legislate activity. Naked bodies? I'm all for them (I've got one somewhere underneath all this clothing). I'm happy to see them on display, in accordance with community values, democratic legislation as to time and place restrictions. Kb