Spitzer's Woes: An Ancient Tale in a Modern World

BGone,

Thanks for your post.

I agree with you.

Regards.

Norrie Hoyt:

In certain areas of the country bootleggers and preachers have a coalition to keep the place dry. Guess why.

Prohibition made Al Capone who would have had a tough time making a living robbing liquor stores a baron operating an illegal liquor supermarket.

Did you notice how folks like Spitzer and Ted Haggard get caught in their own traps? Must be the difference in being the illegal operator and the customer.

You don't suppose Spitzer was getting a "rake" off that and/or other P-ring(s)? Making prostitution, and alcohol and drugs..., illegal increases profits and generally shuts out legitimate business-folk out limiting competition so he had every reason to do that if he was in on the take.

Interesting how the RC church said it was OK for French prostitutes to put their earnings on "the plate" as long as they were sorry of course.

Thank you for posting an honest article.

Ms. Quinn ( the adulteress) and other sinners are throwing venom on the victim.

Why is prostitution considered immoral by some and made a crime for all?

For the same psychological reasons that drinking alcohol was considered immoral by some and made a crime for all during Prohibition.

The psychology of the bluenoses and prohibitionists has always been disturbed and suspect, as is the criminalization of these diverting activities.

The sacred books do not cover up the flaws of people of power, but also included stories of grace and love, gain and growth, restitution and reconciliation, which finally portrayed moral lives which remain worthy as examples and inspirations.
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Exactly right! None of us can make judgments about the Governor's morals - "let him who is without sin". Yet everyone is gleefully jumping on his political grave.

One can hope that his family will ultimately forgive him and through that reconciliation grow in grace and love.

All of us will fail at some point to be moral and will need forgiveness. If his wife forgives him, that would be the best result of this unseemly display of public denunciation.

It's not about the sex. Lots of people are stupid when it comes to sex.

It's about the crime. The Gov. of NY, a former federal prosecutor, knew he was committing a crime and did it anyway.

That's beyond stupid.

Hmmm, what was Mr. Spitzer's biggest mistake??

He did not become a Muslim. Had he, he could have declared his call girls his other wives and been above the law at least in the Islamic world.

Nonsense bgone. Based entirely on assumptions mostly unproven and you know what assuming does.

You can say that again, "This is an extreme case." Are you sure the, $4,300 a trick isn't nothing more than an advertisement for young ladies with an eye on business? The word "wh*ar" is most often heard on Wall Street in reference to financial deals -now take Bear Sterns for example. Of course there's politics and especially religion.

What's a soul worth? http://www.hoax-buster.org/sellyoursoul tells us those willing to sell theirs and lead the multitudes to hell will be handsomely rewarded or is that just "The Jewish-Christian heritage."?

Get educated already. The fictional King David was based upon a real person, a woman named Mutemweya, Queen of Egypt and the mother of fictional Jesus who's story is based upon her daughter, a blasphemer claiming to be the son of Pharaoh, (see story of Lot and his daughters for ancestory of Jesus). Saying that Jesus came from the house of David is a gross understatement.

yes indeed sexual immorality is as old as man and has innumerable defenders. None of this serves as an excuse for what Mr. Spitzer did. Mr. Spitzer engaged in an act of extreme selfishness. That his accomplises were willing changes nothing.