Nude photo scandal costs officials their jobs

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

The police chief, the mayor and a councilman in this small town resigned amid an uproar over nude photos of the chief's 300-pound, tattooed wife that she posted on a Web site.

Dozens of residents of the town of 1,500 had demanded Police Chief Tod Ozmun resign, and the district attorney recommended an obscenity investigation, but the City Council decided last week that the pictures were protected by the First Amendment.

On Friday, Ozmun, Mayor Dale Moore and Councilman Clifford Barnard said they were stepping down because they were fed up with the public attention and criticism of the chief. Another council member resigned earlier over the council's support of Ozmun.

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"They have no morals as far as I'm concerned," said Shirley Anderson, who served as mayor in the 1990s and whose husband was mayor before that. "You should have respectable people in office. They need to go somewhere else where this is accepted."

Cristen Edgar, a 16-year-old high school student, said: "I don't think it's right for him to be the chief of police and for his wife to be doing what she's doing."

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You know, I'm tempted to simply dismiss this as the rantings of a bunch of stupid fucking Okies, but given that this kind of thing seems to be occurring more frequently these days, I wonder if I ought to be worrying about it. Of course, the bottom line here is that we live in the 21st century, the human body is beautiful, sex is natural and wonderful, you know, all that good modern stuff that essentially means these Puritans are big fucktards. But put all that into the context of the Conservative Movement, which puts their warped reading of the Bible over science and good sense, pushes a dangerous anti-condom agenda, impeached a President over his own personal business, and on and on, and it becomes increasingly clear that we may be in for trouble over the next few years.

I know what I'm going to do the next time somebody in my presence negatively criticizes sexuality or nudity: I'm going to call him a big dumb cunt-face.

Unless, you know, it's my parents. In that case, I'll just tell them I think they're wrong.

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