Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do

CONTENTS

Front
AUTHOR'S NOTES
PART I THE BASIC PREMISE
An Overview
What Are Consensual Crimes?
Separation of Society and State
Personal Morality Versus
Governmental Morality
Relationship
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

How and Why Drugs Became Illegal
Opiates
Cocaine, Crack, Amphetamines
Psychedelics
Marijuana

Religious and Psychologically Therapeutic
Use of Drugs
Regenerative Use of Drugs and
Other Unorthodox Medical Practices
Prostitution
Pornography, Obscenity, Etc.

The Problem with Pornography
The Problem with Violence
The Problem with Censorship
The F-WORD

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
What Jesus and the Bible Really Said about Consensual Crimes

Old Testament Admonitions
Jesus of Nazareth and Consensual Crime
Jesus on Sex and Marriage
Jesus and the Separation of Church and State
His Master's Voice?
Jerry & Pat

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

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Last Revision: December 2, 1996