Implied BJ on Jesus, atheists support teen.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

In America, corpses are often put on display in a funeral home, not public display. Disturbing a body with a death requiring an inquest is a criminal act, and that includes any death where a physcician was not present. It's a health code violation, handling dead bodies safely requires training.

AND IT"S THE BODY OF AN ACTUAL PERSON YOU ETHICAL IDIOT! It's not 'venerated', it's loved by people in the midst of shock and grief and maybe outrage. I would have no sympathy for a cop shot dead while abusing a corpse, and I think a jury would let the shooter off lightly. That's because juries are mostly composed of people with normal sensibilities.

I'm not kidding when I say this, I intend it as serious advice that I hope you follow: you need to get professional help. There is something seriously wrong with you.

Mister Agenda....you are missing the point.

Others have claimed that prosecuting this teen is un-constitutional because the teen did not damage the property and has a right to free speech. I say they are wrong. The constitution protects free speech but it does not protect speech in which someone else's private property is commandeered and used as prop.

Citation?

I also need clarification on the word 'prop'? Statutes in the public realm are there to be looked at an engaged with; that's their sole purpose. If somebody leant on the statue, or took a photo with their arm around the statue, or indeed kissed the statue, I presume that would not warrant prosecution. Why then a kid putting his dick on/near it?

What if a guy was thrusting towards the statue without his genitals out? Would that count as being obscene and 'offending community sensibilities'? What about a woman rubbing her naked breast against it?

Or hell, what about a person just rubbing themselves against it suggestively?

The question that needs to be asked is, why this, specific statue? I'm willing to bet my bottom dollar that nobody would have objected if the statue in question was just a piece of abstract art.

If desecrating a dead body by simulating "tea-bagging" is not protected under the constitution then desecrating a statue belonging to someone else by simulating a blow job is not protected either. You either have a constitutional right to commandeer props for your speech or you do not.

I don't see how the hypothetical is related at all to the event in question.