Nehor wrote:I don't think Ray loves prostitution. That whole 'love the sin and not the sinner' thing might come into play here. Can one love the Book of Mormon and prostitutes. If you assume that God inspired the authorship of the Book of Mormon then you can check yes next to the two greatest commandments according to the Messiah.
Nehor, I understand your point, and perhaps I'm reading too much into Ray's comments. Let me ask you this. I've asked Ray a couple of blunt questions, if he cares to answer them. It's his private business and I don't expect an answer, though he is pretty 'honest' about his life. Here, while he's maintained that his relationship with the girl was a sincere personal one, he's also implied by using the term "sex workers" (hey Ray, don't attack me for being PC) that he doesn't see anything in principle wrong with what they do. Also, and I don't want to make Moniker mad at me (heh) but it does seem to me that men who date prostitutes have some familiarity with the industry. If it turns out, by an admission from Ray, that he has employed the services of these providers and holds it to be a respectable industry, then would you admit that it's a little weird for him to defend the Book of Mormon until the day he dies, knowing it teaches moral principles very contrary to his own? I mean, those who insist on respecting the trade, like Moniker (and myself I might add) usually can't stand the sanctimonious victorianism and patriarchal overtones in the denouncement of "whoredoms" and the patronizing "delighting in purity and chastity" of women (which usually means they're jealous someone other than them is out and about "deflowering" their turf). Ray seems to me to be sort your average liberal, man of the world who like myself, would have little use for the goody-two-shoes calls to "righteousness" and purity that are found in books like the Book of Mormon. To love it and "defend" it til death just seems very out of place.
So, if Ray's answers are in line with my speculation, do you see the problem? (I know you're going to just say, "No." hah)