PART II

WHY LAWS AGAINST CONSENSUAL

ACTIVITIES ARE NOT A GOOD IDEA

It's Un-American

Laws against Consensual Activities

Are Unconstitutional

Laws against Consensual Activities Violate

the Separation of Church and State,

Threatening the Freedom of and from Religion

Laws against Consensual Activities Are Opposed

to the Principles of Private Property,

Free Enterprise, Capitalism, and the Open Market

Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities

is Very Expensive

Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities

Destroys People's Lives

Intermission to Part II

Consensual Crimes Encourage Real Crimes

Consensual Crimes Corrupt Law Enforcement

The Cops Can't Catch 'Em; the Courts Can't

Handle 'Em; the Prisons Can't Hold 'Em

Consensual Crimes Promote Organized Crime

Consensual Crimes Corrupt the

Freedom of the Press

Laws against Consensual Activities

Teach Irresponsibility

Laws against Consensual Activities Are

Too Randomly Enforced to Be Either

a Deterrent or Fair

Laws against Consensual Activities

Discriminate against the Poor, Minorities, and Women

Problems Sometimes Associated with

Consensual Activities Cannot Be Solved

While They Are Crimes

Laws against Consensual Activities Create

a Society of Fear, Hatred, Bigotry, Oppression,

and Conformity; a Culture Opposed to

Personal Expression, Diversity, Freedom,

Choice and Growth

PART III

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CONSENSUAL CRIMES

A Closer Look at the Consensual Crimes

Gambling

Drugs



Religious and Psychologically Therapeutic

Use of Drugs

Regenerative Use of Drugs and

Other Unorthodox Medical Practices

Prostitution

Pornography, Obscenity, Etc.



Violations of Marriage; Adultry, Fornication

Cohabitation, Bigamy, and Polygamy

Homosexuality

Unconventional Religious Practices

Unpopular Religious Practices

Suicide and Assisted Suicide

The Titanic Laws: Public Drunkenness, Loitering,

Vagrancy, Seat Belts, Motorcycle Helmets,

Public Nudity, Transvestism

PART IV

SIX CHAPTERS IN SEARCH OF A SHORTER BOOK

The Enlightenment or We Wer So Much Older Then;

We're Younger Than That Now

Prohibition: A Lesson in the Futility (and Danger) of Prohibiting

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What Jesus and the Bible Really Said about Consensual Crimes

Traditional Family Values

Putting the "Problem" in Perspective

Hypocrites

PART V

WHAT TO DO?

Education, Not Legislation

A Call to My Media Brethren

Protective Technology

Hemp for Victory

A State-By-State Look at Consensual Crime

We Must All Hang Together

The Politics of Change

About the Author

Acknowledgments





Copyright © 1996 Peter McWilliams & Prelude Press