Josh Hawley blames sex trafficking on sexual revolution of 1960s in speech to pastors

[highplainsdem]

Source: KC Star

Hawley, the top Republican prospect to challenge Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill in November, launched a new unit in the attorney general’s office focused on fighting human trafficking a few months into his first year in office.

During a speech at a “Pastors and Pews” event hosted by the Missouri Renewal Project, Hawley tied the issue to the sexual revolution, the cultural shift in the 1960s and 1970s that eliminated the social stigma for premarital sex and contraception that had been commonplace in the United States.

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“We must ... deliver a message to our culture that the false gospel of ‘anything goes’ ends in this road of slavery. It ends in the slavery and the exploitation of the most vulnerable among us. It ends in the slavery and exploitation of young women.”

McCaskill responded to the controversy over Hawley’s comments on Twitter Wednesday evening. She also took a jab at Hawley’s background as a graduate from Stanford University and Yale Law School.

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Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article197603534.html

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McCaskill's tweet:

Link to tweet

I didn’t go to one of those fancy private schools, but the history I learned in public schools & Mizzou taught me that the evidence of trafficking of women for sex goes back to before 2000 BC. It didn’t begin with women’s rights and the birth control pill. @HawleyMo

[Xipe Totec]

1. It's called "the oldest profession" for a reason. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. yeah, but...

Don't some of his target audience believe the earth began in 1960?

I'm confused. Did the pill cause slavery or is it what started the "career obsessed banshees" that Sykes wants to court? It's them damned hippies agin, ain't it!

Was Josh just joshing?

[Xipe Totec]

5. I was talking about politicians, but yea...

Kidding

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. 1 politician, 2 GOPer clowns

I think McCaskill is the only politician in that article.

Hawley may not be as outright toxic oddball as Sykes, but he's sure trying to re-invent the world to fit his audience.

What is it with these characters? Some of them scare me.

[Xipe Totec]

9. Josh Hawley is, technically a politician. At least according to Wiki.

Joshua David Hawley is an American attorney and politician serving as the 42nd and current Attorney General of Missouri since January 2017.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hawley

Though clown is a more accurate description.

[truthisfreedom]

2. The stupid is the new theme with rethugs and the religious.

[YOHABLO]

3. What a completely stupid thing to say. Is that what they taught him at Stanford? Jeezzus Please.

[gay texan]

6. Typical

appealing to the idiots among us.....

[asiliveandbreathe]

8. The sexual revolution - say what???? - I am starting to get up off the floor 'cause I fell

reading this POS words - OMG...yep, that's it...human trafficking - the 60s sexual revolution - oh man...I am truly aghast that there are people like this poor excuse for a man, has to stoop so low -

“We must ... deliver a message to our culture that the false gospel of ‘anything goes’ ends in this road of slavery. It ends in the slavery and the exploitation of the most vulnerable among us. It ends in the slavery and exploitation of young women.” Anything goes??? What??? -

I suggest to this miscreant go talk to a therapist - serious therapy - not just talking..serious therapy - a woman therapist would be a great place to start..

Please tell me he will get nowhere near our govt..there are just too many of his kind already trying to put women back in the kitchen.....

Hey MO..someone let your dog out...and they voted to make this dog their AG????Barf..oh Barf....

[paleotn]

10. Obviously

men should be blamed for sex trafficking. They were perpetrating it long before the 1960's.

[bronxiteforever]

11. I cant separate the real headlines from the Onion anymore.

The depth and breadth of gop stupidity just continues to impress!

[keithbvadu2]

12. Sexual revolution? - Like Trump bragging that avoiding STDs was his personal VN?

[efhmc]

13. The main idea has always been to blame women and their

evil beguiling ways.

[Turbineguy]

14. How can you be sore

about not getting laid in the '60's when you were born in 1979?

[progree]

15. Didn't Trump's grandfather run a brothel? That was before the pill and the hippies

Trump’s Family Fortune Originated in a Canadian Gold-Rush Brothel
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-trump-family-fortune/


The Arctic Restaurant is about 4th down the street with a black sign



Friedrich Trump, pimp, circa 1918


The "Arctic Restaurant" shop in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The shop is in the same location that Dotard Trump's grandfather Friedrich Trump owned and operated a hotel and restaurant and etc. under the same name

[Orrex]

16. Next we'll hear from the prostitute Hawley's been seeing for decades.

That's usually how these protest-too-much guys turn out.

[marble falls]

17. Because there were no laws against "white slavery" or bordellos before the 1960's....

the Mann Act wasn't law? How do the abysmally uneducated get to become experts in the fields of their inexpertise?

[IronLionZion]

18. Dude is probably guilty of something and repressing it

since he doesn't seem to understand consent and choice apparently. Those damn liberal feminists empowerment inevitably result in sexual slavery?

They should investigate him just in case he's got something to hide.

[SWBTATTReg]

19. What an idiotic thing to say...

Claire says it best.

Hawley, is a newbie, and who's barely been in public service (his first and only job is the AG job).

Because he's somewhat photogenic, and seemingly well spoken (not true now of course) the gop have been after him to run for the senate (as a Missouri senate rep).

As a Missouri resident, I take exception to the fact that he's just got in office as the AG, his first and only job, and now he's got national aspirations. What?! Obviously he's let it get to his head.

Come on now, at least finish your current, 1st, and only job.

Of course Claire is absolutely right in stating that trafficking has been going on for a heck of a lot longer than the cultural shift in the 1960s and 1970s, women's rights and birth control.

In a way, this is a younger 'Todd Akin' look-alike (Akin who is for his so called 'legitimate rape' comment). I think Mr. Hawley is going to find out that the waters are a lot more choppy than he realized. Rightfully so, if you are going to make stupid comments like this.