For some inexplicable reason, the same people who like on-demand abortion hate laws intended to protect kids from sexual exploitation after they’re born, and they’ve been especially busy the last few months putting up roadblocks to the enforcement of several such laws recently passed by state legislators in Texas.
When the bill was debated in the Texas House, one Democrat lawmaker ludicrously suggested it could have the unintended effect of banning performances by the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Another taunted a witness testifying in favor of the legislation by feigning ignorance about drag shows targeting children, asking her where he could take his teenage daughter to one.
“That’s disgusting,” quipped Kelly Neidert, the executive director of Protect Texas Kids.
Although initial drafts of Senate Bill 12 specifically targeted drag shows, the final version contains no mention of the term. Due to concerns that courts would find the narrow application arbitrarily discriminatory and an infringement on freedom of expression, the law was expanded to prohibit “sexually oriented performances” at commercial establishments in the presence of children and on public property where they “could reasonably be expected to be viewed by a child.
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