Legislation will update Ohio obscenity lawsApril 29, 2025State Representative Angie King (R-Celina) and Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Twp.) have introduced legislation to update Ohio’s obscenity laws and protect children and families from sexualized performances taking place in public spaces.The Indecent Exposure Act will protect children from being exposed to obscene or sexualized performances in public spaces. This legislation is a reintroduction of House Bill 245 with newly added language to narrow the focus of the legislation and achieve the goal of protecting children.“I am deeply committed to protecting our children,” said King. “As a mother and as a legislator, I believe Ohio families should feel safe taking their children to a city park without the risk of coming across an event or person performing in a way that incorporates themes, imagery, and acts intended for mature audiences.”“We are seeing trends of indecent exposure and over-sexualized performances taking place in public in the presence of children,” said Williams. “Representative King and I and many other Ohioans don’t agree with these acts taking place in the open. This legislation is simply updating already existing law to the times that we are living in. So, we want to update the obscenity law so we can ensure families and children are protected from these acts.”
This is just anther disguised Republican attempt to ban us!
Under HB 249, drag performers could face felony charges if a juvenile attends an ‘obscene’ performance.The Buckeye FlameBy Ken SchneckApril 30, 2025Ohio Republicans have again introduced a bill to ban drag performances from venues outside of “adult cabaret spaces.”Now dubbed the “Indecent Exposure Modernization Act,” HB 249 is sponsored by Reps. Angela King (R-Celina) and Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Twp.) and co-sponsored by 42 other Republican representatives.The bill would ban an individual from “recklessly [engaging] in an adult cabaret performance in a location other than an adult cabaret,” spaces that regularly feature persons who appear in a state of nudity or seminudity.“Adult cabaret performance” is defined as one that is “harmful to juveniles or obscene” and the list of entertainers includes “performers or entertainers who exhibit a gender identity that is different from the performer’s or entertainer’s biological sex, using clothing, makeup, prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts, or other physical markers.”The definition of “adult cabaret performance” also includes “other similar performers or entertainers who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest,” a vaguely defined category that could include many forms of dance, including burlesque.
We have been through this once and the courts have said that the bans are unconstitutional!
The Kentucky Lantern wrote, "On June 2, 2023, Judge Thomas Parker, a Trump-appointed federal district court judge in western Tennessee, ruled that Tennessee’s “Adult Entertainment Act” violated the First Amendment’s free speech protection." P.S. he was appointed by Trump.
The Dallas Morning News reported down in Texas... "A federal judge on Tuesday declared a Texas law targeting drag shows unconstitutional, siding with LGBTQ Pride event organizers and performers who sued and blocking its enforcement."
In another Texas case Them wrote that,
A federal judge ruled on Monday that “Draggieland,” an annual drag show scheduled for this Thursday at Texas A&M University, could proceed as planned. She also blocked the university from enforcing its blanket drag ban, calling the policy “unconstitutionally vague,” and implied that drag shows are a protected form of speech.“To ban the performance from taking place on campus because it offends some members of the campus community is precisely what the First Amendment prohibits,” U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal wrote in her opinion in Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council v. William Mahomes.
But still in the face of all of these court cases around the country the Ohio legislature still passed the law! Why?
The answer is simple... they are playing to their Christian Nationalist base. Then when the law is overturned they will attack the courts calling "activist" judges and call for their arrests like they have done before!
Here is a tip. You all know how many links that I post, there is a trick I use to stop them from following where I post them from. A Google doesn't add them but everyone does.
Look for something like these:
Facebook: ?fbclid=IwY2xjaw...
ChatGPT: ?utm_source=chatgpt.com...
Anything after the "?" you can cut off from URL and it will still take you where you are going but not where you came from. They are just for tracking!
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