11. On Tuesday 9 February 1989 the jury found Gibson and Sylveire guilty of outraging public decency . 12. Jurczynski, Schenectady's mayor, argues that he was just trying to protect public decency . 13. But the conviction raises the question : Does public decency outweigh a man's uncivil rights? 14. The Erie council patterned the law after an Indiana public decency statute that banned all public nudity. 15. Today spitting is regarded as more a violation of public decency than a threat to public health. 16. In some cases, homosexuals are prosecuted under vaguely worded " public decency " or morality laws. 17. Opposition to the braless movement ironically viewed it as an attack to American morals and public decency . 18. He was also charged with one count of outraging public decency and five of inciting gross indecency. 19. Stringent censorship in Singapore preserves public decency , the city-state's information minister said Wednesday. 20. (Censorship ) is to preserve a level of public decency , which the society is comfortable with,