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LANSING (WWJ) Michigan Senator Rick Jones is introducing legislation that would bar nude dancing at alcohol-serving bars and clubs. This follows a naked performance by dancers at a Lansing gay bar.
Jones says having places that have nude dancing is against the whole Pure Michigan theme.
We spend millions of dollars saying this is pure Michigan where you should bring your family for vacation. Not Michigan with nudie bars, said Jones.
I dont want these popping up on every corner, said Jones. I think it could happen to every city if we dont put a stop to it.
Theres a bar in Lansing that found a little loophole in the law and started it, he said. So Im working with the attorney general to craft legislation that is constitutional to take care of this problem. Now I dont believe that the founding fathers when they were talking about freedom of speech meant nude dancing in bars.
Last year a Federal judge ruled that Michigans liquor control laws related to nudity were unconstitutional because it violated First Amendment rights.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/11/18/nude-dancing-at-clubs-not-in-line-with-pure-michigan-theme-says-michigan-senator/
Nope; not the Onion
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)flying rabbit
(4,623 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Not sure if he's thought this through.
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polichick
(37,152 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)CFLDem
(2,083 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Nothing else to do?
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Even the cats and dogs were naked as a jaybird. I, for one, refuse to live among such filth.
LiberalFighter
(50,767 posts)He is pure stupid!
jayfish
(10,037 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Xithras
(16,191 posts)This guy may want to look up the definition of "Bawdy Houses". They not only operated openly and within the bounds of the law in the mid 1700's, but they were present in every major colonial city from New England to the Atlanta. Heck, Philadelphia...the spiritual "home" where America itself was founded, was known as "Sin City" long before Vegas was a glimmer in the mobs eye, primarily because it had so many bawdy houses and brothels.
You could find naked women in any of them.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,315 posts)... that seeks to draw visitors.
There is, as yet, no requirement that all tourists have to visit any club with nude dancing.
If Senator Rick Jones did not appreciate the dancers at the gay bar in Lansing, he doesn't have to go there again. Unless, of course, his campaign contributors take him there. Then he has no choice.
He's right, the founding fathers never thought about nude bars in Michigan. They probably never thought about Michigan at all, except that there was a vast unknown wilderness west of Pennsylvania.
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)then they condemn laws that either protect people and property and liberty.
Oh and I bet he thinks that guns in bars are a good thing.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)BeeBee
(1,074 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Botany
(70,442 posts)I admit nudie bars and strip joints are a blight on a neighborhood and should be limited
but they are real easy to stay out of ..... BTW now just how did Michigan Senator Rick Jones
find this gay bar with nude dancing?
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)Botany
(70,442 posts)as a straight man I have found not having to have sex w/men pretty
damn simple ...... although some of my best friends are gay or lesbians.
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)preoccupied with other peoples sexual activities, relationships and the like. Some, judge an entire persons being on their sex and/or sexual orientation. I find it quite bizarre, they are fixated on the 7th grade playground. For others, I think it's another form of bullying, and for others, they just have to have someone/group to hate.
Often in my unscientific observations, it often seems those most vocal have some real sexual identify problems, so they have to strike out to calm their internal insecurities.
As I've told some, often it does not matter who you are, what you do, etc., about 50% of the world is going to hate you for some nefarious reason.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,817 posts)Botany
(70,442 posts)and 8 hours later and with his credit card @ it's limit and after getting a private shower
and rub down from Mr. Chaz ($500 cash) he knew he had to put a stop to all that nasty
stuff.
The older I get and the more I hear from some dude complaining about "the gays" the more
I think that man has some sort of same sex attraction.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Emelina
(188 posts)The military, a big box store or nude dancing. What a choice for the class of 2013.
surrealAmerican
(11,357 posts)Is the main purpose of your state to be a tourist destination?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)When a man could take his family to an alcohol-serving bars and clubs and not worry about nude strippers?
Danascot
(4,689 posts)to not patronize nude clubs they'd all go out of business.
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,710 posts)I wasn't expecting that.
AndyA
(16,993 posts)With the governor appointing City Managers to fleece the taxpayers of property that belongs to them, paid for with taxpayer money.
But let's ignore that, let's focus on the nude dancing at bars, that's truly offensive.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)... nor was I aware they were a problem