(September 26, 2014 at 1:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: Yes there are laws against trademark infringement....but there are also laws against desecrating other peoples property. The point of the Micky example was to show that Free Speech doesn't always give you a free pass. If private property can be protected against trademark infringement why can't private property be protected against desecration?
The kid should get his own Jesus statue if he wants to simulate sex acts with a Jesus statue instead of desecrating someone else's.
As far as I know, there are NO laws against "desecrating" anyone's private property other than, in some states, so-called "venerated objects".
The idea is, one can "hurt" private property without actually changing it physically in any way. It's all about the sensibilities of the religious.
That, right there, is the problem. Do you not see it?
