Ohio ACLU Board should denounce "restrooms" brief or resign
Zanesville, OH 1/18/07 - Jeanette Moll, conservative Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio's 18th Congressional District, today called on Ohio ACLU leaders to denounce a brief filed in the Senator Larry Craig case where the group claims that homosexual sex in a public bathroom stall is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief in defense of disgraced Senator Larry Craig which states that people who have sex in a public bathroom stall have a reasonable expectation of privacy and cannot be prosecuted. They contend that Craig couldn't have attempted to engage an undercover officer in sex in public, as the stall is a private space.
Moll, an attorney and former Magistrate Judge, said the position of the ACLU is an insult to common sense and dangerous to Ohio families.
"Larry Craig was a public official soliciting another public official in the bathroom of a public facility - what exactly does the ACLU see as private in the whole matter?" Moll asked.
Moll, a mother of five and former Sunday school teacher, says the time is now to draw a line in the sand against perversion of the constitution and she is asking the board of directors of the Ohio Chapter of the ACLU to denounce these group's legal argument or resign.
"The ACLU should be defending the rights of mothers to send their young sons into public mens rooms without worrying that they will be exposed to public sex acts," said Moll. "For the ACLU to equate public bathroom sex with freedom of religion and other constitutional protections is an outrage."
Moll has sent letters to each member of the Ohio ACLU board of directors asking them to either denounce the stance or resign.
"As a lawyer, I know the law - and this issue doesn't even deserve consideration in the same realm as our constitutional freedoms of speech or religion," said Moll. "But more importantly, as a mother I'm appalled that the ACLU has chosen to make a claim that is so outrageously dangerous to children and families everywhere."
Moll is a wife and mother of two daughters and adoptive mother of three children adopted through Muskingum County Children's Services, Moll has focused much of her life on family, faith and community.
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