legalizing
prostitution
Re: Human Trafficking (Nov/Dec
2009)
I agree wholeheartedly that
we “also have to start, as Chris-
tians, doing more” to
fight human traffick-
ing. “Not only the
words; it has to be
the deeds…What do
you do with the dark-
ness? You reveal it.”
As you may know,
Canada’s Criminal
Code provisions on
prostitution (operat-
ing a bawdy house,
living off the avails,
etc.) are currently
being challenged
in both Ontario and British Col-
umbia. If the sex-trade workers in
these cases are successful in hav-
ing the provisions struck down,
the consequences will be dire.
Faith Today readers who desire to answer the call to action
can begin by praying for the
decisions in these cases as well
as for those already involved in
prostitution. They can also support the government’s position
to uphold [both]the existing
laws and those organizations
already engaged in this issue
in Canada. Finally, it is critical
that readers become educated
on this issue so that they may
be able to minister to those in
need, in particular those who
are victimized by the process.
Thank you for sharing the
burden for those involved in
prostitution and sex trafficking.
STEPHANIE LUCK,
Research, Director of Operations
Christian Legal Fellowship
London, Ont.
dalai lama
Re: Religion Watch (Nov/Dec
2009)
What’s wrong with Bud-
dhism? Author and English pro-
fessor Joyce Carol Oates sums it
up well in The Journal of Joyce
Carol Oates 1973 –1982 as she
speaks of “The Orient’s holy
men & their visions of the One;
the perfect Buddha mind; a vast
galaxy into which sufferings &
imperfections are tossed. A
kind of indifference, contempt
for what exists. Cynicism. But
its outward face is benign and
holy.”
Further, she says, “I don’t
want to drift into that not-caring
state of mind I was in . . . as a
result of Zen meditation. . . . As
if one were dead. Living, dead.
Dead, living, awake. Eternally
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