The hypocrisy of these folk never ceases to amaze me.
Rather than promoting a healthy attitude towards human sexuality, let’s keep it all hidden in a dark closet. If you think about it, talk about it, look at it, or Holy Jeebus:eek:, enjoy it, you’d best have a fire and brimstone rider on your homeowner’s policy. Can I hear an Amen?
In the long line of Jim Bakkers, Jimmy Swaggarts, and other frauds du jour, I present to you John W. Riddle.
While the faithful might say that he was merely learning more about that which leads his flock astray, it seems more likely that he was on his own pilgramage to the garden of earthly delights.
Does the finding of Viagra® on his person constitute a charge of assault with a dead weapon? :wally
Devils advocate, here. The mere fact that he wanted to keep adult shops out of residential areas does not mean he’s automatically opposed to prostitution. Fair enough, prostitution is illegal, and he’s an idiot for taking the risk, what with him being a rather high profile figure and all.
But I fully support legalised prostitution (although I wouldn’t personally employ their services, I feel that it’s a business like any other), yet I wouldn’t want to see an Adult entertainment shop next to my kids’ elementary school (hypothetically speaking).
Here in town we have an adult toystore right next door to a funeral home. Always thought that would be a bit disturbing for both sets of customers.
So Mr. Goody got busted with a ho, and…?
Keith Richards did a public service announcement on MTV denouncing drugs.
Chaucer explores the same conflict of moral teaching & moral actions (can’t remember which tale, Priest’s?) and asks the reader to consider in what way the actions of a lecherous priest devalue his teachings of chastity? Answer: not at all. Morality is a dogma that can be taught by anyone–pure or otherwise. Maybe Riddle is hooked on hookers, realizes it’s an addiction that’s wasting his time, his money, family and soul and wants to make others safe from the vice that has ensnared him. Or maybe he’s grossed out when his hooker whips out a dildo & wants the infernal things banned from his neck of the woods. Who knows? Let’s not be too hard on the guy, Dances.
I think the totality of the circumstances needs to be considered. Did the man take viagra only to find out that his wife/mistress/whatever was suddenly unavailable? If so, what’s a guy to do?
I see him as pursuing a noble crusade. These “adult bookstores” are a scourge on local economies and locating them in residential areas is an unfair business practice. This trend of easy access has removed the adult stores from the red light districts and has allowed the stores to increase their sales of love dolls and other mastubatory aids. Masturbatory aids. The appearance of these businesses in upscale residential areas has increased the incidence of masturbation, but not of sex, and has robbed our hard working streetwalkers of their paying clients.
