15 years old? And maybe legal as low as 12 years old? Where do these judges come from? I could do a better job than this. Do you ever get the feeling these rich people live in a different world than the rest of us? Or is this just one more thing to destroy anything that resembles a civilized society?

There needs to be some movement to get rid of old, dusty laws that don't make sense in modern society.
A law was ressurrected in Michigan a few years back about swearing in front of women being illegal and they put a guy in jail.
Some judges are just big on word of the law and that means this judge was going by a legitimate decision... just a dumb one.

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The case you cite involved swearing at a sustained, particularly loud, relentlessly vile rate --- in front of many kids, and others, at a lake. Some loudmouthed drunken yahoo fell out of a boat or off a dock and got wet. Wow, what a sterling reason to curse for so long he was still doing it when the cops ticketed his vulgar self.

Can we afford to allow popular culture to take precedence over parental authority's choice not to hear such language used around their kids? I say no. I'd tell the bozo in the wet T-shirt to jam the shirt down his throat, before I did.

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Can we afford to allow parental authority over the environment around kids extend to the point that we waste the time of the police and courts, as well as the space in jail on a minor offense that if anything should be handled with a fine? No.
There are a lot of stupid people in the world. At some point you have to communicate in the manner which my dad summarized as "If I catch you doing that &%*$, I'll kick your @$$". To this day I don't swear around my dad without a symptomatic twitch. That's parental authority.

But as relevant to the topic at hand, the law is outdated. Public drunkeness, disturbing the peace, whatever. This law is about cussing at any volume under any context in front of a woman or child. Personally I'm amazed the feminists didn't jump all over that one, so antiquidated that it places women on the same level as children.
In the meantime we have more agrarian laws that are being ressurrected to bypass age of consent laws?
We need to find a way to clean out these old law books. Too many laws, not enough sense.

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The 'Boulder culture' (home of Colorado University ((CU)) of Colorado is corrupt to the core with liberalism. The more graduates it produces, the more the entire state suffers. CU is definitively anti-American, pro-gay, Marxist, atheistic, and hateful toward everything traditionally Western, as in European. I loathe CU. It should be relocated to Beijing, China, ASAP.

I actually agree that it is too young, but it is technically not Pedophelia. Because both parties are underaged. Pedophelia is an adult having sex with a child. A 15 year old is not an adult.

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Who is that Judge, anyway? He must be a pedophilia himself, the worm!

I'd stuff his head in the meat grinder, the creep!

What is his name? I will email him and give him a dose of my Ginna-temper!

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