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Should Prostitution Be Legal Everywhere In The U.S. ?
American Power: Prostitution, Biology, Morality, and the Law
Frankly, prostitution's not something that seems clean and respectabe. Even if it was legal, I'd guess most self-esteeming people would have qualms about s**-trading simply on the basis of Judeo-Christain ethics. …
Why is Prostitution Illegal, but Pornography is Not? « The Legal …
Paying someone to have s** in a film requires us to determine whether the payment makes the otherwise-legal intercourse “prostitution” or not. The court started with the correct presumption — that the film was expressive …
As of now, each state in the U.S. has the right to decide whether or not prostitution is legal in that state and in which part of that state, but it is illegal in every state with the exception of Nevada, and even there it is forbidden in many parts of the state.
Prostitution has existed for time immemorial and making it illegal won’t prevent it.
It’s legal in many first world countries, and prostitutes pay taxes and feel much safer.
I imagine that many Christians would object to legalizing prostitution but Jesus said things such as:
I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you (NIV).
Matthew 21:31
And examine Jesus’s own words closely.
HE said that the tax collectors and the prostitutes “are” entering the kingdom of God” and didn’t say, “will be” so there is no suggestion of repentance.
Surely decriminalization of prostitution would be good for all concerned except for pimps who inflict violence and extort money, and a percentage of the money not extorted by them would be used for paying taxes which is something that the country is desperately short of right now.
Was The Forbidden Fruit Really An Apple?
Art by Mary Rochelle Burnham: A Study of Values
"Apple symbolizes wisdom, because in the Bible, it is the fruit of the tree "that gives the knowledge of what is good and what is evil"1(Genesis 2:9), which Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat. God had said "You may eat the fruit …
“Forbidden fruit” – you want it because you shouldn't have it! | My …
mychinaconnection.com11/30/11
The phrase “forbidden fruit” comes to us from the Bible, from the Book of Genesis. When God created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, he placed a tree in the Garden of Eden to test them. The term “forbidden fruit” is …
Did Eve Offer Adam An Apple?
It’s commonly believed that Eve tempted Adam with an apple but I can’t find anything in my bible to suggest that the fruit in question was an apple.
Was it an apple, and if not, then why did people like John Milton explicitly use the word apple?
