San Francisco weighs decriminalizing prostitution

Oh, goodie! Now the most liberal city in America can make prostitution respectable, as in Amsterdam, where husbands drop off bright-eyed wives in the red light district, kissing them a goodbye and wishing them a good day at work. In the AP article linked above, Evelyn Nieves reported Tuesday (October 21, 2008):

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.

San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K — a measure that forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex.

If only all those folks in the 'red' states of the American hinterland could learn to be as respectful of marginal people as these self-congratulatory citizens of this bastion of civility who have the decency also of promoting the queering of Frisco marriage laws (Proposition 8), as well as the candidacy of that most urbane embodiment of Enlightened liberal tolerance, "The One," whose long-awaited reign of blessed hope will bring well-earned respectability also to victims of intemperance still groaning under repressive state and federal limitations on baby-killing, restrictions that suggest something less than full-and-equal respectability for Moloch worship and child-sacrifice as a means of back up contraception. Maranatha, Obama! Hail City of shining light, Babylon by the Bay!