Making it a felony to simply offer to pay for sex is getting into 8th Amendment territory--cruel and unusual punishment. Maybe the right case will come along and this new law will be declared unconstitutional. A big maybe. Originally Posted by limerick304It's certainly not in keeping with the principles of our country, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Although it does tie in well with the whole puritanical America and the sense of exceptionalism.
Our country is founded on a sense of individual agency as well too though. I don't think the intent is for our laws to be formed to protect the most vulnerable always. If someone is unable to pick up the phone and call for help on a multi-language menu then they are at a disadvantage although I understand this is the reality sometimes. We live in a world where there's little to stop someone from failing in the marketplace and starving on a street corner. Look how Austin is dealing with those folks now, it's really telling where their spirit is really at.
A lot of people are hurt these days that while trafficked are never openly marketed, mainly kids with bad parents or in foster care. I don't see anything in this law that protects them although they're admittedly the most vulnerable and probably some of the most innocent victims of trafficking. One of these kids who is a ward of the state and forced into foster care with perverse foster parents, can the state be punished for pimping? Can a minister be held accountable when he preaches to abused kids that they just need to shut up because their parents are Godly? Will the state have mercy when the abused young teen gets pregnant and wants an abortion?