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In Roswell, Georgia, a neighboring suburb in metro Atlanta, a law was passed a year ago that banned cursing in public. I thought it seemed like it would be too difficult to enforce and that there were probably other more important issues for them to be concerned with. Wondered how it coincided with First Amendment rights, but liked the idea of a more civil society.
Shortly after the law was put in place, a woman was arrested because she swore at a cop who was called to the movie theater where she bought a movie ticket, allegedly with a bogus gift card (don't know the particulars of why the ticket seller thought this---and the woman did have a receipt in her purse, but did not initially produce it). So now she is filling a lawsuit against the theater as well as the city:
I don't understand the whole thing. Someone please explain.
NOW Roswell's legal department decides that the law was against First Amendment rights? Where were they when it was written and approved?
"And so one purpose of the lawsuit, still in its early stages, will be to determine whether the ordinance was used to escalate unpleasant police encounters with minorities into something more."
I understand that the plaintiff's attorney will do whatever s/he can to win the case. But why the focus on minorities? Isn't anyone capable of swearing, including at police officers? Is the implication that a person of minority status is more likely to swear?
It may be true that police have to develop a thicker skin----but it will also be equally true that we all do. Even if we'd rather not hear swearing, it's now part of the culture and more acceptable at large, so we just have to learn to live with it...but don't you think the Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves?
Virginia Beach has the same law as well. From my experience it works out pretty well. I don't know of anyone that has been arrested for it. Its more of a public shaming thing.
I'd be so f$&@$ed if they passed this law where I live.
I find people who never curse frightening. It's rude to curse in front of other people's children, or at someone, but if you stub your toe and don't utter a swear word... You scare me.
I'd be so f$&@$ed if they passed this law where I live.
I find people who never curse frightening. It's rude to curse in front of other people's children, or at someone, but if you stub your toe and don't utter a swear word... You scare me.
Dad would say ,"vulgarity is the desperate effort of a feble mind to express it's self forcably."
One of the reasons I have turned down jobs is due to the vulgarity the management used in their business dealings.
It is disrespectful and abusive IMO.
There are principles of life I have learned, with regard to those things we speak.
You strive for power when you say things , but throw away that power by misusing it.
I refrain from swearing in public or at work for the most part, and I almost never swear at a person, but a well-placed curse word can make a statement or a joke.
The only comedian I know of who never swears and lectures others on it is.... Bill Cosby. Scary.
doesn't the idea of curse words go back hundreds of years w/the church?
sums it up for me
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