ORLANDO, Florida - An appeals court has ruled that women can demonstrate topless as part of a legitimate political protest, striking down the arrest of a woman who has repeatedly flouted laws banning women from publicly going bare breasted.

 

The Seventh Judicial Circuit Court of Appeals on Oct. 5 upheld a county judge's opinion that Elizabeth Book could protest topless on the city's Main Street Bridge.

 

Book was arrested by Daytona Beach police and fined $253 during Bike Week in March 2004. The city said she violated an ordinance banning public nudity that was passed in 2002 to curb indecency at special events.

 

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I agree 100% and would love to see the women of Chicago take up the same cause!

I agree 100% and would love to see the women of Chicago take up the same cause!

 

Things would get a little perky with the weather around here this week...

 

I'll never understand why so many Americans are so uncomfortable with the human body. That hoopla about the picture of a mother breast feeding, perhaps the most natural thing in the world, on the cover of PARENTHOOD magazine still baffles me.

Edited October 13, 200619 yr by StrangeSox