The Herald Bulletin, Anderson, Indiana

A lie consists of speaking a falsehood with the intention of deceiving. The Lord denounces lying as the work of the devil. You are of your father the devil,there is no truth in him. When he lies,he speaks according to his own nature,for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Prostitution does injury to the person who engages in it,reducing the person to an instrument of sexual pleasure.

The one pays sins gravely against himself:he violates the chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body,the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Prostitution is a social scourge.

It usually involves women,but also men,women,and adolescents.

The latter two cases involve the added sin of scandal.

While it is always gravely sinful to engage in prostitution,the imputability of the offense can be attentuated to destitution,blackmail,or social pressure.

In The Illinois Senate Obama,voted for infanticide and the refusal of medical assistance of an aborted fetus already born alive. Who does Obama,think that he is God?