Lawmakers reach deal to ban indoor prostitution
Associated Press Writer
Published: October 27, 2009
PROVIDENCE—Lawmakers have struck a deal to ban indoor prostitution in Rhode Island, the only state besides parts of Nevada where it’s legal.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee voted 11-3 on Tuesday to send the bill forward for a floor vote expected later this week. It must still be approved by the Senate before going to the governor.
The bill would make prostitution a misdemeanor crime regardless of where it occurs. Prostitutes could be punished by up to six months in prison for a first offense, while their customers would face up to a year.
Currently, police can arrest prostitutes and customers operating in public. Those operating inside cannot be prosecuted because of a 1980 legal loophole.
House and Senate lawmakers reached a compromise recently on closing the loophole after clashing earlier.
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The best way to prevent it is to make it legal!
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How about changing it to this:
“The State of Rhode Island and Providence (word deleted because of political correctness run amok)“
If every word in this language were to be looked at and omitted from use if the word was offensive to some, about ninety percent of the english language dictionary in this country would go bye-bye.
It is STUPIDITY, plain and simple, to deny history for the sake of a few malcontents.
If they change the prostitution law where are the general Assembly members going to get their MASSAGES.Half of them go to those spas themself.
Why not get rid of the word ship? As in slave ship. Or Trader. As in slave trader. Get rid of the word slave. That could work.
A plantation is a large farm or estate, usually in a tropical or subtropical country, where crops are grown for sale in distant markets, rather than for local consumption.
If we continue to eliminate every single word that remind some people of slavery, we gonna run out of words.
Stop wasting time and money trying to change what can not be changed. Just because the words can be erased does not mean it will erase the past.
Personally I can’t understand why I’m called white. But if I disagree, I’m not just called white, I’m called a rascist. Whatever.
As long as there’s a pretense that our officials actually care about the change rather that who they keep happy and how the happy will vote, changing official state names, team names or what people call each other doesn’t make a shred of difference.
There goes the smallest state with the longest name. How about changing it to the State of Rhode Island and Providence Farms. Makes sense to me!!
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