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House floor debate centers on amendment to bar government funding of ‘obscene’ performances
Summary
Members debated an amendment that would bar government entities from funding or otherwise enabling performances the bill labels obscene; speakers clashed over First Amendment implications and enforcement mechanisms.
Members of the Indiana House spent an extended period debating an amendment that would add an enforcement mechanism to language barring government entities from funding obscene performances.
Representative Ireland, the amendment’s author, said the change ‘‘provides just a simple mechanism to enforce that language’’ in the bill and was intended to prevent taxpayer dollars from supporting obscene performances. Ireland said criminal prohibitions on…
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