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Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing ban on minors attending drag shows (www.politico.com)

submitted 2 years ago by dirtmayor@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[+] Antik@lemmy.ml 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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[–] LostCause@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I get what you‘re trying to say and I‘m not a fan of churches either, but this just legitimises this idea that we need states and governments to ban attending an activity entirely based on negative actions of a some of that group. By that logic there is a whole lot of shit we need to ban including schools, kindergardens and daycares.

The logical outcome then to "protect the children" is to ban any contact to any adult whatsoever, including the own family members since those are most likely to abuse the children.

[+] Antik@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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[–] LostCause@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh man, ok let me provide what I can.

Famous study, but quite old:

https://www.academia.edu/21997616/A_Forgotten_Study_Abuse_in_School_100_Times_Worse_than_by_Priests

Another stat from an odd site, but the link it provides seems legit:

https://floridaactioncommittee.org/likely-sexually-abuse-child-sex-offender-teacher/

4.5 million students currently in grades K-12 have suffered some form of sexual abuse by an educator, and more than 3 million have experienced sexual touching or assault.”

I also edited in an argument about most abuse being committed by family members after you replied, so just in case you see that let me add this:

https://www.childprotect.org/facts-about-child-abuse.html#:~:text=%EF%BB%BFFacts%20about%20Child%20Abuse%3A%EF%BB%BF&text=90%25%20of%20child%20sexual%20abuse,at%2018%20months%20or%20younger.

90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way. 68% are abused by a family member.

Now before you think my goal here is to defend priests or downplay their abuse, NO, I am strongly anti-religion for myself. I just don‘t think we should use government to ban it entirely, or any activities based on the actions of individuals.

How about instead make people aware of these dangers and how to stop it, how to spot kids who are abused, how to get them to talk about it and let people make informed decisions on who they expose their own kids to. If you are scared for your kids, don‘t go to a church or drag show! Good! Your right after all.

Why do people need the state to ban it for everyone? Not like bans even work well! Drugs are banned and look at the absolute state of that. Alcohol was banned and people still did it.

If you ban churches, you‘ll have underground churches hellbent on taking control of the state to reverse that and abuse still happens anyway too. Except maybe worse cause the victims might feel afraid to come forward because of the activity being illegal.

[–] HanlonsButterknife@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

"4.5 million students currently in grades K-12 have suffered some form of sexual abuse by an educator, and more than 3 million have experienced sexual touching or assault.”

And of those, which of them take place in religious boarding schools, essentially a church environment?

[–] goatmeal@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

what you did just now is called whataboutism. there is no number of child rapes by catholic priests that would influence the acceptability for a child to be admitted to an upside down leopard thong show. we cannot just claim that someone else did something worse than what we did, and that it somehow makes what we did okay. it's also problematic because it presents a false choice. we do not have to be both against children being admitted to see men dry humping each other dressed as santa's reindeer and in favor of children being raped by catholic priests.

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 19 points 2 years ago

It’s not whataboutism; it’s asking why we are allowing children around known, proven predators with a track record (priests) but preventing them from seeing those who have zero record of any inappropriate activity with children (drag queens). Do we care about children’s safety or not?

[–] JustinFTL@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

@goatmeal Hamburger Mary's is a drag/hamburger joint with a family day on Sundays. Drag queens dressed up like Lucy, etc. serve hamburgers and do family-friendly comedy. Is this for all families? Probably not. But politicians should NOT be able to tell me I can't take MY kid there. Especially when I can give consent for my child to see a rated-R movie with obscene amounts of gun violence and death. People having their heads blown off is seriously BETTER for a child to see than a man telling jokes in a dress?

@dirtmayor @Antik

[–] Arin@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They also give alcoholic wine to children, like wtf

[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago

Parents are the best arbiter of children, except drag shows. Those the Government is best entity to dictate that, apparently.

I just can’t the double speak this group keeps defending.

[–] negativenull@negativenull.com 20 points 2 years ago

They absolutely knew it was an unconstitutional law. They want it in front of a friendly SCOTUS. Legislating from the bench, just like they have always accused democrats of doing.

[–] Kara@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

I hate living in a world where undercover agents are sent to all ages "Drag Queen Christmas" events

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 11 points 2 years ago

I talked to my aging dad the other day and he surprised me with the drag queen issue. “You want this in your grandkids schools?!” he says. I said “hold on, do you actually think someone is being hurt here or are you being stoked up by tv you sit around and watch all winter?” Needless to say, a little reason goes a long way and it’s shocking how quickly people lost sight of that.

[–] Smoothie_Criminal@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can strip clubs just rebrand as drag clubs and have all ages access?

[–] 1st@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago

To directly quote the second and third paragraphs of the article:

The judge, Gregory Presnell, was acting on a request by the restaurant chain Hamburger Mary’s, which sued Florida last month claiming that the law was overly broad and put a chilling effect on the right to free speech under the First Amendment.

Presnell, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, determined that while some people may find a drag performer reading a children’s book to a minor during a performance to be inappropriate, it doesn’t necessarily constitute an obscene performance. He also stated that current obscenity laws already “provide Defendant with the necessary authority to protect children from any constitutionally unprotected obscene exhibitions or shows.”

So... No.

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