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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The shows will go on.

  • paraphrased from that judge, for those who may have trouble parsing that headline.
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I was wondering if I somehow forgot to read

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank God I wasn't alone.

Fucking word soup up there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Nope, definitely not alone.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Montana judge continues blocking anti-drag-laws

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, holy shit, that headline is hard to parse with the "maintenance of restrictions on enforcement of bans."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure many Republicans are rejoicing since a fair few of them love drag shows.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Ha! Your comment is like the headline!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

RuPublicans.

Hey there's no shame in being fabulous. They should get to live their best lives too. Queens 👑👠

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

american law confuses me.
It is a good thing the shitty law doesn't get enforced, but it's so strange to me how a judge can just ban enforcement of a law. Is it. Even a law then

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Laws can't conflict with the US Constitution, so if a law says that people with certain clothes aren't allowed to speak, then the judge can say that's not a real law.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's the freedom of speech thing people seem to hate. Drag is a form of art and expression so there's a massive hurdle in trying to ban it. If they can't make it over the hurdle of the first amendment it is unenforceable as a law.

There are still sodomy laws on the books in some states that are entirely useless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The party concerned about freedom is really concerned about controlling what people wear.