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Amdt1.7.5.11 Obscenity

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Although public discussion of political affairs is at the core of the First Amendment, the. . .

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. . . U.S. 49, 73, 113 (1973) (Brennan, J., dissenting). But children do have First Amendment protection and government may not bar dissemination of everything to them. The Court stated: Speech that is neither obscene as to youths nor subject to some other legitimate proscription cannot be suppressed solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative body thinks unsuitable for them. .

It’s not a great leap to bar legislatures from prohibiting a child from seeing something to which their parent had no objection, i.e human nudity.

I would ask one further question. Are Wisconsin farmers barred from allowing their minor children to view the mating of farm animals?

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If these bills go through the World's Naturist Community should blacklist Wisconsin.

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