Public Domain As World of Wonder writer Trey Speegle reported earlier, on Friday, a federal judge in Texas sided with Christian … [Read more...]
#WomensHistoryMonth: Margaret Sanger Takes On the “Comstock Law”
Anthony Comstock via Wikimedia Commons On March 3,1873, Congress Enacted the Comstock Law. This is an era, a long time ago, when powerful men found it okay to tell women what they could do with their bodies, and what people could do in the privacy of their homes. The … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay: 1873, Congress Enacts the “Comstock Act”
March 3,1873 – Congress Enacts the Comstock Law The Comstock Law was a federal act for the "Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use". The Act criminalized the use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items: … [Read more...]
