perfidy

From the NYT via talkleft:

The Alabama House voted against a bill Tuesday that would have removed a ban on sexual devices, such as vibrators, from the state's obscenity law. .... A federal district judge in Birmingham has twice ruled that the ban is unconstitutional. The first ruling was overturned by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the second ruling has been appealed to the appeals court.

....The sponsor of the bill, Rep. John Rogers, D-Birmingham, said because of the court ruling, the obscenity law is unenforceable as long as it contains the ban on sex toys....With little serious discussion, the House voted 37-28 to leave the sex toys ban in state law, leaving Rogers standing at the microphone shaking his head.
"What you just did is make our obscenity law illegal. You voted for obscenity,'' Rogers shouted at lawmakers.

G'hyuk!

[update] Eugene Volokh thinks I and others are being to hard on the Alabama Legislature, pointing out that the Federal court decision only invalidated the sex toy section of the law, explicitly leaving the rest alone. Though Mr. Volokh may be correct, as usual, I stand by my derisive g'hyuk! analysis as the Alabama legislature has nevertheless voted to ban sex toys. How silly, I say!