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To: Phantom Lord
Prostitution is nothing more than sex and commerce.

You forgot the adjectives which qualify the nouns.

Try the following quote:

It is like having a morality in which stealing fruit is considered wrong -- unless you steal nectarines.

And if you protest against this view you are usually met with chatter about the legitimacy and beauty and sanctity of "sex" and accused of harbouring some Puritan prejudice against it as something disreputable or shameful. I deny the charge. Foam-born Venus . . . golden Aphrodite . . . Our Lady of Cyprus . . . I never breathed a word against you. If I object to boys who steal my nectarines, must I be supposed to disapprove of nectarines in general? Or even of boys in general? It might, you know, be stealing that I disapproved of.

The real situation is skillfully concealed by saying that the question of Mr. A.'s "right" to desert his wife is one of "sexual morality". Robbing an orchard is not an offense against some special morality called "fruit morality". It is an offense against honesty. Mr. A.'s action is an offense against good faith (to solemn promises), against gratitude (toward one to whom he was deeply indebted) and against common humanity.

From C.S. Lewis, We Have No 'Right To Happiness'

Full Disclosure: Reading your comments on this topic causes me to consider the possibility of double entendres in your tagline.

Cheers!

218 posted on 05/09/2007 11:04:33 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers; Phantom Lord
Try the following quote:

Try this one:

I quite agree with the Archbishop that no sin, simply as such, should be made a crime. Who the deuce are our rulers to enforce their opinions about sin on us? --- a lot of professional politicians, often venal time-servers, whose opinion on a moral problem in one's own life we should attach very little value to.

Letters of C.S. Lewis


350 posted on 05/10/2007 3:07:23 PM PDT by JTN ("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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