>Would you seriously defend an article that discusses this as "factually accurate"?
Is it not factually accurate? Could local law enforcement not arrest you for doing it and subject you to a trial or try to coerce you into a plea bargain, if they didn't mind the response from the public or the courts?
Moreover, would you not oppose an effort to remove such a law from the books? How do you imagine anyone would lobby for that to happen without discussing it?