'Vagina' Sign Upsets Father Of 9-Year-Old
A Monte Vista, Colo., father is upset over the use of the world "vagina" on a recent Adams State College theater marquee and wants the Alamosa City Council to reconsider its city sign ordinance.
The sign advertised a show called "The Vagina Monologues" that played at the college recently.
Audie Joe Zinn told the Alamosa Valley Courier that he feels the college overstepped its bounds.
Zinn said his 9-year-old daughter saw the sign and asked him what it meant.
He said he understands First Amendment rights, but the sign raises a different issue.
"My objection is the fact I feel our children's rights are being violated by public display of obscenity," Zinn told the Courier. "I have a choice where I send my daughter to college. I have a choice what she sees on TV ... I can turn the TV off, disconnect the cable ... But when we are driving to go shopping somewhere and she sees it on a public street, I don't have control over that."
He told the City Council that the sign was inappropriately displayed, visible from where children could see it.
"I have a choice where I send my daughter to college. I have a choice what she sees on TV ... I can turn the TV off, disconnect the cable ... But when we are driving to go shopping somewhere and she sees it on a public street, I don't have control over that," said Zinn.
Zinn wants the City Council to write an ordinance that would restrict the verbiage of signs in Alamosa. The council tabled the request.
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