Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
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EDINBURGH, Ind. (AP) - The Venus di Milo had better wear a top and Michelangelo's David should put on some pants if they're going to be seen at a yard art business.
Bartholomew County officials told the business near Interstate 65 that it must move cement copies of the classical statues ? and about 10 others ? out of public view because they are obscene under Indiana law.
"They have nudity ... and that should not be in the view of a minor," he said.
Here is a law that needs to be changed. The 2 people that complained must have a low threshhold of offense.
It seems to me that pictures of these might be found in encyclopedias in schools as well. If so, would they cut them up?
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Here is one that does not:
3-31-2005
Officials order cover-up for in-the-buff yard art
Indiana?s obscenity law prohibits the display of nudity where children might see it.
But Ken Falk, legal director for the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, said nudity has been part of art for hundreds of years and that using nudity to define obscenity could raise serious constitutional questions.
?Just because something is nude doesn?t mean it?s obscene,? he said. ?If that were the case, most Renaissance art would have to be put into back rooms or hidden.?
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I wouldn't expect anything less out of a Red State.
The U.S. is already at War within itself.
It is the Self Righteous Control Freaks Vs those that prefer Freedom.
There has not been major bloodshed battles yet but they are most certainly coming.
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