ACLU Defends Teen Nudity

I'll just pass this one along, make of it what you will.

ACLU Challenges Nude Teen Camp Ban as Breach of Privacy Rights

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges a new state law that effectively bans nude summer camps for teenagers, saying it violates the constitutional right to privacy.

The camp in question is for kids from 11 to 18 years old, and is called, I kid you not, White Tail. And yes, the kids are "supervised" at all times, so all you have to worry about is the supervisors, plus a camp full of raging hormones, or do those just magically come off with the clothes?

"Legislators overreacted and in the process they substantially interfered with the right of families to make lifestyle choices," Virginia ACLU executive director Kent Willis said. "Using the overall logic of this law, legislators are now free to prevent children from swimming, playing baseball or riding a bus."

Well yeah, if they're nekkid... I wonder how the camp cafeteria handles the "no shoes, no shirt, no service" rule?

The law, which takes effect Thursday, denies a state license to "any hotel, summer camp or campground ... that maintains, or conducts as any part of its activities, a nudist camp for juveniles." It defines the camps as those attended by "openly nude juveniles" not accompanied by parents or legal guardians.

Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore said last year that such camps could attract pedophiles and child pornographers.

Oh surely a camp full of naked teens and pre-teens wouldn't attract them like, well, pedophiles to a camp of naked teens. Maybe the ACLU can combine this case with their defense of NAMBLA in an effort to fully establish their lunatic credentials.