“Fueled by public outcry, a bill to outlaw what’s known as “upskirting,” the practice of secretly snapping certain sexual photos, rocketed through the Massachusetts Legislature Thursday in an extraordinary show of legislative will.
The uncommon speed of the bill was a marked shift for the Legislature, which often moves at a deliberate and sometimes glacial pace, but lawmakers said outrage over a Supreme Judicial Court ruling the day before spurred the quick action.
“It is sexual harassment; it’s an assault on another person,” Senate President Therese Murray said of the secret photography and other acts of sexual survelliance that the bill aims to prohibit. “Women and children should be able to go to public places without feeling that they are not protected by the law.””* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz and Eboni K Williams break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Joshua Miller / The Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2014/03/06/after-high-court-ruling-upskirting-legislative-leaders-pledge-quick-action/P1bp7k0AnT0UC6X8JsNjnJ/story.html
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First Cousin marriages:
Just a word on first cousin marriages in the USA. Those marriages are legal in about 20 or 25 states. The majority of those states are in the old Confederate states, and some of the old border (slave) states, but do include such as Ohio, as I recall. I think that may not be true of double first cousins, where both sets of parents are all siblings. 2nd cousin marriages or double 2nd cousin marriages have almost never been illegal.