YAWN: Another Washington Sex Scandal

[Ibby]

I'm sorta with Elspode. I wouldn't care at all who they slept with...

...except that they want to tell ME who to sleep with.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Ibram

I'm sorta with Elspode. I wouldn't care at all who they slept with...

...except that they want to tell ME who to sleep with.

Oh, karma, how you make my world so entertaining!

PBS: But with regard to prostitutes and sex workers in developing countries, is it necessary to work with them? Do you try to get them to change behavior? And if they don't, then what?

TOBIAS: First of all, very recently I was in Haiti in a program where we are working with prostitutes, teaching them skills that will give them the economic leverage to get out of prostituting. The particular program that I visited, young women were being taught the skills of being beauticians, of doing cosmetic work and hair work and that kind of thing. Now, none of these young women were saying, "I don't want to work with this non-governmental organization because they have a policy opposing prostitution." Quite the contrary. These young women were people who wanted to get out of prostitution. So there's nothing about our policy of requiring organizations to oppose prostitution and sex trafficking that in any way gets in our way of working with people who have been traced, or people who are in prostitution, trying to get them out of it. …

PBS: But is there a moral quotient, a moral factor in your prevention work?

TOBIAS: There's a certain moral aspect to it, but the principal focus of what we're doing here is to carry out the prevention program that is at the heart of this program, which is abstinence, be faithful, and the correct and consistent use of condoms, driven by the fact that from a public health perspective, those are the components that really make the most sense.

[Shawnee123]

All the furor over some sex; I don't get it. Heck, if I were to manage to have sex there would probably be a ticker-tape parade in town.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It just breaks my heart to see yawn and sex in the same sentence.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It just breaks my heart to see yawn and sex in the same sentence.

Shoulda been Yet Another Washington Nookiefest.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Say... you live in DC. Are you getting in on all this action going on down there?

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Say... you live in DC. Are you getting in on all this action going on down there?

At $300 an hour? I doub... heyyyyy, waiiiiiit a minute... Crikey! I GOT it!!

Hey, HM, where's a good place in DC to buy a wig 'n some lipstick???

[Happy Monkey]

A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Do they kiss and pay?

[Happy Monkey]

Escorts don't kiss, and I'm no gentleman, so it all works out.

Perhaps... but I don't see them projecting it on others in the way xians do.
They leave it in their own home where it belongs.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Oh, I see. Jewish, Muslim, Buddist, et al, people don't consider whether a candidate is divorced, gay, a philanderer, or whatever. Right.

I don't think as much, or in the same way that xians do. No.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Oh, I know you don't think so. But that's because you've got some kind of notion that all Christians, and apparently Jews, etc, etc, think alike. That's your mistake.

From this site

76.5% of American adults are Christian (52% Protestant; 24.5% Catholic).
14.1% do not follow any organized religion; they are Agnostics, Atheists, Humanists, Secularists, or have no religious affiliation.
1.3% are Jewish.
0.5% are Muslim, followers of Islam.
0.5% are Buddhist.
0.4% are Hindu.
0.3% are Unitarian Universalist.
0.1% are Neopagan (Druids, Pagans, Wiccans, etc)
There are many more small religions, each of whom are followed by fewer than 0.1% of American adults.

But ABC news says, "Generally, 59 percent say abortion should be legal in all or most cases,"

And the S.F.Chronicle reports a March 8-12, Pew national survey;

51 percent opposed same-sex marriage and 39 percent supported it.
Allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt children -- 46 percent in favor, 48 percent opposed.

None of those numbers jibe with any religion. Must be people deciding on other than strictly religious grounds because I don't see any correlation. Do you?

So, some Christians have a brain about some things. This is supposed to impress me? They still believe in the tooth fairy.
This says what about how they will vote for a gay candidate that is clearly the best black woman for the job?