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Indian Sect Members Vow To Marry Sex Workers
More than 1,000 followers of a multi-religious sect in northern India have decided to buck traditional wisdom and turn whores into housewives in an attempt to help them escape exploitation. The group (DSS) claims their pledge will also help stop the spread of AIDS. It is estimated that 40%-50% of women working in red light districts in large cities are HIV carriers. Dr Aditya Insan, a senior DSS functionary, said, "This will have to be a slow and delicately handled process. Many women are HIV-positive. Some have young children and are understandably concerned about their future. We need to ensure these women are protected legally once they are married."
Hirajs or I think that is how it is spelled, basically the Indian version of the Thai Ladyboy.....
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
what you say?
Wait... what does the actual existence or non-existence of a god or gods have to do with people organizing through religion to do something good for others?
You must not know very many cultural Jews.
Freedom isn't free; its price is the well-being of others.
How's this:
The demonstrated link between educating women and raising living standards in third world countries has little to do with basic sanitation or in sending them into the workforce. It's main benefit is to counter a lot of the bullshit spread by organized religion: to inform young people that children are not "miracles" sent by God to help harvest your crops. Rather, they consume resources and cost money and having everyone reproduce past the rate of replacement is a recipe for ecological disaster and inescapable, crushing poverty.
You can draw a straight line from those guys standing there with their hands up, through the religious shamans, imperialist priests and other irresponsible leaders misinforming and improperly educating young women, failing to teach sane economics and basic physics, encouraging overpopulation and resource depletion, through other exploitative institutions from sweatshops to poorly-structured welfare programs to red light districts everywhere, right to the penniless, child-burdened female sex workers they are pretending to "rescue" from the ridiculously poor decisions every one of them sanctioned and encouraged.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bHZRSlhJxY
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
but the message comes across anyway, and it's not encouraging.
I agree with the grammar-impaired poster.
Zealous atheists (esp. on Slashfot) often blame religion for lots of evils in the world. GP is asking how they plan on turning this into a negative.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
He's saying they are "nuts" because "sarcastic, condescending zealots" is a lot more to type. I'm not particularly religious or spiritual, but I try to avoid mocking others for what they do or do not believe.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
How dare you insult the Order of The Ginaty Beardy Sky Faerie?
Wow, you really hate yourself and every other human being on this planet huh.
Yea, I suppose it's better we go out with a bang than the animals - I'm sure they'll be consciously aware of the sacrifice we have just made for them.
The magical number is: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
This might turn out, if true, to be a real world execution of ideas proposed in Steven E. Landsburg's article (and subsequent book) "More Sex Is Safer Sex". The arguement goes that getting sexually conservative segments of the population to socially engage the sexually prolific segment of the population dampens the amount of partner swapping that goes on and can thus slow the rate of infection. There is a research paper in here somewhere that would make a good candidate for the Ig Nobel prize.
Stay sentient. Don't drink bad milk.