It's Time to Shut Down
Wisconsin's Tax-Funded Peep Show!

Fact: The Department of Natural Resources is maintaining a nude beach on the Wisconsin River near Mazomanie.

Fact: The DNR nude beach has become a mecca for sexually perverted individuals from across the nation. (See below.)

Fact: Allowing nudity at the Mazo beach area deprives persons opposed to and offended by public nudity equal access to that state property and has had adverse effects on the local population which, according to a recent WCU petition drive, overwhelmingly opposes the clothing optional policy.

Fact: The Mazo beach and surrounding area has a greatly disproportionate amount of sexual crime when compared to other DNR parks of comparable size.

Fact: Wisconsin has strict laws against child pornography; yet at the Mazomanie beach, pedophiles are free to come and look at, even photograph, children. At a recent WCU protest event at the beach, a disproportionate amount of cameras were noted among the beach-goers.

Fact: Notwithstanding any Clintonesque parsing of the law to the contrary, a study of case law history shows public nudity in itself has always been unlawful in Wisconsin.

Fact: The DNR could forbid nudity at the beach through regulation even if the Dane County District Attorney refuses to prosecute those who appear nude in public.

	A transvestite man in a purple dress on the way to the Mazo nude beach, August 28, 1999.

". . . The majority of the pedophile images that we have, the majority of the child pornography that we get out of the United States of America comes from nude beaches. They come, of course, from the private nude beaches because we haven't had that many people that foolish or that foolhardy or that gutless to assign public space for such activity. . . . They are establishing a beachhead [at Mazomanie] for obtaining children for sexual purposes. . . . It will spread all across the state. . . . They establish a beachhead where they figure they can get away with it and then move on to the next step."
Dr. Judith Reisman, internationally renowned child advocate and author of Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences

Mazomanie's Claim to Fame?
"The only 'legal' nude beach in the Midwest"**

Source: Excerpt from page 191 of the book NAKED PLACES: A Guide for Gay Men to Nude Recreation and Travel. Second Edition. Published by Mercury Productions.

Mazo Beach
Directions: From I-90 in southeastern Madison, take Exit 142 and go west on US-12, which is a freeway for about 18 miles (the route will curve to the north after 12 or so miles). After the freeway ends, continue north then northwest on US-12 for about 15 miles. Turn left (west) onto CR-Y and go 5.2 miles, then turn right onto Laws Trail. (Laws Trail makes a loop and intersects CR-Y in 2 places. Take the second entrance onto Laws Trail, just after CR-Y curves sharply to the left and heads south.) Go about 0.25 miles on Laws Trail and bear left onto the gravel conservation road which parallels the river. Park in the lot at the end of the road (or along the road; the small lot fills up quickly) and take the short path that leads to the river. Walk to the left (downstream) along the river, past the willows and the boat ramp, to reach the nude area, which becomes gayer the farther you walk.

Note: This large sandbar on the Wisconsin River, located in the Mazomanie State Wildlife Refuge, is a very popular and hassle-free site for nude recreation. This river is very shallow--good for wading but not for swimming. Volleyball, canoeing, camping, and cookouts are popular on the beach. Mazo draws several hundred people on warm days, and the male and female ratio is about two to one. Most everyone goes nude, and the area is very popular with gay men.

Source: Excerpt from a homosexual "cruising" website

Mazomanie: Mazo Nude Beach. Nude sun bathing and cruisy woods. Nothing better in the Midwest. Most guys will walk upstream from the last parking lot to the bushes there: activity downstream is mostly sun bathers. Mazomanie is off Highway 14 thirty miles west of Madison. Turn right on County "Y" in town, go four miles north, turn left on Laws Drive and left again on a gravel road to reach the beach. Park with all the other cars. Five minutes walk to the gay area."

** Quote from the "gay" newspaper In Step, March 10, 1999.

How To Contact State Officials Regarding Mazomanie Beach

A sexually perverted elite is not only using tax money to maintain a nude beach on the Wisconsin River, but they are also using that beach to bring about a sea change in the law regarding indecent exposure. If the beach at Mazomanie remains "clothing optional," the precedence will have been set for public nudity anywhere in the state and eventually anywhere in the nation. Beyond that, as Christians, we have a duty to uphold God's righteous standard regarding such behavior and to protect the weak and the innocent.

It is very important that as many people as possible write and call the appropriate state officials to demand, not ask, but to demand that the perversion-breeding, child-porn spawning, taxpayer-funded peepshow on the Wisconsin River be eliminated.

Governor Scott McCallum
PO Box 7863
Madison, WI 53702
phone: (608)266-1212 fax: (608)267-8983
email: wisgov@mail.state.wi.us

DNR Secretary Darrell Bazzell
PO Box 7921
Madison, WI 53707
phone: (608)266-2121 fax: (608)267-3579
email: bazzed@dnr.state.wi.us

To write your state representative:
P.O. Box 8952 (last names beginning with A-L)
P.O. Box 8953 (last names beginning with M-Z)
Madison, WI 53708
Rep.lastname@legis.state.wi.us (Example: Rep.hahn@legis.state.wi.us)

To write your state senator:
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707
Sen.lastname@legis.state.wi.us (Example: Sen.chvala@legis.state.wi.us)

Legislative Hotline
1-800-362-9472

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