February 3, 2018
People who are taking issue with
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley’s assertion that the Sexual Revolution is
somehow responsible for human trafficking point to mentions of prostitution in
the Bible as examples of how long it’s been going on.
But in my opinion, sex trafficking in
the Bible wasn’t limited to prostitution.
Sarah made Hagar
sleep with Abraham in order to get a son for Sarah to raise.
Abraham told
Sarah to go with King Abimelech so that the king wouldn’t kill Abraham just to
get his hands on Sarah.
Lot offered to
send his daughters out for the mob to rape so that the mob wouldn’t molest the
strangers who were visiting him.
Rachel and Leah
made their servants sleep with Jacob so that they could bear sons.
Heck, even Leah
was handed to Jacob so that she would be off her father’s hands.
Frankly, you can’t throw a dart at
the Old Testament without coming across an instance of sex trafficking.
The sad thing is that in two of the
above instances, the women were doing it to other women. And it seems to have
been a pretty established custom before Sarah threw Hagar at Abraham. So, not
only is human trafficking as old as humanity, women helped to promote it.
So we’re sort of ahead of the game
these days—at least we realize that it’s wrong and are trying to stop it.
There’s no real point to this
musing, I just thought it was worth mentioning.
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