Be Sure to Wear a Flower in Your Hair ( SF to decide whether to decriminalize prostitution )

California Catholic Daily ^ | August 8, 2008 | staff

[kellynla]

This November, while California voters will consider several important ballot initiatives – among them one protecting marriage and another requiring family notification before a minor gets an abortion – San Francisco voters will be asked whether they want to legalize prostitution and rename a sewage treatment facility after the outgoing president.

“Enforcement of Laws Related to Prostitution and Sex Workers” is the title of a local San Francisco measure. The text of the proposed ordinance notes that, last year, the city of San Francisco allocated $11.4 million to the city’s Task Force on Prostitution – nearly $4 million more than what was allocated for the task force in 1996.

[kellynla]

ping

[SolidWood]

several important ballot initiatives – among them one protecting marriage and another requiring family notification before a minor gets an abortion – San Francisco voters will be asked whether they want to legalize prostitution and rename a sewage treatment facility after the outgoing president.

Figures.

[xmission]

last year, the city of San Francisco allocated $11.4 million to the city’s Task Force on Prostitution – nearly $4 million more than what was allocated for the task force in 1996.

That's money that could be better spent removing gerbils.

[FlingWingFlyer]

They should also ask the voters if they should change the name of the city to San Franfreakshow.

[BlazingArizona]

That's money that could be better spent removing gerbils.

Hookers operating in the private sector will be glad to charge extra for that. Capitalism wins again!

[jaz.357]

Prostitution?

In S.F.?

Can't be!

[Jacquerie]

The other day I saw a "Buck Fush" bumper sticker on a Prius from Leon county, which contains the FL state capitol, Tallahassee and several looney liberal universities.

The Left is so subtle, so nuanced.

[sauropod]

Screw those people.

[free_life]

The George W. Bush Sewage Treatment Facility is this what they are proposing?

[TChad]

That's money that could be better spent removing gerbils.

I have to disagree. It is money that would be better left in taxpayers' bank accounts.

I hope both measures pass. San Francisco's "community values" would not change a whit if prostitution were legalized, and Bush could give a magnificent humorous speech accepting the honor of having a modern, efficient sewage treatment plant named for him.

[kellynla]

how ‘bout my name for SF...”San Francissyco”

St. Francis has to be verrrrrrrrrrrrry upset with what has become of the city that was named after him!

[coloradan]

Even better: screw them, and charge them money! Legally!

[phatus maximus]

Is there any doubt they won’t?

[gc4nra]

So S.F. is going to be the first city where it’s legal to be an illegal, gay, dope smoking(medicinal, of course) prostitute who can’t smoke or own a gun?

[kellynla]

“So S.F. is going to be the first city where it’s legal to be an illegal, gay, dope smoking(medicinal, of course) prostitute who can’t smoke or own a gun?”

I guess they’ve forgotten what happened in 1906 and 1989...

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Why not legalize Gavin Newsome and his band of whores?

[BlazingArizona]

So S.F. is going to be the first city where it’s legal to be an illegal, gay, dope smoking(medicinal, of course) prostitute who can’t smoke or own a gun?

I hope that the prostitution measure passes, and that the NRA will as a consequence lobby to have gun ownership certified as a protected sexual fetish. We could circulate those pictures of Ann Coulter with her guns.

[Lizavetta]

gun ownership certified as a protected sexual fetish.

Holy crap, what a brilliant idea.

[ronnie raygun]

Right now Im thinking earthquake! aren’t you?