Title: Should prostitution be legal?
sf49erfan - March 12, 2008 05:05 PM (GMT)
I've been reading about Eliot Spitzer (and it appears that he'll resign this afternoon). I've got a question: should prostitution be legal?
A person can be paid to have sex and it is legal as long as a camera is rolling (making a pornographic film). But it isn't legal to be paid to have sex without the camera rolling?
I don't get it, shouldn't our laws be consistant?
Maybe all prostitutes should film their encounters and then everything would be fine.
Stringaling - March 12, 2008 05:29 PM (GMT)
Perhaps the question we as Christians should really be asking is "Why is pornography legal?"
sf49erfan - March 12, 2008 05:45 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Stringaling @ Mar 12 2008, 01:29 PM) |
| Perhaps the question we as Christians should really be asking is "Why is pornography legal?" |
Because of the separation of church and state. The people as a whole do not view pornography as sinful and therefore even though Christians do, the government hasn't outlawed it.
Addicted2~Jesus - March 12, 2008 08:15 PM (GMT)
First to answer your question, yes it should be illeagl.
Second... folks have royally fracked up the ideas behind church an state. You do realize that that phrase isn't even in our constituion right? It came off a letter, an for the life of me I cain't member his name off hand, discussin keepin the STATE out of the CHURCH, not the other way round. Porn ought to be illegal to in my opinion, sure folks could argue all day long that they'll jes do it anyways, ok, but that doesn't mean we should make it easier for folks to fall anyways.
Personnaly I think it's a bit to much drama on jes the fact he's involved in prostiution etc etc, he's done far more illegal thins while in office an not jes as govenor but as the DA, he should have been busted long before now, as if this prostituion thin is oh so much more worse then all the other crap he was doin.
sf49erfan - March 12, 2008 08:35 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Addicted2~Jesus @ Mar 12 2008, 04:15 PM) |
First to answer your question, yes it should be illeagl.
Second... folks have royally fracked up the ideas behind church an state. You do realize that that phrase isn't even in our constituion right? It came off a letter, an for the life of me I cain't member his name off hand, discussin keepin the STATE out of the CHURCH, not the other way round. Porn ought to be illegal to in my opinion, sure folks could argue all day long that they'll jes do it anyways, ok, but that doesn't mean we should make it easier for folks to fall anyways.
Personnaly I think it's a bit to much drama on jes the fact he's involved in prostiution etc etc, he's done far more illegal thins while in office an not jes as govenor but as the DA, he should have been busted long before now, as if this prostituion thin is oh so much more worse then all the other crap he was doin. |
The phrase "separation of church and state" is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to a group identifying themselves as the Danbury Baptists. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes:
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| Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. |
Another early user of the term was James Madison, the principal drafter of the United States Bill of Rights, who often wrote of "total separation of the church from the state." "Strongly guarded . . . is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States," Madison wrote, and he declared, "practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government is essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States." This attitude is further reflected in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, originally authored by Thomas Jefferson, but championed by Madison, and guaranteeing that no one may be compelled to finance any religion or denomination.
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| ... no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish enlarge, or affect their civil capacities. |
rasplundjr - March 13, 2008 06:49 PM (GMT)
So technically you could visit a hooker and pay for sex and as long as you're taping it's not prostitution?
rasplundjr - March 13, 2008 06:51 PM (GMT)
well in that train of thought then you could deal with a hooker claim it's a casting audition and you're reimbursing her cab fare..... or she has the job and you're forwarding her first payment for the film....
That's just screwed (sorry wrong choice of words) up
squatpuke - March 14, 2008 12:23 AM (GMT)
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I'M JUST KIDDING.....SHEESH.
Honey - March 14, 2008 12:35 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (squatpuke @ Mar 13 2008, 08:23 PM) |
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I'M JUST KIDDING.....SHEESH. |
EEEEEWWWWWW, you sick PERV!
Yeah right, you're kidding....sicko! :gotcha: