Crime to Distribute Publications “Belittling the Traditional American Institutions or Folkways”

From Ormond Beach, Florida Code of Ordinances § 14-13(b):

It shall be unlawful for any person to import, print, exhibit, publish, sell, lease, distribute or circulate any obscene publication, or any publication describing or portraying acts of sadism, propaganda against or belittling the traditional American institutions or folkways, sympathy with crime and the criminal as against law and justice, criminals and criminal acts as being attractive ….

It’s a 1958 ordinance, and I suspect it hasn’t been much enforced recently, but even under First Amendment law as of 1958 it should have been clear (and was to some) that this law is unconstitutional.

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