(September 2, 2015 at 12:56 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(September 2, 2015 at 8:49 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Whether something is legal and whether it is moral are two separate questions. There are many things that I think are profoundly immoral and yet I would not criminalize them (like drug use). Likewise there are many laws that I feel are necessary (like many traffic laws and some building codes) that really have no moral component.
Yes, I have a pretty libertarian view on some things. If you're not hurting/endangering anyone else, I don't think the government needs to get involved. I think drug use and prostitution should be legal, despite how much I'm against those things. I just tell myself that us people of faith should answer to a higher law, regardless of what man's law is.
I wouldn't go so far as legalizing prostitution. It would become too easy for wicked people to legally exploit vulnerable and desperate people. Also, human trafficking, pimping, and pedophilia would be too easy to conceal from "regulators" and law-enforcement. I don't think trying to emulate the Bunny Ranch nationally would work. Those abuses seem to invariably accompany prostitution.
