I knew it would not be long before someone trotted out the first amendment.

What we are talking about here is not the right of someone to wear trash. The first amendment guarantees that anyone who wants to look like an idiot and sound like an idiot (whether it be racism or sexism or whatever) has that right. That is why I said in an earlier post that if you want to wear and discuss such things in your group or in a venue where everyone entering that venue expects such behavior, then you are more than welcome to do so. But I believe we are talking about whether it is appropriate, in a venue that (I am assuming) would be considered a general public venue, with a wide variety of people present, to wear the same trash.

You can stand outside and yell "fire" all day long. But if you go inside an crowded theater and do the same thing you will be charged with a crime. The skin heads and neo-nazis have the right, as provided in the constitution, to say whatever they want. The state, can, however, limit that speech as to time, place, duration, etc, based on a permit to march. The state cannot tell a woman she has to wear a top in the privacy of her home, but let her go to the mall and.....

Society always has had, and always will have, certain standards that it holds appropriate (note the name of the thread) for public gatherings where a wide variety of views, opinions, and beliefs must be merged into somewhat of a cohesive whole. There will be those who think the standard is too confining, there will be those who feel it is to expansive.

And, by the way Mr. Bridge, my id, ego and superego are all in one huge cosmic confluence where peace and serenity abide.

Freightdawg