Stop ads for sexually trafficked minors

This note comes from Dan Edwards, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada. Complete Las Vegans will find it worthy of thought. It's a complicated issue and you can find a balanced explanation of the issues at hand in this NY Times piece.

Bishop Edwards, however, is approaching the issue as a moral one, not a legal one. You can read his note and decide for yourself.

"Please lend your support to this important moral effort by signing the petition and circulating it in your congregations.

"Backpage.com (a subsidiary of Village Voice) is an on line classified ad directory. Its section carries coded ads for sexually trafficked minors. 51 Attorney Generals (that’s every state + DC) have called on them to stop this collusion with the sex trafficking. So far, Village Voice has its heels dug in, offering only cosmetic gestures.

"This year Craig’s List already did the right thing by shutting down it’s Adult Section. Village Voice should do the same. There have  been 50 cases of sex trafficking in 22 states linked to Backpage.Com ads. This may be the tip of the iceberg. But the numbers are not the point. One child is one too many.

"You can use the link below or go to www.groundswell-movement.org to sign the petition, as Bishop Katharine and I have already done. Groundswell is the social action arm of Auburn Seminary."

-- BD