Canadian bishops will continue to oppose prostitution despite ruling

catholicregister.org ^ | January 2, 2014 | Deborah Gyapong

[oh8eleven]

... creates barriers that prevent them from escaping prostitution and entrenches inequality.
Oops, there's that word again.
What a swell place the world will be when we're all equal.

[jsanders2001]

You expect legislators to uphold prostitution laws when they are whores themselves? Half of them probably use the sevices of prostitutes. When you have rulers that are immoral don’t expect them to side with any legislation that has anything to do with morality or decency...lol

[Jeff Chandler]

How long until speaking out against prostitution becomes a hate crime?

[livius]

How long until speaking out against prostitution becomes a hate crime?

I was wondering that myself. There has always been a tendency (among men, at least!) to romanticize prostitution, that is, the prostitute with a heart of gold, "Pretty Woman," the Hollywood Madam, etc. They also romanticize themselves. Just guys looking for a quick pick-me-up but still just being ok guys.

But what man would like to be a prostitute - having to be sexually used by the violent, brutal, crazy, diseased, ugly (or even nasty Hollywood stars) as a way of making a living?

Most women and boys who "go into" prostitution certainly do not do so voluntarily, but now it's going to become an okay "career choice" and they're probably going to be made to feel that they're inegalitarian and discriminatory for wanting to get out of it.

Combine this with the fact that approval of pedophilia is certainly headed our way and we have a problem. The psychological establishment is now beginning to describe "minor attracted" individuals as simply being born that way, which is the magic formula to get whatever insane thing you want to do legitimized and even enshrined in the law.

[jdege]

Not anything that is wrong should be illegal.

I can see arguments for and against legalizing prostitution, but I think it is entirely appropriate for the Church to continue to oppose it.

I got into an argument, once, with a liberal on the issue of legalizing marijuana. She was in favor, and the libertarian in me was in favor. But I was was the opinion that even if it was legal, companies should still be able to fire people for failing blood tests, and she was horrified by the idea.

It was her opinion that if the government decided that it was legal, than everyone should be required to consider it acceptable. And that, I’m afraid, is what is wrong with liberalism.

[tophat9000]

Whoreaphopic hate speech!

[Salvation]

[Rapscallion]

Just a technicality of course, but what commandment prohibits prostitution?

[FreedomNotSafety]

Spot on! Legal does not mean moral, right, acceptable or even desirable it just means no jail if you do it. On the other morals are not laws nor should they necessarily be so.

[PapaBear3625]

But what man would like to be a prostitute - having to be sexually used by the violent, brutal, crazy, diseased, ugly (or even nasty Hollywood stars) as a way of making a living?

How many women would want to make a living as a coal miner, or many of the other unhealthy, dirty, dangerous, and uncomfortable jobs that men routinely do?

Even with the "women in combat" push, that's mainly so women officers can qualify for high rank, by having been deemed to have served in a "combat arms" branch. If you told women enlistees that they would, in their first six months of enlistment, have to do a tour climbing up and down the mountains of Afghanistan in severe weather, dodging Taliban snipers, female enlistment would drop to close to zero.

[brooklyn dave]

Oh c’mon Mr. Bishop a girl needs to make a buck somehow. no?

[PapaBear3625]

But what man would like to be a prostitute - having to be sexually used by the violent, brutal, crazy, diseased, ugly (or even nasty Hollywood stars) as a way of making a living?

I would add: there are LOTS of male prostitutes, young men and boys who service the AIDS-ridden homosexuals. Many of them are not even gay, but have little choice.

[LastDanceWithMaryJane]

Just a technicality of course, but what commandment prohibits prostitution? Two possible ways to answer this: (1) None of the Ten Commandments does specifically, but the Catechism of the Catholic Church lists sexual sins under the sixth (or seventh, depending on how you do the numbering), Adultery. (2) Just because something isn't forbidden/commanded by the Decalogue doesn't mean that it's moral.

[Lurker]

““How shall we help our brothers and sisters free themselves from the scourge of organized crime?” he asked.”

Quit criminalizing that which doesn’t harm you directly would be a pretty good start.

[Fido969]

Well, then why should only the rich be able to afford prostitutes?

We already have “Obamaphones”, now we can have “Obamawhores.”

Obama will just pay for it by putting on VAT tax as a percentage of the Catholic offering plate.

[elkfersupper]

Just a technicality of course, but what commandment prohibits prostitution?

Excellent question.

[livius]

I think there’s a difference between doing hard work and doing degrading work. Being a coal miner is hard, but it’s not like being screwed (literally) and degraded every day.

Women work hard, too - things like working in laundries, fast food places, factories, etc. But it’s not the same as prostitution.

[livius]

Sexual sins are obviously prohibited, and that would include either using or being a prostitute.

But you’re skipping by the basic question: would you want your daughter to be a prostitute? Or your sister? Or your wife? Or even your son?

[elkfersupper]

But you’re skipping by the basic question: would you want your daughter to be a prostitute? Or your sister? Or your wife? Or even your son?

Well, I probably wouldn't like it, but then again, I don't like my son being a cop.

These are contractual matters between consenting adults and are not anyone else's business.