Those shoes are a painful reminder of how she was coerced into selling her body for sex by an older man she hoped would become her boyfriend. Instead, she worked long hours in hotel rooms where she would service up to 20 men a night. (here)
This girl is 17. There are countless others like her.
There is nothing much that Backpage can do to about the decline of morality in America, but what it can do is to not foster a place for it to take place.
I hope that God goes all Old Testament on those who are refusing to protect the children… or, I hope that Jesus gets his millstone out.
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- Goldman Sachs’ Investment Supports Sex Trafficking (loans.org)
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- I am NOT Alissa … Alissa via Change.org (point4counterpoint.wordpress.com)
- Is this the end of Backpage.com? (bazaardaily.com)
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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