sxnahm@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Nahm) (06/12/84)
NOTICE TO ALL READERS IN THE DELAWARE-MARYLAND-VIRGINIA AREA
The latest "Capitol Sun" (local Naturist Society chapter
newsletter) reports that the Accomac County, Virginia Board of
Supervisors is considering an ordinace prohibiting public nudity.
The clothing optional beach on Assateague Island (within the
Chincoteague Fish and Wildlife Reserve) is located in Accomac
County, and U.S. F & W officials intend to enforce the ordinance
if enacted.
The board is meeting on June 20 at 7:15 pm at the Board of
Supervisors' Chambers in Accomac. Volunteers to attend the
meeting are being solicited by Turner Stokes, National Capitol
Naturists coordinator. Letters to the supervisors are also being
encouraged. I can provide interested people with a list of the
supervisor's names and addresses.
I consider the clothing optional beach at Assateague a real
treasure. Surely the people supporting this ordinance have never
visited the beach to see that it is orderly and frequented by
families and couples willing to trek three kilometers to enjoy the
ocean and sunshine.
Here is one annoying paragraph of the proposed ordinance:
(C) Nothing contained in this Ordinance shall be construed to apply to the
exhibition, presentation, showing or performance of any play, ballet, drama,
tableau, production or motion picture in any theater, concert hall, museum of
fine arts, school, institution of higher learning or other similar
establishment which is pimarily devoted to such exhibitions, presentations,
shows or performances as a form of expression of opinion, communication,
speech, ideas, information, art or drama, as differentiated from commercial or
business advertising, promotion of (sic) exploitation of nudity for the purpose
of advertising, promoting, selling or serving products or services or otherwise
advancing the economic welfare of a commercial or business enterprise, such as
a hotel, motel, bar, nightclub, restaurant, tavern or dance hall.
Why, I ask, would a body recognize nudity as a form of "art"
and yet seek to eliminate it from "life" (in Accomac County)? I
can send the full text of the ordinance to those interested.
Anyone interested in volunteering to take an active role in
fighting this ordinance, or if anyone can make donantions for
expenses of the fight, please call Turner Stokes at (703)
777-4611, or mail to NCN, P.O. Box 3122, Fairfax, Va. 22038.
Don't let them constrain our freedom!
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Steve Nahm
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