Onward, Christian... sex workers?!

[KamaAina]

Not the Onion. Wikipedia's featured article of the day!

JC's Girls is an Evangelical Christian women's organization in the United States whose members preach the gospel to female workers in the sex industry. The group does not focus upon conversion but rather on communicating its message that Christians exist who are not judging female sex workers and are willing to accept them. Now based at The Rock Church in San Diego, the organization was founded in 2005 at Sandals Church in Riverside, California, by Heather Veitch (pictured), a stripper for four years before becoming a Christian and leaving the sex industry in 1999. Terry Barone, spokesman of the California Southern Baptist Convention, said that JC's Girls members "are doing what Jesus did ... He ministered to prostitutes and tax collectors." Criticism of the organization has focused on the way that members dress and the fact that they do not explicitly encourage women in the sex industry to quit. Philip Sherwell of the Calgary Herald called the evangelism of JC's Girls "America's most unusual Christian outreach operation".

Indeed.

[Xyzse]

1. That though I do not approve of the profession, I can only see this as a good thing.

People need as much support and empathy as they can get, to be able to get beyond that profession, as well as the social isolation that happens.

So, good for them, if this is a positive force for change that they could draw strength from, then I don't see this as anything bad.

Whoops, this is the lounge, I should insert something snarky here, but it is not currently coming to me.