ACLU: We’re not THAT into public restroom sex
Posted on January 17, 2008
The ACLU must have been feeling the heat yesterday. Late in the day, the ACLU issued this “clarification” of its (wide) stance on Larry Craig’s case.
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union supports Senator Larry Craig’s attempt to have his guilty plea withdrawn because the Minnesota law under which he was arrested is unconstitutionally broad. The statute punishes “offensive, obscene or abusive language†which tends to arouse “alarm, anger or resentment†in others. Clearly, this law has the potential to ensnare and criminalize legal, constitutionally protected free speech, including solicitation for private sex.
The Minnesota Supreme Court and other courts have found that a closed bathroom stall is a private location. The police have no business spying on people in places where there is an expectation of privacy. The ACLU is in no way advocating sex in public bathrooms. If law enforcement is genuinely interested in stopping sex in public bathrooms rather than ensnaring people in sting operations, posting a sign prohibiting it and announcing police patrols would be much more effective and would meet constitutional requirements.
The last sentence is nonsensical given the position they’ve expressed in this very statement. If sex solicitation is “protected speech†and sex in a public bathroom stall is “private,†wouldn’t such a sign prohibiting both be a prior restraint that chills the exercise of that “protected speech?†Wouldn’t patrols of the sort the ACLU suggests be akin to police doing rounds outside your bedroom, every fourth pass peeking through the keyhole, since this is a “privacy” issue?
Do they think they’re fooling anyone?
The ACLU is in no way advocating sex in public bathrooms.
Que? You filed a brief in support of it, ACLU. You just issued a statement saying that anonymous sex solicitation is “protected speech” and that carrying out the solicitation is a matter of “privacy” that the authorities have no business interrupting. What do you mean you don’t support sex in public bathrooms?
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“The last sentence is nonsensical given the position they’ve expressed in this very statement. If sex solicitation is “protected speech†and sex in a public bathroom stall is “private,†wouldn’t such a sign prohibiting both be a prior restraint that chills the exercise of that “protected speech?—
You’ve got all the right words in there. But you’ve arranged them so that you’re not making any sense.
The argument about whether your actions in a bathroom stall are immune from police search is mute as the police officer in question did not search the stall but instead gave witness only to that which was viewable from his own stall and therefore hardly hidden or concealed.
Even if it was relevant the out of sight out of mind argument is rather a babyish viewpoint like playing a game of peekaboo.