On Sex Slaves in Minnesota (and an accompanying rant)对性奴隶在明尼苏达州（和一陪同rant ）
Written by Mark Van Steenwyk : May 23, 2007写的马克范steenwyk ： 2007年5月23日
It is a mistake to think of human trafficking as something that only happens in the developing world–or in uber-cities like Los Angeles. Recently in Minnesota, the police cracked down on a prostitution ring that relied upon sexual slaves (though it could be argued that most prostitutes are sexual slaves). Read the article这是一个错误的认为，贩卖人口作为，只有发生在发展中世界-或在产品的城市一样，洛杉矶，最近在明尼苏达州，警方破获一个卖淫集团，依靠的性奴隶（虽然它可有人认为最妓女性奴隶） 。阅读文章 here这里 . Here’sa snippet: 。以下是摘录：
The women came mostly from Mexico and Central America.妇女大部分来自墨西哥和中美洲。
When they arrived in Minnesota, the women had their passports and other identifying documents taken away and they were forced into a world of prostitution.当他们抵达在明尼苏达州，妇女有其护照和其他文件，确定带走和他们被迫成为世界卖淫。 In one night, two women serviced more than 80 men in a south Minneapolis house.在一个晚上，两女服务80多的男子在一南明尼阿波利斯内务。
On Monday, in what might be one of the biggest such cases in Minnesota, 25 people were charged in federal court with running eight brothels.对周一，在什么可能是其中最大的此类案件在明尼苏达州， 25人被起诉，在联邦法院与运行8妓院。 Eighteen of the suspects are illegal immigrants, according to an indictment filed in US District Court. 18的犯罪嫌疑人是非法入境者，根据一项起诉书，在美国联邦地方法院。
Five of the brothels operated in Minneapolis and the others were in Richfield, West St. Paul and Austin, Minn., according to the indictment.五的妓院经营在明尼阿波利斯和其他人在richfield ，西圣保禄和奥斯汀，明尼苏达州，根据起诉书。
“The leaders of this prostitution ring … are responsible for the bondage and sex slavery of women, an intolerable condition in a twenty-first century America,” US Attorney Rachel Paulose said at a news conference. “的领导人，这卖淫环… …是负责的束缚和性奴役的妇女，一个不能容忍的条件，在二十一世纪的美国， ”美国司法部长保罗雷切尔在记者招待会上说。
Most people think this stuff doesn’t happen in the US. I have friends that are studying to become missionaries so that they can address human sex trafficking. But few churches even have something like this on their radar. What if churches were more tuned into these sorts of problems–and actively sought to bring freedom to those who are in bondage?大多数人认为这种东西不会发生在美国，我有朋友说，正在研究成为传教士，使他们能正视人类卖淫嫖娼，但很少教会，甚至有一些像这样对他们的雷达是什么，如果教堂被更多调谐到这些各种各样的问题和积极寻求带来的自由，这些是在谁的枷锁？
Sure, some urban churches reach out to prostitutes. But if you read the quote above, you’ll notice that three of these brothels weren’t urban–two were in first ring suburbs and one was in a mid-sized town.肯定的是，一些城市的教会接触到妓女，但如果您看过引述上述情况，您会发现，三这些妓院，没有城市，两人在第一圈和郊区的一个是在一个中型城市。
Forgive me for the anguished rant that is coming…请原谅我痛苦rant这是未来…
Things like this f’ing break my heart. There is a whole world of slavery, prostitution, abuse, molestation, drug addiction, homelessness (most homeless people are women and children by the way) that the church is largely ill equipped to address. And here’s the thing: can anyone refute the notion that, according to Jesus, these are the very sorts of issues that the church should address FIRST?事情是这样的f'ing打破我的心是有整个世界的奴役，卖淫，虐待，性骚扰，吸毒，无家可归者（大部分无家可归的人是妇女和儿童的方式）表示，教会，主要是病患者的装备，地址。和这里的事情：任何人都可以反驳的概念，根据耶稣，这些都是非常各种各样的问题，教会应首先处理的呢？ Aren’t these EXACTLY the sort of people Jesus was most interested in serving (Luke 4)?没有这些，正是这类人耶稣最感兴趣的服务（路加福音4 ） ？
Don’t get me wrong. Missio Dei isn’t really on the front lines of most of this stuff. We are feebly trying to do what we can. But with 15 people and a budget of about $6,000 A YEAR (I can’t believe that we’re working with so little, in a neighborhood that needs so MUCH!) there is only so much you can do. And meanwhile large churches with large budgets spend MOST of their money (or should I call it Mammon?) on staff (whose jobs are almost always preaching, worship, spiritual education, and administration), facilities (which are usually only used by the church for preaching, worship, and spiritual education), and outreach (which is usually marketing and fun events).不要误会我的意思。使命dei是没有真正上前线，大部分这种东西，我们是feebly试图做什么，我们可以，但与15人及预算约$ 6000年（我不能相信我们正在努力与这么少，在一个居委会需要这么多！ ）是只有这么多，你可以做的。同时，大教会与大预算花费大部分的钱（或者我应该称之为玛蒙？ ）对工作人员（他们的工作几乎总是说教，崇拜，精神的教育，管理） ，设施（即通常只用教堂的说教，崇拜和精神文明教育） ，和外展（这是通常的营销及游艺活动） 。
