Show-Me Drag Show Crackdown Part Deux: Who Will Tell Us What's Too Sexy?!?

Here's where this discussion always falls apart . . .

NOBODY IS DUMB ENOUGH TO WANT TO RUIN THEIR SOCIAL LIFE & CAREER BY SERVING AS THE MISSOURI DRAG SHOW HALL MONITOR CENSOR!!!

Cops don't want to do it.

No serious politico wants the job.

A judge would probably be too liberal about the whole thing and then we'd be back to square one. 

Throughout the ages the problem with government censorship has always been the Un-American practice of putting some fallible human in charge of determining public decorum. 

Even the American movie industry got tired of an appointed Catholic bishop ruining all of their fun. 

Accordingly . . . 

NO, we don't think drag shows are the best entertainment for youngsters . . . But we can't imagine a world wherein law enforcement is responsible for enforcing arbitrary and probably unconstitutional regulations foist upon community theater. 

Also, isn't there more important stuff to work on in Jeff City than regulating RuPaul's audience?!?

Of course . . . We share news and legislative moves to the contrary . . . 

A Senate committee held a public hearing on legislation sponsored by state Sen. Rick Brattin, a Harrisonville Republican, that he argued was “geared towards protecting children from displays of sexual content.”

The bill would make it a class-A misdemeanor to participate in an “adult cabaret performance” in a public area or other space where children might see. A repeat violation becomes a class-E felony.

State Sen. Nick Schroer, a Republican from Defiance who chairs the Senate’s judiciary committee, discussed possible fixes to the bill’s definitions following opponent’s testifying that community theater could be impacted.

The issue is a definition of “adult cabaret performance” that includes “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest or similar entertainers.”

Including “or similar entertainers,” opponents said, is too vague and may draw police to plays where women play male roles or a non-sexual performance by a transgender person.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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