If prostitution was legal, would you use one?

Hi, Rob:  Thank you for dropping by, and for your comment.  I had a long reply that got blown away when my app crashed- doing this on the phone!  In short, though, there are but a few responsibilites we need to rely upon our government for:  building/maintaining roads, police and fire departments, national defense.  Not the case now- as government now tells us which light bulbs we're allowed to use, toilets we're allowed to flush in our homes, gas mileage our cars must get as they roll along as fast as the government allows.

MLK is a bit of a sore spot for me- as I've always been of the opinion that he gets far more credit than he deserves for any successes of the Civil Rights movement. He wrote his famous Letter from the Birmingham Jail- though he never really wanted to come, etc. It was Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, for example, that took a lot of beatings and had his home bombed no less than 3 times as he worked to ensure his kids were the ones to integrate our schools. While King had the spotlight, Shuttlesworth and others struggled in his shadow.

Hi, Karen Anne:  #21:  Thank you for stopping by again, and for your continued interest in the discourse here.  I can surely understand and appreciate the Conservative side of things as well as the Liberal side- and unless we want...yikes...the government to step in and "help" us decide which viewpoint we'll adopt.  The way I see it, though, I'd have a hard time living one side of things while finding it all well and good to tread the opposite path.

Hi, Charles:  Thank you for stopping by, and for your comment.  I'm a bit confused, though- are you referring to women having that God-given right to deal with their "problems" as they see fit?  Seriously, though, we have gotten dangerously close to flat-out losing our country. Where our Founding Fathers left their mother land to both seek individual freedom and guarantee it for their fellow man, the government of today is one that places little value on personal responsibility at all- and the only real nod toward freedom goes to the freedom many have to eschew their responsibilities while the rest of America takes up the slackers' slack

Hi, Rob #23:  Thank you for stopping by again, and for your comment.  And thank you for the clarification- surely don't want any aspiring pimps or ho's getting in trouble out your way!

Hi again, Karen Anne #24:  Thank you for your continued interest.  I guess we'll just have to disagree on this point...or agree to have divergent opinions...or... Anyway, I go along with and ascribe to the teachings and beliefs of my church and our Southern Baptist Convention:  conception  creates a life and that life needs to be preserved regardless how "inconvenient" that might be.

Hi, Karen Anne:  Thank you again for your comment, kind words and continued interest.  I hadn't read the entire piece in your link the other day, but I have done so now.  I'm going to discuss this a bit in church Sunday and return with a longer comment Sunday afternoon.  Don't want to simply fire off a quick comment this late at night and without a bit more thought!

Hi, Mike:  Thank you for dropping by, and for your comment.  I'd actually never heard of spritualrain before this- so thanks a lot for pointing that out to me.  I'm going to have to check out more of it this weekend!

Hi, Rob:  Thank you for stopping by again, and for your comment.  It is a funny thing how Marilyn, James Dean and others are portrayed- they'll live on forever and be forever young.  What a concept.  Same can be said for the ones we lost young due to drugs and plane crashes:  Joplin, Morrison and Hendrix are forever 27, Buddy Holly will never see 23 and Lynyrd Skynyrd will never be the same without Ronnie Van Zant.  Guess the closest modern-day comparison would be Kurt Cobain and all the folks that wonder "What if..."

Interesting about the doctor, license, etc.  As with any number of things, even if he'd had documents, they'd only have been as good as their source.  Tons of folks get online degrees that are worthless because the schools they get them from are "allegedly" shady.  And our government can verify someone is legally entitled to live here work here based on a driver's license, etc.- but even that legitimate document can be misleading if it resulted from a scoundrel using a forged/fake source document to acquire it.

Not that that happens or anything.....just sayin'...

Hi, Kristin:  Thank you for dropping by, and for your commnet...and my apologies for a belated follow-up.  I've known a lot of folks that have lived their lives without concern for any moral code at all- only to arrive at death's doorstep with a ton of regrets.  Interesting, isn't it, that one never hears of folks living long, worthwhile and prodcutive lives that arrive at the same spot wishing they'd lived their lives another way.

Hi, Gene:  Thank you for stopping by, and for your comment.  Agreed with respect to jurisdictions setting their own laws and enforcing them (I'll leave my states' rights argument for another day)- and I also agree that The Bible's code should always trump any municipal ones...