Lawmaker seeks to end "sexy" Cheerleading

give me a frickin break.. is THIS what our tax money is being spent on? and our education system is in such bad shape and now they want to penalize them if their performances are "too sexy" who determines what is too sexy? it's kind of like judging ice skating competitions, it's all subjective to whoever is judging..
I am so tired of people trying to legislate morality.. The decline of this nation (which is of course the fault of us gay people) it's about the economy stoopid!
Women had to go to work to be able to help support the family.. then we complained because we had lachkey kids, and as the economy got worse, the family got worse, because people were forced to be out of their homes for an extended period of time, less time with the family you see.. Then these senators and congressmen, many who are on their 3rd or 4th or 5th marriage.. want to tell us what is wrong with society, they are part of the problem.. but they want to blame it on anything but what the problem is.. the economy. Unless I am married to someone who makes scads of money, I couldn't stay at home with my kids if I wanted to..
Why can't the legislators work on somethings that are actually WRONG with this country.. like medicare, social security, homeland security (or lack thereof) and other things too numerous to name, instead of worrying about constitutional amendments, and whether an episode of "angel" breaks some FCC regulation on indecency.. I saw janet jackson's breast.. it did not mentally scar me..
I was reading something posted in the break room yesterday about "If you lived through 1960's or 1970's you lived through lead, lawn darts, you played outside every summer from the time you got up till the sun went down.. we didn't have video games, or worry about obesity or anything like that.. things were so much different.. anyway.. I realize that this is a state and local issue in this particular case, but I think that it permeates our legislative system at the moment.I was reading through a list of things that had been cleared by the FCC recently and it was obnoxious.
In December, MediaWeek obtained an in-house FCC report that estimated that the Parents Television Council was responsible for 99.8 percent of all indecency complaints that were investigated by the agency. Such statistics prompted critics to accuse outgoing FCC boss Michael Powell of allowing a special-interest group to drive the agency's agenda, allegations that he denied.
Of course he denied them.. what was he supposed to do say "hell yeah! I let em do it and I would let em do it all again!"
It's money wasting thigns like this that annoy me.. as apparently so many things do these days.. but not in a crazy ted kazynzki kinda of way.. :) so don't anybody worry.


AUSTIN (March 18) - The Friday night lights in Texas could soon be without bumpin' and grindin' cheerleaders.
"It's just too sexually oriented, you know, the way they're shaking their behinds and going on, breaking it down," said Edwards, a 26-year veteran of the Texas House. "And then we say to them, 'don't get involved in sex unless it's marriage or love, it's dangerous out there' and yet the teachers and directors are helping them go through those kind of gyrations."

Under Edwards' bill, if a school district knowingly permits such a performance, funds from the state would be reduced in an amount to be determined by the education commissioner.

Edwards said he filed the bill as a result of several instances of seeing such ribald performances in his district.

J.M. Farias, owner of Austin Cheer Factory, said cheerleading aficionados would welcome the law. Cheering competitions, he said, penalize for suggestive movements or any vulgarity.

"Any coaches that are good won't put that in their routines," he said. And, most girls cheering on Friday nights were trained by professionals who know better, he said.

"I don't think this law would really shake the industry at all. In fact, it would give parents a better feeling, mostly dads and boyfriends, too," Farias said.

Although cheerleaders must meet the same no-pass, no-play academic requirements of athletes, cheerleading is not a competition sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League, the governing body of Texas high school sports.

The UIL also does not have performance regulations for squads who cheer for their teams at state championships, said Athletic Coordinator Peter Contreras.

"I think it should have been cut out a long time ago," Edwards said. "It surely needs to be toned down."