Banning the Teaching of Evolution

[Jim Maule]

Michael McConnell <michael.mcconnell at LAW.UTAH.EDU> writes

> Ideas of decency in dress are entirely conventional; there
> are no "rational" standards (which is not to say that it is
> irrational to have standards of decency in dress).
Except when it requires putting "wraps" on piano legs (a common
Victorian custom) -- which probably serves to prove your point about
the cultural basis of dress laws but also shows that culture can
change and quickly. I wonder, though, whether dress laws are totally
devoid of religious influence.....

Jim Maule
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