Dear friends,

I wanted to let you know about a new petition I created on We the People, a  
new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your  
name to mine?  If this petition gets 25,000 signatures by December 28, 2011,  
the White House will review it and respond!

We the People allows anyone to create and sign petitions asking the Obama  
Administration to take action on a range of issues.  If a petition gets  
enough support, the Obama Administration will issue an official response.

You can view and sign the petition here:

http://wh.gov/jAW

Here's some more information about this petition:

Decriminalize Prostitution and Recognize Consenting Adults.
Many find sex work morally repugnant, but similar assessments could be made  
of other forms of work, such as the nuclear arms industry.

Decriminalization is no panacea for fixing the worst aspects of sex work, but  
it is a step in the right direction.   If prostitution were not an  
underground activity it would allow the government to much more effectively  
address the serious problems of forced prostitution and juvenile prostitution  
and the other abuses which are part of an industry that operates completely  
in the shadows

Prostitution, as a crime its an enormous misuse of scarce police resources  
where we have women and children in danger from violent serial sex criminals  
and killers, that is what we should be concentrating on, not how many arrests  
we can make for prostitution.

Thank you all very much!!!!  Please feel free to share this on other boards in other states.

-- Modified on 11/28/2011 2:01:28 PM