Sierra Faith

Joe Carter discusses Prostitution and the Pollution of Moral Ecology and references clear reasoning from Robert George:

Assuming, again, that prostitution is indeed immoral, then the availability of prostitutes is going to facilitate immoral acts by individuals–prostitutes and their customers. Of course, the commercial sex acts will likely take place in “private,” that is, behind closed doors and it could be the case that there is no highly visible publicizing of the prostitutes’ availability (though unless there is some way of getting the word out publicly, there won’t be much work for the prostitutes). Still, public interests are damaged. The public has an interest in men not engaging prostitutes: for when they do, they damage their own characters; they render themselves less solid and reliable as husbands and fathers; they weaken their marriages and their ability to enter into good marriages and authentically model for others (including their own children) the virtue of chastity on which the integrity of marriages and of marriage as an institution in any given society depends; they set bad examples for others. In short they damage what I have referred to as the community’s “moral ecology”–an ecology as vital to the community’s well-being, and as such, as integral to the public interest, as the physical ecology which is protected by environmental laws enacted pursuant to the police powers to protect public health.

Why is this so difficult to understand?

In deference to Joe Carter regret:

The news of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s dalliances with high-priced prostitutes fills me with sadness, regret, and dread. Sadness over the Governor’s shaming his family in such a public way, regret at having to listen to the smirking schadenfreude of his political enemies, and dread that we’ll have to suffer the tedious and inevitable articles and blog posts asking, “What’s the problem with prostitution?”

Schadenfreude is hereby banned.

UPDATE:

Michelle Malkin surveys the bi-partisan call for Spitzer to go.

Hugh Hewitt highlights Carol Platt Liebau who discusses the disturbing trend of politicians thinking they do not need to live by the rules they make.

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