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Originally Posted by FatFreeGoodness
Both your basic premise and your comparisons are flawed, here.
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Legally? No crap. See my earlier posts. As far as the legal stuff, go back up and see what I posted about what I can tell about the actual legal aspects. I think they've got a case when they add obscenity + political speech. Maybe. Maybe not.
Some of it is opinion (ie. receiving tax dollars makes it publicly owned) - I think that certain types of places, where you receive a lot of federal/state/public $$$
and invite the public in
should come into consideration when determining how much you may restrict the public's attire and comportment, and in that sense the amount to which it is public or private.
As far as the mall goes, I'll take your word for it. I've seen some atrocious things in the malls down here (in yon bible belt) and I'm pretty sure that a large portion of the people would rather they didn't have some of it around. They don't kick 'em out, and I've always assumed it was related to that whole "they're not actually breaking the law" thing. Can they, for instance, kick you out for wearing an "abortion is murder" shirt? Regardless, it doesn't really matter. I think I've presented my opinion on this issue enough times that it is, as someone else posted above, a revolving door. For the legal stuff, see start of post.