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July 23rd, 2008

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Arkansas is made of fail

So I found this tonight:

Arkansas code, ยง 5-68-204 )

So, it is illegal in Arkansas to be naked in the presence of anyone other than your doctor or your spouse. Regardless of whether it's in a public place or not. In fact, it pretty specifically includes private property in the prohibition.

And it's illegal to "advocate, demonstrate, or promote nudism." Meaning I were simply wearing, for example, this shirt within the state of Arkansas, I would be committing a crime. I'm not sure how the Arkansas legislature managed to reconcile this in their uncivilized little minds with pesky little things like the First Amendment.

Furthermore, as this article points out, that clause makes it effectively illegal to campaign to change the law.

I think this may well be the dumbest law ever, and I'm including the ones about transporting whales by truck or changing π to 3. Unlike those laws, this law doesn't have the excuse of being a leftover from an uncivilized and barbaric age; it was passed in 1994.
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