ACLU: Sex in Public Restrooms is ‘Private’
The American Civil Liberties Union has thrown its support behind Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, arguing that people who have sex in public restrooms have a “reasonable expectation of privacy”.
Senator Craig was arrested on June 11, 2007 and accused of non-verbally inviting an undercover police officer to engage in a sex act in a Minnesota airport bathroom. Craig later plead guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct but is now asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to withdraw his plea.
The ACLU argued that even if Craig was inviting the officer to have sex, his actions wouldn’t be illegal.
“The government cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Senator Craig was inviting the undercover officer to engage in anything other than sexual intimacy that would not have called attention to itself in a closed stall in the public restroom,” the ACLU wrote in its brief. [read more]
ACLU: Sex in restroom stalls is private [via Yahoo News]
In Larry Craig’s Corner, the A.C.L.U. [via NY Times]
