“They may take the prostitute off the street but it's going to take more than a good job to take the street out of the ex-prostitute.” 

This quote from this post is a gross across-the-border judgment about women who have been victims of prostitution. These are individuals, not a mass group of unreformable, valueless nothings.

Romans 2:1  Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

Senate Bill 724 is not about reformation. It is about allowing an individual with a past record and a reformed life to be free from job discrimination.

“The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission may not issue a teaching,

personnel service or administrative license [shall be issued] to any person until the person has

attained the age of 18 years and has furnished satisfactory evidence of proper educational training.

(2) The [Teacher Standards and Practices] commission may also require an applicant for a

teaching, personnel service or administrative license to furnish evidence satisfactory to the commission

of good moral character, mental and physical health, and such other evidence as it may

deem necessary to establish the applicant¢s fitness to serve as a teacher.

A school district may employ or contract with a person who has been convicted of a

crime under ORS 167.007, convicted of an attempt to commit a crime under ORS 167.007 or

convicted in another jurisdiction of a crime that is substantially equivalent, as defined by

commission rule, to a crime under ORS 167.007 if the school district determines that the

person is fit to be employed by or to contract with the school district.”

A good article.

 This post/blog may be a call to "keep children home where they belong," but it is biased.

Some of my dearest friends are what you at TOS call “ex-prostitutes.” That’s like calling me an ex-accountant, or an ex-bar-fly. I am actually a teacher now.

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