The Indiana state legislature passed a bill to ban government funded obscene performances. This would apply to sexually erotic performances, defined in state law as catering solely to sexual interests without any literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. These are already illegal in the state, but it hasn’t stopped government funding, at least at the federal level of these types of performances. An interesting twist in the bill is that it allows citizens to sue a government entity if it is found to use tax dollars to fund such a performance. Democrats were opposed to the bill. But in a day when we’ve lost a moral compass, when egregious moral boundaries are egregiously broken, and our moral sensibilities are offended, the Indiana legislature is hitting the reset button.
