The Ocean City Council is considering an ordinance to shield minors from obscene or vulgar merchandise, like the T-shirts pictured above, at the Boardwalk.
In an effort to clean up the Boardwalk, city officials this week directed staff to develop an ordinance to shield minors from obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit and profane merchandise and displays found along the storefronts.
On Tuesday, the Ocean City Council voted to advance a proposed ordinance aimed at protecting minors from what is viewed as obscene and vulgar materials that are displayed on the Boardwalk.
City Solicitor Heather Stansbury said the legislation’s goal is to restrict such displays while protecting a business owner’s First Amendment rights. For decades, Ocean City has struggled with retail stores displaying inappropriate T-shirts along the Boardwalk. Casual efforts have been made to encourage the store operators to push the vulgar apparel off the boards with varying, short-term success.
“What we’re trying to do is walk this very fine line of honoring and respecting a business, a merchant’s right to run their business and exercise free speech, while protecting our most vulnerable residents and visitors, which are the children …,” she said. “We’re trying to strike that balance, and what we’re proposing we think does strike that balance.”
This is total BS. Even the examples in the picture are silly and harmless. I know we live in a world now where so-called “Christians” are demanding power despite the fact that their actions are contrary to the teachings of our Lord, but WWJD? Jesus would support free speech and if you want to explain to your kids what the realities of sex and racism may be, you should do so. We’re entering very dangerous times with these efforts to bring us back to there Puritan age.
The way I see it-We HAVE entered very dangerous times with these efforts to bring us under satanic homosexual rule.
I thing the best they can get away with is to prevent all displays outdoors!
Those disgusting t shirts and other thing hung right out on the boardwalk for all the kids to see. Adults don’t want to see the filthy junk either.
but children are being taught all the joys of homosexuality in elementary school. the lg bar b que crowd needs to be put in straight jackets along with the gay board of ed members.