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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (852)3/14/2008 5:23:14 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 6846
 
I've been taking the opposite side from Laz on this, but I don't think he was using "prostitution results in divorce" as his main argument.

If he was using it as an argument at all, well he didn't show that it leads to more divorce so that would be a weakness in that particular argument, but you don't show that it doesn't lead to more. Stats on divorce by religious affiliation just aren't relevant to the point, and Laz certainly has not been using religious based arguments against prostitution being legal, so any such stats are really irrelevant to the whole discussion.

Since Atheist ethics are of a higher caliber than religious morals

Thats just an unsupported assertion (no marginally higher divorce rates don't show lower caliber morals). Its also a rather unclear one. "Ethics" is sometimes used to refer to formal rules of professions, but I'm not sure you (or Barrier) is using it that way, and if you are than I don't see how formal ethical rules for a profession would necessarily be of some higher caliber than religiously motivated moral principles. Ethics also refers to the entire study of and issue of moral ideas, which would include religiously inspired ethics, but if your using it that way I'm not sure the sentence is even a very coherent statement.

"We hear an awful lot from conservatives in the Bible Belt and on the TV about how we all should be living.

Neither side of this prostitution debate has been arguing based on "conservative religious "Bible Belt" ideas.
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