to legalise or not?

The following two quotes come from a recent news article:

"The personal moral views of people such as prosecutions boss Mokotedi Mpshe should play no role in deciding whether sex work is legalised, NGO Sweat (Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force) said on Wednesday."

"She (Vivienne Lalu, Sweat's advocacy programme co-ordinator) told Sapa that while Sweat respected people's right to hold a Christian moral view -- which was essentially what Mpshe had been expressing -- South Africa was a secular state, and it was inappropriate that those views should be enshrined in the country's laws."

I found the article interesting as it raises the question of whether it should be permissible for ones worldview to influence every area of their life and work.

Arguably, legislation should be evaluated not on the basis of whether it allegedly 'enshrines a Christian moral view' but whether it does what it is supposed to do viz. protect, correct and direct the society that is making it.

I suspect that for this reason Mpshe may have it right.

Their is suffiecient scientific (secular) research that shows that the legalisation of prostitution opens a pandora's box of social ills... sex trafficking perhaps being one of the most insidious.

Too many South African's are already in bondage, need we legalise new ways to further enslave?

Who knows perhaps the next 'right' we choose to legalise is the the 'right' to pedophilia...

'Constitutional rights' forbid that we allow that to happen!