We’re failing here, people. I don’t know what else to say. And don’t you dare say that it is the government’s job to take care of sex slaves and poor people. We should be there–bathed in the darkness of the world as we try to bring forth light–before the cops show up. I know that is a heavy burden to lay on the Body of Christ. I KNOW that it makes you feel guilty. I feel guilty too. Not simply because I don’t do “enough”–but because I’ve wasted so much time on things that don’t matter so much.我们正在未能在这里，人，我不知道还有什么其他的话。和你不敢说，这是政府的工作，以照顾性奴隶和清贫的人，我们应该有-沐浴在黑暗的世界，因为我们努力使提出的轻型之前，警察查看了，我知道这是一个沉重的负担，奠定对基督的身体。我知道这让你感到内疚，我感到内疚。并非单纯因为我不这样做“不够” ，而是因为我已经浪费了这么多时间就无所谓的东西这么多。
This isn’t to say that teaching, worship, and spiritual formation aren’t important. Of COURSE they are. But we’ve put it all into the wrong package. Good teaching is easy to come by. Spiritual formation isn’ta giant mystery. It is the shiny package we want to put it in that takes time and money. Most of the energy of most churches goes into accoutrements–fluffy trappings that distract us from the meat of the Gospel.这是不是说教学，崇拜和精神文明的形成并不重要。当然他们，但我们已经把它所有进入错误的方案。良好的教学是来之不易。精神的形成不是巨人神秘，它是有光泽的包装，我们希望把它在这方面需要时间和金钱。大部分的能量大多数教会进入按-蓬松的服饰，即分散我们的肉福音。
Every church should open its books to their congregation and say: “The biggest budget items are what we care about the most…the smallest budget items are what we care about the least.” Then someone should read through a Gospel–pick any of the four–and begin to rework the budget, without too much concern for the survival of their own organization.每一个教会应该开放其书籍，以他们的聚集，并说： “最大的预算项目是我们所关心的最…最小的预算项目是我们所关心的，至少” ，然后有人应改为通过一个福音挑选任何的四，并开始返工财政预算案中，没有太多的关注，为生存他们自己的组织。
Let’s BE the church. Please, for the love of Christ, could we stop wasting our time with things that don’t matter?让我们成为教会。请，为基督的爱，我们是否可以停止浪费我们的时间与无所谓的东西呢？ Yes…I know that spending all that time and money on fluff gets people saved. But saved into WHAT?是… …我知道，所有的开支，时间和金钱的绒毛得到人民的保存， 但保存到什么？
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Thank you for speaking up and offering no-fluff Christianity!谢谢你的发言和提供无绒毛基督教！
I just learned that our town has the highest gang population per capita in our state, ahead of the two major cities.刚才我了解到，我们的城市具有最高的帮派人口人均在我们的国家，未来的两个主要城市。 Why?为什么？ Drugs and trafficking of heaven-knows-what across the border from Texas and further south.毒品和贩卖人口的天堂，不知是什么越过边界，从德克萨斯州和再往南。 Desperate people in a desperate place…Come Lord Jesus!绝望的人们在绝望的地方…来主耶稣！
~Anna 〜安娜。
This is part of why I want to see MN’s legislature’s turned into a unicameral structure with a hybrid election system between the (current) majoritarian and (European) representational systems.这是一部分，所以我不愿看到的锰的立法机关的变成一个单一结构的混合选举制度之间（目前）和多数（欧洲）具有代表性的系统。
I believe this is possible if我相信这是可能的，如果 a pragmatic coalition is formed by the main three parties to pool their votes一个务实的联盟是由三个主要当事方池票 and和 vote quasi-strategically投票准战略 in the upcoming state elections.在即将到来的国家选举。
It shdn’t be up to just local communities like yours to crack down on scourges like slavery, but local communities ought to play a critical role in such.它shdn't最多只是当地社区像您一样，严厉打击洪水猛兽一样，奴隶制，但当地社区应该发挥关键作用，在这样的。
dlw
Couldn’t agree more.不能同意。
Hey Mark, if were honest…what you’ve written is about most of our neighbourhoods.嘿马克，如果诚实的人… …什么您的书面是关于我们大部分的街区。 I look around I see poverty on the increase, more homeless people on the street every week, prostitution on the increase.我期待我看到周围的贫困在增加，更多的无家可归的人在街上每个星期，卖淫就增加。
And I look around the same neighbourhoods and see many church buildings closed for 6 days a week for the most part…and open for a few hours on a Sunday.我环顾四周，同一街区和看到许多教会建筑物封闭，以便进行六天一个星期为最的一部分， … …并开放供几个小时就1周日。 We worship while the world around us falls apart at the seams.我们崇拜，而我们周围的世界，属于除了在煤层。
