Did you know that Seattle Children’s Hospital, Group Health, Microsoft, Amazon, Fred Meyer, Nordstrom, Alaska Airlines, BECU, T-Mobile, Starbucks, TJ Maxx, Google, Whole Foods, Safeway, Macy’s, the Seattle Storm, KISSFM, KUBE93fm, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Holland America, Liberty Mutual, J.P. Morgan, etc., apparently endorse indecent exposure?
Well, they must based on their sponsorship of this coming Sunday’s Seattle Pride Parade.
In case you don’t know what constitutes indecent exposure, here is how RCW 9A.88.010 of the Washington Legislature defines it: “(1) A person is guilty of indecent exposure if he or she intentionally makes any open or obscene exposure of his or her person or the person of another knowing that such conduct is likely to cause reasonable affront or alarm.”
Gee, do you think a grandmother walking with her little granddaughter down the public streets of Seattle this Sunday might be a bit offended to have some lewd “adult” wag his/her private parts in front of her and her grandchild?
Body paint, baloney. We all know what this exhibition is about … anything to get attention.
Consider that this same RCW says that “Indecent exposure is a gross misdemeanor on the first offense if the person exposes himself or herself to a person under the age of fourteen years… Indecent exposure is a class C felony if the person has previously been convicted under this section or of a sex offense as defined in RCW 9.94A.030.”
Nancy Kasper
Bothell
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