Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Defender of Gay Porn: Me


No, not for my personal consumption, but the Nebraska wrestlers, who have been dismissed from the team for posing in (what sounds like) soft gay porn, should nto be kicked off solely because of this, right?

If it's softcore it is protected by the First Amendment, as erotica has artistic merit. Hardcore would fail the Miller test, but what is the Miller test? It's been drilled into every journalism college student's head in their first semester 101 course.

But seriously, if it takes such a three-pronged test that relies on subjectivity and not empirical, objective evidence, is it really a fair test?

Not to mention, as receivers of federal and state funding, the school and its athletic program cannot whimsically dismiss students for legal activities non-pertinent to their or the team's performance. The whole argument that smears the image of the team is a joke. Social mores change. If you as a coach or AD can't handle it, go work at a private school.

Whether or not I believe there should be federally funded colleges is a whole different story I could rant on.

But for now: /rant over

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