Posted on 05/05/2006 7:21:34 AM PDT by LifeSite News
Germany's legal prostitution scheme, introduced by the Socialist-Green government in 2001, has generated new controversy as the World Cup is about to begin. German authorities are readying for a boom in the sex trade with the construction of mega-brothels and sex-huts or "performance boxes" as they are called. (coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/may/06050108.html)
Even stranger than the fact that German governmental authorities are, through taxation, profiting from the wiles of prostitution, is the fact that the Catholic Church in Germany is involved in the legal prostitution scheme. The city of Cologne funds the project with some 480,000 Euros per year.
The "Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen" (SkF) [Catholic Women's Welfare Service] is, according to its website, "a women's association in the Catholic Church (in Germany) . . . supporting women on the outskirts of society who suffer from discrimination and the feeling of being excluded." SKF in Cologne, in conjunction with the police and the health department spent three years coming up with the plan for a fenced off compound on the city outskirts where prostitutes can ply their trade "safely".
The area allows those wishing to purchase sexual favours to drive into garage-type structures called "performance boxes" where prostitutes await them.
The Catholic Women's group's Sabine Reichert explained in an interview with Deutsche Welle last year, "Every hut is fitted so that the driver has to get out on the side nearest to the wall, and the prostitute has the side with an exit into the street in case she has to get away in an emergency. There are red alarm buttons in every box that can be pressed."
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In Germany a woman who collects unemployment payments cannot refuse work in brothel.
A very misleading headline.
Agreed. The group in question is appears to be an organization independent of the Catholic Church. Just because you call your group "Catholic" does not mean it is affiliated or supported by the Church itself.
If I started a group of two called "Democrats for Bush" do you think the headlines would be "Democrat Party Supports Bush"?
Exactly. Some FReepers say we should legalise prostitution: I don't think they've thought through the implications. They should look at Germany.
A pity the Holy Father cannot have The Swiss Guards pound the bejayzuz out of the authors of this misleading piece of crap from the word-processor of some ink-stained, Christian-baiting wretch.
Straight Bullshit. Stop spreading rumors like that without at least delivering a link.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/may/05051301.html http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4125 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml
Well sorry for the disbelief and thanks for the link. Still don't believe it.
Why did you change the headline from "Official Catholic Church Women's Group Involved in Legal Prostitution Scheme in Germany"?
Not according to Snopes.
Or Nevada, where there's a distinct lack of women being kidnapped for sex slavery or welfare applicants being forced to work in brothels.
Apparently "lifesitenews" doesn't reply; it's just a posting bot. With an apparent Jack Chick orientation.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=62923
What say you, Religion Moderator? Call lifesitenews to account on this or just let it be?
Oh yeah! Our European allies have been evolving rather nicely.
/eye roll
You do have a point. An unbelievable list of posts!
Yeah. And just because "Catholics for Free Choice" is pro-abortion, it means the Catholic Church supports abortion.
Quick take:
This is a report fanned up by a sensationalist feminist lawyer in Hamburg...
The story, as reported on major radio news here in the USA (I heard it
either on KABC or some other station in Los Angeles) probably is
an urban myth, as described by snopes.com.
If so, just another example of how MSM outlets really do stink at fact-checking.
Googling tells an interesting tale:
Here's a link to one of the original reports:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml
Note the name of the lawyer Mechthild Garweg in Hamburg, who says that
such scenarios (cuts in unemployment benefits for declining
"the oldest job in the world") are not inconceivable given current regulations.
WELL...googling the lawyers name takes us to a cached page from the
"Captain's Quarters" blog,
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:xanCBhN3AV4J:www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/003673.php+%22Mechthild+Garweg%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5
which had this interesting response:
"
I emailed the link to a German friend who is an attorney, asking if the entire
country had gone completely nuts. He responded that the cases described
in the story are hypothetical, and almost certain NOT to happen in practice.
He also said the lawyer cited (Mechthild Garweg) is known for her extreme,
feminist attention-grabbing stunts. Germany's answer to Gloria Allred,
if you will.
"
No response yet to my #14. You there, Religion Mod?
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