And I thought the no-dancing town in the movie "Footloose" was fictional.......

[marmar]

:scared:


from the news source no fundie dominionist should be without, the American Family Assn.'s OneNewsNow:



'Dirty dancing' ban holds, town pays thousands
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 11/21/2008 9:00:00 AM


Editor's Note: This story contains a description that some may find offensive. :rofl:


A small North Carolina town is caving in to the American Civil Liberties Union over an eight-year-old case of "dirty dancing."

The incident in Marshall occurred at a community facility where a micro-mini-skirted Rebecca Willis, who was 56 at the time, was gyrating on the dance floor simulating intimate acts with a dance partner. According to Associated Press, the woman's dress was so short that it exposed her under-clothing -- but Willis prefers to label her style of dancing as "exuberant and flamboyant," not obscene.

Evidently, however, clientele at the Marshall Depot disagreed, and Willis was told to stay away from the refurbished train station that serves as a community center. She brought a lawsuit, and now the city has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle the suit. AP says the town strongly opposes lifting the ban on Willis.

Attorney Matt Barber is an attorney with Liberty Counsel. "Well, it's a shame that we've reached a point in our society where if somebody puts up even conservative and reasonable standards of decency in an establishment used by the community, they are subject to being sued at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars," he remarks.

Barber stresses a community ought to be able to establish its own standards of decency.

"Yet the ACLU, again, is going to step into the defense of immorality and indecency -- and unfortunately this just once again shows what the ACLU stands for," he states. "They are pushing an agenda of moral relativism."

Barber suggests that settling the lawsuit and paying the money encourages others to file similar lawsuits. Willis, however, believes the settlement sends a message to the community that it should allow for diversity and free expression.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=325218 (if Rick-rolled, the story's in the OneNewsNow section of www.afa.net )

[LeftyMom]

1. I personally support any law that bans women older than my mother from freak dancing

and showing their underpants.

That lady needs to grow some dignity.

[really annoyed]

3. Oh, I Agree

But that dignity should not be enforced upon her by an outside force. Unfortunately, some people never want to grow up. :rofl:

[Warpy]

6. Are you kidding? Go, granny!

Most of us have more sense and are sedate, but I fully approve of old gals who still have stuff to strut and if males find it unseemly, they can put their eyes somewhere else.

[LeftyMom]

7. Males?

I'm female (hence the screenname,) and the last thing I want to see in public is some old woman's vintage ass. Or some old man's saggy butt, for that matter.

[Warpy]

9. I chuckle and find something more pleasing to look at

and there's always something more pleasing to look at.

[Mari333]

12. amen!!! two words: TINA TURNER! N/T

[DearAbby]

13. Don't make me stop this tread and go over there.....

Shall we begin legislating morals? And by who's morals and standards should we go by?

So one night the lady got down funky, and she is banned for life? What is worse, you judge this lady, being immature, and having no dignity, because of this one act. WOW

[really annoyed]

2. Dirty Dancing = Moral Relativism?

OK then.... Amazing what these far-rights loons can come up with sometimes.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. The harlot is asking for "diversity and free expression" ?!? Sounds like Devil-talk to me! n/t

[RoyGBiv]

5. Not even close ...

It wasn't quite as formal in most places around where I lived, but there was an informal ban on dancing in the town where I was born (there simply weren't any dances) and a formal ban where I went to school up through my senior year.

As in the movie, to have a Prom, students at the school had to go to a neighboring ccommunity.

About the time I graduated, things started getting a little more liberal. My sophomore year we were able to advertise off-school Ecnads (Dances) and a Morp (Prom). My senior year was a milestone in that we had an actual dance in the school gym after the senior "banquet," which is the oddest name ever for a feast of Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was very subdued and short, but it was there.

I think I recall that the town portrayed was loosely (no pun intended) based on an actual town in Oklahoma. If not, it could have been.

[carlyhippy]

8. she was probably wearing granny panties.... no one saw anything

she's 56 and wearing micro minis? She must be in good physical shape to get away with that....what is this, Harper Valley???

[bertman]

11. "She must be in good physical shape to get away with that." carlyhippy, that's a HUGE

leap of faith you're taking.

Sadly, many of the "unfit" and "grossly unfit" among us seem to think that the rest of us have an irresistible urge to gawk at their lardy, cottage-cheese thighs, cheeks, bellies and arms. I wish I had a dollar for every ugly-ass, would-be seductress with a mini skirt, too-tight- jeans and top, that I have had walk into my line of vision before I could turn away.

There should be a law against people who commit crimes against Spandex.

[Book Lover]

15. Or...

Many women don't give a shit where they land on the hotness scale of any random male who walks into their way.

I wish *I* had a dollar for ever person who thinks that woman should accept being subject to the judgment of the male gaze. Because I'd be a fucking billionaire.

[bertman]

16. We're not talking hotness here. We're talking butt fugly. And by the way, it's not just the

male gaze. Tis a scientific fact that men AND women make instant judgments about appearance. It's something in our jeans, I mean genes.

[Book Lover]

17. If you don't want to see anybody ugly ever,

blind yourself.

[bertman]

19. I prefer to squint and look away, thank you.

[Mari333]

10. 56? you go girl. n/t

[Mari333]

14. Tina Turner is 68 years old

for all the naysayers on here who discount older women dancing. ageism does not compute.

[EFerrari]

18. A fine tradition.