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For yet more proof that Republicans do not deserve the mantle of "less government interference" check this out.

CNN.com - Texas mom faces trial for selling sex toys - Feb. 11, 2004

I seriously can't figure out why some friends of mine think that Republicans offer less government than Democrats. It's not a case of less government. If it were then John Ashcroft would have been run out of Washington, D.C. a long time ago and the "Patriot Act" would have been shredded instead of signed into law. The problem seems to be that Republicans have trouble with their sex lives, so they are frustrated and thus feel a strong need to take it out on others.

Busting moms selling sex paraphernalia is definately not what I want my government to be spending my vanishing tax dollars on right now.

OK, so let's try again get this Republican == Libertarian thing straightened out. Texas is a staunchly Republican state. So why the hell is the government of Texas interfering with this poor woman's livelihood? This woman is a church goer (and a Baptist, no less), a former school teacher, active in her community, etc, and yet the government launched a secret "sting" operation because she's selling (gasp) vibrators and she has the gall to admit that they can be used for (gasp again) sexual stimulation!

Get out of the damned stone age, Texas!! It's the 21st century now by anyone's calendar and vibrators and other sex toys are not the problem. Victorian attitudes about consensual sex and a reckless invasion of privacy is the problem.

Duh.

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