No, Josh Hawley, the sexual revolution is not to blame for sex trafficking
You’d think by now that politicians who try to burnish their credentials with appeals to biblical morality would learn to do so in ways that do not make laughingstocks of themselves and their purported biblical morality.
Consider the case of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, who recently claimed the sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s, and the “anything goes” culture pushed by “Hollywood” and “cultural elites,” is responsible for the scourge of human trafficking.
How is it that a candidate for high office can actually believe the commerce in women and children as sexual chattel -- a trade that has certainly abided as long as human civilization -- has somehow been facilitated by a movement that gained women more rights over their own wombs and livelihoods?
“We have a human trafficking crisis in our state and in this city and in our country because people are willing to purchase women, young women, and treat them like commodities,” Hawley said in a taped speech given in December at an event in Kansas City hosted by the Missouri arm of the American Renewal Project, which reaches out to evangelicals, blending messages of faith with politics. “There is a market for it. Why is there? Because our culture has completely lost its way. The sexual revolution has led to exploitation of women on a scale that we would never have imagined, never have imagined.”
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