With the only hot air in Washington being the temperature, the health debate is not making the airwaves, at least for the day, not much happening, it is Sexy Sunday, but this sunday it is about what is right.

As reported in Reuters:

Sudan has barred Lubna Hussein, a woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers in violation of decency laws, from traveling abroad, she said Tuesday.Hussein said she tried to leave for Lebanon Tuesday after a television channel asked her to appear in a program there.

Hussein was arrested at a party in July and, with 12 other women, charged with being indecently dressed. A former reporter, Hussein has publicized her case, posing in loose trousers for photos and calling journalists to support her.

Women’s groups, and protestors supporting Hussein at a hearing last week, have complained the law gives no clear definition of indecency and gives individual police officers the power to decide whether or not a woman is indecently dressed.

Her defense lawyer Nabil Adib Abdalla told Reuters that Hussein, who is on bail, should be free to travel. To bar her from travel, he said a court would have to issue a specific order and Hussein would have the right to challenge it.

Ten of the other women arrested with Hussein have pleaded guilty and have been whipped, Hussein previously said.

Hussein’s hearing has been adjourned to September 7. The judge said this was to investigate whether Hussein has immunity from prosecution because she was working as a press officer for the United Nations at the time of her arrest.

I realize that it is the custom in this country or that…but come on….should not there be more to worry about than a woman in pants?  Sorry, but I just do not see that as something that is that pressing or that important.