Miriam BooshMar 5, 2023

The KKK is legally allowed to meet and do their thing in the US, cause first amendment.

But drag queens aren't?

How do your laws work? Seriously, not rhetorical can someone explain?

#MakeItMakeSense

Show threadscunneen (he/him) 🚋

@Miriamm Just did some quick googling. The Supreme Court ruled in 1964 and 1973 that "obscenity" or "patently offensive hard core sexual conduct" is not protected by the first ammendment, so if this law is challenged in court, the bigots who passed it will argue that drag constitutes obscenity. They can point to a long tradition of bigoted laws banning cross-dressing, and the current far-right supreme court will probably agree with them.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1004/obscenity-and-pornography

Obscenity and Pornography

Obscenity refers to a narrow category of pornography that violates contemporary community standards and has no serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

Mar 6, 2023 at 8:46amWeb
Show threadscunneen (he/him) 🚋Mar 6, 2023
@Miriamm Meanwhile the KKK has nothing to do with sex, (neither does drag, but people think it does), it's just vile bigotry, which is fine under the first ammendment as long as it doesn't explicitly call for violence.
Show threadMiriam BooshMar 6, 2023
@scunneen thank you
Show threadNiels Nielsen, geographerMar 6, 2023
@scunneen @Miriamm
How come this not being obscene then?
Show threadMichaelMar 6, 2023
@scunneen @Miriamm Looking at these dudes makes me a little nauseous. It's a fine line between religion and cult, and these dudes look like poster-children for extremism and hypocrisy-- for one thing, those suits are obscene.