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Are Evangelicals Monopolizing, Misleading US Anti-Trafficking Efforts?

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[B]Are Evangelicals Monopolizing, Misleading US Anti-Trafficking Efforts?[/B]

[QUOTE]Since the late 1990s, the US federal government has stepped up its efforts to stop human trafficking â?? the trade in human beings, usually for forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. The primary anti-trafficking legislation is the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), passed through Congress in 2000. During his presidency, President George W. Bush described trafficking as â??evilâ? and focused much of his rhetoric against trafficking on what he called the exploitation of women and children. In her new book Other Dreams of Freedom, Yvonne Zimmerman, a professor of Christian Ethics, argues that the theoretical basis of US government anti-trafficking efforts derives directly from Protestant theology and traditional ideas of what she calls â??sexually pure and pious womanhoodâ?. Zimmerman challenges this basis for anti-trafficking efforts, saying that it ends up limiting the freedom of trafficked people, especially women, by conceiving of their â??rescueâ? as them ending up in traditional, heterosexual marriages â?? or at least refraining from sexual relations outside of marriage.[/QUOTE]

Very interesting interview and thoughts. :)

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