Tarryl Clark's bill banning state employees from seeing violent porn progresses
Just like former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, DFL state Sen. Tarryl Clark apparently knows pornography when she sees it. And she doesn't want state employees staying in hotels where it's available.
Do you know it when you see it?
Clark, who is campaigning against fellow DFLer Maureen Reed to run against District 6 GOP congresswoman Michele Bachmann in November, has authored a bill to that effect, and yesterday it passed the Senate's State and Local Government Operation and Oversight Committee by a unanimous voice vote.
Next stop: the floor.
From Politics in Minnesota:
"Let me be clear: this bill is not about policing people's personal choices," Clark said. "This bill is about taking another step in reducing sexual violence in our society."
Maybe so. But who decides?
Here's Justice Potter's famous quote, delivered in 1964 when the high court decided in Jacobellis v. Ohio there was no hard-core pornography in the movie, "The Lovers."
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
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