Wake Up Call: UnBuckling the Bible Belt

So much for red state values. According to Reuters sex tourism is thriving in the Bible Belt, with Atlanta being the go-to city for liasons with underage girls. "Men fly in, are met by pimps, have sex with a 14-year-old for lunch, and get home in time for dinner with the family," said Sanford Jones, the chief juvenile judge of Fulton County, Georgia." The article provides the staggering statistic that "Up to 90 percent of runaways are believed to end up as prostitutes, with a third lured into prostitution within 48 hours. Some are sold into sexual slavery by their parents, according to a 2005 study by the Atlanta Women's Agenda." Other cities trafficking in the prostitution of minors include Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, St. Louis, Tampa, and (big surprise here) Washington, D.C. OperatorNYC is thoroughly digusted. This shouldn't be happening around the world and it shouldn't be happening on U.S. soil. They story comes on the heels of the arrest of Homeland Security press aide Brian J. Doyle for attempting to prey on what he believed was a fourteen-year-old girl over the internet. [via Houston Chronicle] Hey, values voters, this your party. Where's your moral highground now? heard on The Randi Rhodes Show