Mississippi
City Banning Porn Sales
In
Magnolia, Mississippi an ordinance to ban the sale of sexually
explicit material has been instated. The small city of Magnolia
covers 3.2 square miles and has a population of just over 2,000.
The board acted during the first week of March after receiving
complaints from ministers and others offended by what they said
were pornographic magazines being displayed at some area stores.
Possessing
pornography, however, is not illegal under the new ordinance.
"It has no place in our town. I would like to see it out of our
community altogether," Alderman George "Lucky" Chaplain told the
news service. Mayor Jim Storer said that he does not see the ordinance
as being in conflict with free speech rights. Which of course
means he is blind to the very definition of free speech.
Storer
said businesses caught selling pornographic material could be
cited and fined, although no specific penalty has been established.
"There would be a citation and then a charge for that citation
... it's not fixed at this time."
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