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Praying For The Smut Peddler

I am not sure if the issue will ever be resolved when it comes to conflicts around adult businesses being available to the public and those who find that immoral. My heart goes out to those with a brick and mortar store because I certainly would not want to deal with the red tape and legal issues they do.

Yet again, another adult store is the issue of controversy. This time it is in Kentucky for Jeree Mills, owner of a store called Dreamworld that sells pornographic magazines, movies and novelties.

When you hear the word novelties it really means sex toys. The reason everyone is calling them that these days is because apparently many local governments want adult businesses to lie and say that the cool vibrator you want is not a sex toy but is really a novelty and couldn't possibly be used to stimulate your genitals... why that would be obscene!

Yes, you heard me right, obscene. Jeree Mills has pleaded guilty to distributing obscene material (a misdemeanor) and received the maximum fine of $250 and 90 days in jail. Jeree said she will remain in business, but as part of the plea, she agreed to close the store between 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday, meaning it won't be open during morning church services because apparently they think that God is disgusted with sexuality and nudity. Seems odd considering they also believe he is responsible for creating it.

Church groups said they feared the store would feed addiction to pornography because apparently Christian folk there do have sex, but they don't watch it or enjoy being creative about it by using lubricants, and vibrators.

Mills' attorney, H. Louis Sirkin of Cincinnati, sought to void Kentucky's law against distributing obscene material as unconstitutional, meaning the case could have had wider implications for Kentucky had it gone forward. But Mills said she decided to plead guilty because her attorneys and Dixon worked out an agreement both sides could live with.

Mills said she probably would have been convicted by a local jury but would have won on appeal. Meaning that the local yokels there would not be able to make an intelligent decision based on her constitutional rights. The Constitution (oh yes, apparently we still have one of those thing-er-ma-jigs) protects her right to sell adult material and the right of adults to buy it.

The Rev. Leonard Lester, who pastors a Barbourville church and helped lead opposition to Mills' store, said he was satisfied Mills had been prosecuted as far as the law allows. But he said church members would push legislators to raise the stakes on distributing obscene material, making it a felony. And he said opponents will keep praying for the demise of Dreamworld. "We're not out of the woods yet, because it's still open," he said. So apparently, the good Reverend finds himself with wood.