If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear, well, something. The Northern California city's long-standing acceptance of public nudity is under attack, and baring it all might be a crime pending a vote scheduled for this week.
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The Californian city's board of supervisor's decision came in response to complaints by residents and businesses disturbed by an increase of nudists job accommodation network in the city's historically gay Castro District. job accommodation network The board voted 6-5 on Tuesday in favor of the ban, which fines first-time job accommodation network offenders $100, second-time offenders $200 and third-time offenders up to $500 and/or a misdemeanor charge and a year in jail.
"We're a city that believes in freedom, and we've always believed in freedom and free expression," Supervisor Scott Wiener, who introduced the ordinance, told CNN affiliate KGO. "But taking your pants off at Castro and Market and displaying your genitals to everyone, that's not free expression."
Some nudists argued that a ban on public job accommodation network nudity job accommodation network is a drastic measure that strips them of their freedom. job accommodation network While the board favored the ban overall, some nudists were impressed by the votes of the five supervisors who supported the right to public nudity – even though they were disappointed by the outcome of the vote.
"I was very impressed today by the supervisors that did not support the nudity ban," nudist activist Mitch Hightower wrote on Facebook. "They asked many of the same questions we've all been asking. Such as 'Why wasn't job accommodation network there any effort to find a community solution short of citywide legislation?' 'Is a problem at one street corner really the most important way to spend our time?'"
While the new law brought relief to those who felt uncomfortable at the sight of nudists, it angered those who liked to take their clothes off. As soon as the measure passed, distraught protesters inside City Hall tore of their clothes before being escorted away by authorities and forced to cover themselves with blue blankets.
job accommodation network "Is the First Amendment more powerful and more important than the passions job accommodation network of an intolerant job accommodation network mob and the ambitions of one or more city supervisors?" Christina DiEdorado, an attorney representing the nudists, told KGO. "We would contend that it is, and that's what our case is based upon."
Under the ordinance, public nudity will still be allowed job accommodation network at parades, fairs and festivals where nudity is legally permitted. The ordinance will be put up for a second vote on Dec. 4. San Francisco legislation must always undergo two votes.
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as i regularly pass through the castro and "rub shoulders" with our nudist friends, i have a narrow-minded job accommodation network unfair self-serving shallow ageist suggestion: i suggest one must get a license to flounce about in one's birthday suit. the license would [thankfully] expire job accommodation network every 5 years requiring a renewal.... and part of the licensing would be a mid-day weekend flouncing test [like a driver's license test] and depending upon many factors [very much including public reaction] one can be issued the permit....and be ticketed / have the license suspended if caught violating a prescribed set of narrow-minded unfair self-serving shallow ageist so-called aesthetic regulations.
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