{"id":281483,"date":"2016-11-22T14:19:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281483"},"modified":"2020-10-30T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:23:05","slug":"topless-rights-case-just-one-short-step-from-u-s-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/topless-rights-case-just-one-short-step-from-u-s-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Topless rights case just one short step from U.S. Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>The big question is: If the Supreme Court allows topless for women, will Facebook change its prudish policy? Somebody from Facebook can answer, please?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO, Nov. 22 \u2013 On Nov. 1, a three-judge panel at the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court\u00a0of Appeals heard oral arguments for equal topless rights in\u00a0Tagami v. City of Chicago,bringing\u00a0the legal battle launched by the women\u2019s organization GoTopless just one step away from the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn August 24, 2013, police ticketed GoTopless activist Sonoko Tagami for indecent exposure for appearing bare-chested at an annual GoTopless Day rally at North Lake Beach in Chicago,\u201d said GoTopless President Nadine Gary. \u201cNone of the shirtless men present were ticketed for the same behavior, so Tagami sued the city of Chicago for discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Kenneth Flaxman has been defending Tagami\u2019s equal topless rights since the beginning of her legal battle three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s basing his arguments\u00a0on the first and fourteenth amendments of the U.S. Constitution,\u201d Gary said. \u201cAfter he argued the case before the Court of Appeals last week,\u00a0he reported that\u00a0one judge seemed to favor equal topless rights while another expressed the view that a woman&#8217;s body contains more erogenous areas than a man\u2019s, implying that the law shouldn\u2019t ignore established social sensibilities concerning the covering of female breasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The third judge, the only male on the panel, remained silent on the issue, according to Gary.\u00a0Adding that the panel will render its opinion sometime in the next twelve months, she quoted Flaxman as saying, \u201cIf the court upholds the current restriction on topless rights, we will seek further review before the\u00a0Court\u00a0of Appeals. And if that is unsuccessful, we will seek further review by the United States\u00a0Supreme\u00a0Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe GoTopless\u00a0cultural revolution initiated by\u00a0spiritual\u00a0leader Rael\u00a0in 2007\u00a0will celebrate its tenth anniversary on Women\u2019s Equality Day, Aug. 26, 2017,\u201d\u00a0Gary said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gotopless.org\/news.php?extend.162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/gotopless.org\/news.php?extend.162<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The big question is: If the Supreme Court allows topless for women, will Facebook change its prudish policy? Somebody from Facebook can answer, please? &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}