Under Georgia law, it is illegal to use "obscene and vulgar or profane language in the presence of a female or of a male under the age of 14." No mere remnant of the past, the law was enacted in 1968; now, by a 6-1 vote, the Georgia Supreme Court has upheld its constitutionality. The case at issue: an eleven-year-old girl went up to a car that had stopped in her neighborhood. "Have you ever been laid?" the driver asked. She immediately walked across the street, memorized the license, went home and wrote the number down. Traced, identified by the girl...
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