Texas house passes bill to ban "sexy" cheerleading

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Unfortunately, this is not a joke, but further evidence of the right's ongoing sexual obsessions, translated into "legislation:"

Cheerleader bill passes House

By: Hermelinda Vargas

Cheerleaders are used to getting attention but nothing like the attention they'll get if the Senate follows the House's lead on a bill that would outlaw any move considered to be sexually suggestive or provocative.

"The bill would require ultimately that we stop exploiting our young girls," bill sponsor Rep. Al Edwards, D-Houston.

Before the bill bill got to the House floor many members considered it a joke. Edwards even shared in some of the laughs just hours before the House passed the bill 65-56. But it turns out Edwards is serious.

"Some of this is a distraction and we see that as a result more of our young girls being pregnant in middle and high schools, dropping out of school, having babies, and contracting AIDS and herpes," Edwards said.

Opponents to the idea of legislating dance moves are also serious. Dead serious. "I don't know how this bill got to the floor. It's a stupid! and it's insulting. It's insulting to this body and insulting to the people of the state of Texas for us to be taking the time up here on this kind of horseplay," Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, said.

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