The following report is by Euro News:
A French woman has won a lawsuit permitting women to go topless at public pools in Berlin.
In 2022, Gabrielle Lebreton, a French woman who has lived in the German capital for over a decade, sued the state of Berlin claiming she’d been discriminated against when she was asked to cover up by security guards at the Plansche pool in the Treptow-Köpenick district.
Lebreton was with her five-year-old son when she was asked to leave the pool. She pointed out that several men were not considered naked despite only wearing swimming bottoms, but the police were called and she was ejected from the premises.
Although she said she was aware of the social differences in topless men and women in Germany, she told Die Zeit at the time that:
For me – and I teach this to my son – no, there is no such difference. For both men and women, the breast is a secondary sexual characteristic but men have the freedom to remove their clothes when it is hot and women do not.
While the pool changed its policy afterwards, Lebreton has challenged the state of Berlin over a 2020 law against discrimination.
The Berliner Baederbetriebe, which runs the city’s pools, has responded this week by agreeing with Lebreton’s case, forcing public pools to all permit women to sunbathe and swim topless.
The ombudsperson’s office very much welcomes the decision of the Baederbetriebe, because it establishes equal rights for all Berliners, whether male, female or non-binary, and because it also creates legal certainty for the staff at the Baederbetriebe.
Doris Liebscher, the head of the ombudsperson’s office, said
Berlin is just the latest German city to follow suit with more relaxed dress codes in pools. In 2022, Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia and Göttingen in Lower Saxony introduced topless swimming in public pools.
Also last year, Hanover changed its regulations to require only “primary sex organs” to be covered in pools.
In private pools like at Vabali, a chain of spas in Berlin and Hamburg, guests are required to go without any swimming costumes, with only towels permitted in the bathing spaces.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Proverbs 11:22
The West has turned into lands of heathen and whores. No standards, no morality, no integrity, no dignity, no truth, no wisdom, no decency, no charity, and on and on. It’s just so disgusting.
As of 2019 there are six U.S. states that allow women to go topless wherever. These include Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma. It’s part of the “#FreeTheNipple” movement on social media at the time.
Everybody should be able to be comfortable on a hot day and if that means taking their shirt of so be it. No matter how you look, you should have the same freedom at the person next to you. And it’s also about equality. Addressing small parts of inequality can make a big difference in how people are treated on a day to day basis, and I thought free the nipple was just one small step closer to how it should be.
Brit Hoagland, a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against Fort Collins that being able to walk around bare-chested is a step towards gender equality
The idea that women’s bodies are purely sexual is something that, it was perpetrated by this law. By getting rid of this law, we are saying women are more than just a sexual object and their bodies are more than just a sexual object. They’re human beings just like men.
Attorney Andy McNulty, who represented Hoagland and another plaintiff in the lawsuit, said
No, you whorish dogs: you are ASKING to be sexualized! Because – NEWS FLASH – there are horndog men on there, a lot of them, when they see a woman not wearing a lot to get attention, that man thinks she’s inviting them to come and “get some.” Fact. But we live in a perverted and disgusting society anymore, where anything and everything is accepted.
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According to Romans 3:31, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.” Though we are under New Testament liberty and grace, and not saved by the law in any manner, what God still calls sin is sin; and the law very clearly condemns nakedness, wherefore carries over and is applicable to today. See Leviticus 18.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Where I live, not one but TWO billboards are advertising strip clubs! Just out in the open for everybody to see and get perverted or further perverted.
God’s judgement is coming to Laredo, Texas and pray that it happens!
Even so, come Lord Jesus.