Humans rights are for all humans. We were created unique individuals with countless abilities and talents, emotions, vocabularies, culture and choice. Choice Choice has become a dirty word, but it isn't. It is our unique ability to choose that differentiates us from virtually every other creature. Ok,...
It's true that people can be cruel. I have encountered many people in just over half a century. Many people, reasonable, smart, kind -at times can be very cruel. Heartbeat Bills There are a number of #Heartbeat bills up for votes across the country. The fact that...
Prostitution is not a victimless crime. Even where it is legal, there are victims. Victimless Crime Our laws are ostensibly written for people. However, in the last half century, an administrative state has been creeping into the realm of lawmaking, by making rules that equate to laws....
How is it possible to make all things new? Perspective Everything we encounter is interpreted exclusively by each person, even when more than one person is experiencing the same event. I noticed an announcement for some corrective lenses for color blindness and was instantly reminded that even...
There are those who would have you believe that there is a clear and distinct separation between prostitution and sex trafficking. They are "pimping distinction."Prostitution, they say, is an autonomous and contractural agreement between two consenting adults that involves payment for sex.Simple, a choice, right? What...
Trafficking survivors support SESTA. The main goal of SESTA is to give trafficking survivors recourse against the online facilitators of sex trafficking. #LetUsSurvive is the most recent example of language being highjacked to push an opposite agenda. They do so in the name of human...
Are those sidewalk advocates or sidewalk bullies? I wanted to offer help and deter women, children and families from suffering the horror of abortion. I wanted to be an advocate. On the sidewalk When I was in my early 30s, I stood outside of a number of...
A big hot mess is no way to describe a person, but it has been pretty common in some survivor circles. It seems to me that every single person alive has been a big hot mess at one time or another. No one has it...
Often, I hear people say that pro-lifers only care about the baby before he or she is born. They rail against sidewalk advocates, screaming profanities or demanding they go home and find something better to do. Of course, I am speaking from experience. I know something they...
From the beginning of time, truth has been twisted to deceive us and kill, steal, and destroy human beings. 'Verbal gymnastics' is when someone tries to manipulate a situation to get what they want, often using lies mingled with truth. Verbal gymnastics It is the word substitutions...