Brattleboro, Vermont Maintains Right To Public Nudity

The city elders of Brattleboro, Vermont used good judgement, in my opinion, in failing to rule on a city ordinance banning public nudity. Their reasoning was pretty simple. The leaves are changing and it will soon be too cold for public nudity. If the problem pops up again in the spring they will reexamine the issue.

I applaud these hearty New Englanders and their common sense. Public nudity could be used as a wedge issue to separate and invigorate political factions; instead they simply dropped it in favor of Mother Nature taking care of the problem.

As many readers recall Brattleboro is home to what was termed Breast Fest in 1990, a topless parade to invigorate discussion of breast cancer. The latest nude appearances have been sporadic and mostly teenagers sunbathing or having good clean fun sans clothing.

Here in Texas being "nekid" is akin to robbing a bank and would bring down the full force of the law. Gawd I hate this state sometimes!