New Prostitution Poll

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1939282' date='Aug 2 2009, 09:19 PM']I think if the laws are on the books, they should be enforced or repealed.[/quote]

Congress getting together to remove some laws... that would be a dream come true.

[Hassan]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' post='1939299' date='Aug 2 2009, 08:40 PM']Congress getting together to remove some laws... that would be a dream come true.[/quote]
Good luck my friend



Besides, what congressman is going to campaign to repeal bans on adultery.


Can you imaginin what a field day Jon Stewart and the other late night comics would have? Not to mention the ammunition it'd be giving his opponents.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1939236' date='Aug 2 2009, 07:21 PM']Of course prostitution is a social scourge. So is adultery. But do you suggest that adultery be made illegal as well?[/quote]
I'm not contributing to either side of this debate. I'm just pointing out what the CCC said, since it was already quoted, and that particular line had been incidentally missed.

[thessalonian]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1939236' date='Aug 2 2009, 08:21 PM']Of course prostitution is a social scourge. So is adultery. But do you suggest that adultery be made illegal as well?[/quote]


Apparently you want nothing in the sex industry regulated and so you disagree with the magesterium when it says "Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials.". I can't imagine that they would say less about about prostitution. But apparently you think yourself wiser than the Church and the Catechism. What other parts of the Catechism do you question in your infinite wisdom.

[thessalonian]

[quote name='Maggie' post='1939280' date='Aug 2 2009, 09:19 PM']Why have a law against something if it's not going to be enforced? If the state doesn't want to do it they should repeal the law.[/quote]


No they shouldn't. The state as the Catechism says needs to uphold the family. Taking stands against immoraity when secular society discerns it is good. What would be the point of repealing such a law? Moral societies recognize what is right and good. We all know that each law will be enforced at varying levels. Not every murderer is caught so should we remove laws against murder?

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='thessalonian' post='1939457' date='Aug 2 2009, 10:34 PM']Apparently you want nothing in the sex industry regulated and so you disagree with the magesterium when it says "Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials.". I can't imagine that they would say less about about prostitution. But apparently you think yourself wiser than the Church and the Catechism. What other parts of the Catechism do you question in your infinite wisdom.[/quote]

I was already aware of what the Church teaches about pornography being legalized. I do not support the legalization of pornography in any way.

I think the government should exercise strong censorship over all forms of media, especially books. I think, for example, that blasphemy should not be permitted in books or on television. The same goes for pornography.

As to prostitution, regardless of what non-existent teachings you may read into the Catechism, the Church has never stated that prostitution must be illegal. In fact, her greatest sages teach that the state may indeed permit it.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='thessalonian' post='1939086' date='Aug 2 2009, 03:16 PM']Hmmmm. So the thinks pornography should be regulated but not prostitution? I'll think it safe to say that prostitution is an even graver sin and thus don't feel to out of lline saying the Chruch thinks it should be banned.[/quote]

Heresy is a graver sin than either pornography or prostitution, and yet it is often acceptable for the state to tolerate heresy.

"For this reason, while not conceding any right to anything save what is true and honest, she does not forbid public authority to tolerate what is at variance with truth and justice, for the sake of avoiding some greater evil, or of obtaining or preserving some greater good. God Himself in His providence, though infinitely good and powerful, permits evil to exist in the world, partly that greater good may not be impeded, and partly that greater evil may not ensue. In the government of States it is not forbidden to imitate the Ruler of the world; and, as the authority of man is powerless to prevent every evil, it has (as St. Augustine says) to overlook and leave unpunished many things which are punished, and rightly, by Divine Providence." (Pope Leo XII, [i]Libertas[/i], 33)

[Norseman82]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1939247' date='Aug 2 2009, 08:41 PM']Do you think that laws forbidding adultery [i]should[/i] be enforced?[/quote]

Yes. If I have to obey the rules, EVERYONE does.

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='thessalonian' post='1939457' date='Aug 2 2009, 11:34 PM']... But apparently you think yourself wiser than the Church and the Catechism. What other parts of the Catechism do you question in your infinite wisdom.[/quote]

I love it when a fellow Catholic talks like an intolerant fundamentalist. Geeeez.

[pat22]

i wonder why rexi is so interested in prostitution

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='pat22' post='1944086' date='Aug 9 2009, 09:23 AM']i wonder why rexi is so interested in prostitution [/quote]