I always thought that Las Vegas was the new Sodom & Gomorrah – until I started following this story about how the city of San Francisco allows people to parade naked through the streets of their city. Anytime. Anywhere. Yes, pubic nudity is totally allowed and excepted. As long as your NOT “aroused.” What the…. are they talking about?! Is this true? YES!
“The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.” (Isaiah 3:9)
I’m serious, you can parade around a San Francisco city park naked, right next to children playing on the swings. You can go to McDonalds naked and stand right next to child ordering a Happy Meal. You can walk into a restaurant buck-nacked and sit next to family with their young children. You can go to a football game naked. You can you go to church naked. You can go see the Lion King naked. You can go to Starbucks naked in broad day light, and order yourself a latte right next to the innocent kid doing his Jr. High homework. Hey, what happens when a bus load of kindergartners drive by and see these guys naked?
Wait a minute… so does that make is it legal to walk into an elementary school naked? This is beyond immoral. It’s disgusting, perverted and insane. Pray for these people.
PLEASE READ & WATCH below…
The naked and the dread in San Francisco
The city considers a public health measure as nudity proliferates.
SAN FRANCISCO — Yes, there are limits to acceptable behavior, even here in the open-armed home of naked jogging, public floggings and all things boundary pushing.
Retired math teacher David Goldman and his husband, Michael Koehn, were sharing a pleasant alfresco moment at a public plaza in the heart of the Castro district this week, passing a slender joint between them (medicinal, of course), as Eric Anderson sunbathed one table over. Naked.
Resplendent in flip-flops, hoop earrings and a sheen of Coppertone, the out-of work retail manager, 44, had draped a lime-green sarong between flesh and public seating.
Naturists call such posterior protection “normal etiquette.”
But San Franciscans soon may call it the law.
Supervisor Scott Wiener, who represents the Castro, has just introduced an ordinance that would regulate nudity, igniting a rare debate in this famously tolerant city over personal freedom and public propriety.
“If you’re going to be naked in public, and you’re going to sit down on public seating, you should cover the seating up,” said Wiener, whose measure also would require diners in restaurants to don clothing. “We shouldn’t have to legislate about that, but we do…. It’s about basic public health.”
Goldman and Koehn are in vehement agreement. Common sense should prevail in restaurants — pants, shoes and a shirt at the minimum — and people need to sit on something, the two men said.
“I have no problem with public nudity that’s not sexually suggestive,” Goldman said between puffs. “It’s not something I would do. But I wouldn’t want to frighten the children.”
“Or,” agreed Koehn, a retired city gardener, “the horses.”
San Francisco has the so-called Naked Guys to thank for this latest lesson in lax limitations. The growing group of naturists is a regular part of the scenery in the Castro, among the best known gay enclaves in the country. They particularly enjoy Jane Warner Plaza, an often sunny spot in this foggy city, carved out of an intersection and dotted with tables and chairs.
What began as a few guys strolling starkers through the streets has reached enough critical mass in recent years that Castro residents — and not just the increasing number of parents, gay and straight — have begun complaining to officials.
Jonathan Storper, for one, talked to Wiener’s office this summer about the Naked Guys placing bare bottoms on the plaza’s public seats. Nudity “is not a gay-straight issue,” the attorney said, adding that even in San Francisco “there is a time and place for everything.”
“I’ve talked to the police about enforcing the healthcare concern, and they tell me they cannot do that,” Storper said. “And I’ve talked to the public health department. They say it’s not their jurisdiction.”
Some members of the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro also have an issue with public nudity, said organization President Stephen Adams, who personally isn’t bothered by such displays. He does, however, support Wiener’s goal, particularly for restaurants.
“You always see signs on the door, ‘Shoes and shirt required,’ ” Adams said. “You’d think [customers] would have to have pants too.”
According to city and police officials, simple public nudity is not a crime. Lewd conduct is a crime. Being naked and aroused is a crime. But dropping trou and wandering down the street is not. To have a naked person removed from the neighborhood, a resident would have to make a citizen’s arrest and then call the police.
The only people who aren’t allowed to bare all — or even wear costumes that resemble naked flesh — are waiters, waitresses or entertainers on duty in places that serve food and drink.
Which is why George Davis could lounge in Jane Warner Plaza on Tuesday afternoon, sitting on his rumpled khakis. But not in them.
Clad in nothing but a broad-brimmed hat and dark glasses, the slender 65-year-old lauded Wiener for “furthering the knowledge” that “nudity is not illegal.”
Davis, who calls himself an “urban nudist,” campaigned in the buff for mayor in 2007 and supervisor in 2010. (He lost.) He believes that simple politeness demands something be placed between flesh and chair. But he’s not so sure such behavior should be mandated.
“Basically, if someone has a cold, it’s a greater health threat than the situation of sharing a seat,” Davis said. “It seems like an excessive clarification, but, whatever.”
To Anderson, working in public on a full-body tan is a matter of pride and logistics. He can’t sunbathe in the privacy of his backyard. Like many people in this densely populated city, he simply doesn’t have one.
“Why make your clothes sweaty and dirty,” he asked. “Why hide if you’re comfortable in your own skin? This is an open-minded city, and it should continue to be so.”
(latimes.com)
San Francisco Protesters Stage Naked ‘Nude-In’
Published September 24, 2011 Associated Press
AP/San Francisco Chronicle
A Muni F-Market line streetcar rolls past nudists at Castro and 17th streets, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, in San Francisco. Originally organized to celebrate the Folsom Street Fair, the nude-in gained popularity after Supervisor Scott Wiener’s proposal to force nudists to sit on handkerchiefs or towels in public.
SAN FRANCISCO – Hanging out on a street corner has taken on new meaning in San Francisco.
Several dozen men and at least one woman took part in a naked protest Saturday in an area of the Castro District neighborhood that has become known for its nude visitors. Several carried signs that read, “Nudity is Not a Crime” and “Get Your Hate Off My Body,” as they milled around, undeterred by the brisk weather and light mist.
San Francisco generally allows public nudity, but a city supervisor has proposed regulating the practice. Supervisor Scott Wiener’s proposal would require the clothing-averse to cover up in restaurants. It would also require nudists to put a cloth or other barrier under their bottoms if they take a seat in public.
Mitch Hightower, the organizer of the so-called “nude-in,” said it was not intended as a protest against the proposal. The goal, Hightower said, was to promote acceptance of the human body no matter what shape or form it comes in.
“The people out here believe there is nothing indecent or offensive about the human body,” he said.
The event, which had been scheduled before Wiener’s proposal was announced, was part of the unofficial celebrations leading up to the annual Folsom Street Fair, billed as the world’s largest leather and fetish event.
Some of the protesters say elements of Wiener’s proposal weren’t necessary. For instance, putting down a towel is already etiquette among nudists, said George Davis, 65, who wore a black fanny pack, a fake lei and sandals at the nude-in.
“As nudists, why do we have to go to a special beach or a special resort?” Davis asked. “Why can’t we just go to a park, which we’re doing today?”
Passersby mostly seemed amused by the demonstration. Some stopped to take photographs with the naked men.
“It doesn’t bother me in the least,” said Michael Zaverton, who was visiting from Cleveland.
Zaverton, 58, said he has gone to a nude beach. Still, he hesitated as he considered whether he would participate in a more public display like the nude-in.
“It takes a little more courage `cause most of these guys, let’s admit it, are not body-beautiful,” he joked.
But Heather Flynn was not as amused. The Oakland resident, who was heading to a nearby screening of “The Little Mermaid” with her 7-year-old daughter, walked by briskly.
“When you’re at the corner of a kid’s event, I think you should cover up a little,” Flynn, 27, said.
Her daughter, Blanca, was more blunt. She scrunched up her face as she said the nudists should definitely put some clothes on.
(foxnews.com)
“The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.” #Isaiah 3:9#
notice something: there’s WAAAAY more men walking around naked than women, and in san francisco of all places, where there’s been a HUGE acceptance of homosexuality for YEARS.