Jesus came to build the Kingdom…and we build so much less.耶稣来建立王国… …我们建立了这么多少。
Yes, we need to be the church.诚然，我们必须教会。 Thanks for bringing this out in the open.感谢您将这一问题列于公开化。
“Let’s BE the church. “让我们成为教会。 Please, for the love of Christ, could we stop wasting our time with things that don’t matter?请，为基督的爱，我们是否可以停止浪费我们的时间与无所谓的东西呢？ Yes…I know that spending all that time and money on fluff gets people saved.是… …我知道，所有的开支，时间和金钱的绒毛得到人民的保存。 But saved into WHAT?”但保存到什么“ ？
Couldn’t have said it better.不能说好。 Thanks.谢谢。
~Tonya from Abbey Way 〜汤妮雅•从修道院的方式
Okay (my heart is moved)… then can we pray for these situations and these folks after breakfast on Saturdays and after dinner during the week instead of talking about ourselves and praying for ourselves.好（我的心是动议） … …这样，我们才能够祈求这些情况和这些乡亲早餐后，星期六和晚饭后的一周期间，而是谈论自己和祈祷，为我们自己。 After all, I’m kinda tired of talking about myself anyway.Can we pray that God would put us into the path of those involved in these operations.毕竟，我kinda厌倦谈论自己anyway.can我们祈求上帝会把我们进入的路径对那些参与这些行动。 I know Latinos and I get around (not that it’s just the Latinos)…I’m sure it’s only a matter of time and a bit of sniffing.我知道，拉美裔和我周围的（不是，这只是我们的拉美裔人） … …我敢肯定，这只是时间的问题和一些吸嗅天拿水。 But can we pray for our own hearts when God puts this situation on our doorstep to do something about.但我们可以祈祷，为我们自己的心中，当上帝把这种情况对我们家门口做一些事情。
Espiritu Paz…nothing would make me more excited than to see our prayers and posture as a group of people (both at Missio Dei and in the larger Christian community) shift outward like that.艾斯比利图巴兹…没有什么会令我更兴奋，比看到我们的祈祷和姿态，作为一个群体的人（无论是在dei使命和在较大的基督教社区）转移向外一样。 I think we sometimes avoid that sort of prayer because we are afraid of the consequences.我认为我们有时避免那种祈祷，因为我们害怕的后果。 We pray for ourselves because we already know what we want for ourselves.我们祈祷，为自己，因为我们已经知道我们想要为我们自己。 When we pray for these others…these messy people, then we are putting ourselves out there to possibly become part of the answer to the prayer.当我们祈祷，为这些别人…这些乱七八糟的人，那么我们是把自己有可能成为答案的一部分，以祈祷。 And when you stop and think about it, making that sort of change in emphasis is terrifying.当你停止思考，作出这样的改变，重点是可怕的。
Wow.哇。 I think I found you from Wilsonian, I am so glad I did.我想我发现你从wilsonian ，我很高兴我做到了。 I agree with you completely and thank you for raising a topic that is hardly ever talked about.我同意你的完全，并感谢你提出的一个话题，就是几乎没有谈到。
One thought I had while reading this - the men that “visit” these sex slaves are a huge part of the problem.一想我已阅读，而这一点-男子说， “访问” ，这些性奴隶，是一个巨大的问题的一部分。 They need to be stopped and they need some sort of “help” because there would be no need for sex slaves and prostitution if there was no “market” for it.他们必须停止和他们需要某种形式的“帮助” ，因为不会有任何需要，为性奴隶和卖淫的，如果是没有“市场” 。 There is something very wrong when that many men in a single community visit ONE house in one night…multiply that by all the others women/children being used as sex slaves…wow.有一些非常错误时，许多男人在一个单一的社区访问， 1家在一个晚上…乘以由所有其他妇女/儿童被用来作为性奴隶…哇。
One can police prostitution in ways that the largess of the punishment falls on the johns and those forced into such work are offered help.一可以警方卖淫的方式指出， largess的处罚适逢约翰和那些被迫到这些工作提供帮助。
You’re falling short in dealing with the issue if you focus only on what your community can do personally.您属于短期在处理这个问题如果你只集中于什么您的社区可以做个人。 This would be one of the potential issues a house church could make critical in its house church-style political activism, and having more viable options in state legislature elections would help a good deal in this regard as well…这将是一个潜在的问题的一所房子教会可以作出关键在其家庭教会式的政治活动，并有更多的可行方案，在州议会选举将有助于是一个很好的协议在这方面，以及…
dlw
Argh.啊。 I get your point.我收到您的一点。 But don’t you think that the huge bulk of the problem is that communities AREN’T involved?但你不认为庞大的大部分的问题是，社区不参与呢？ Politically active folks aren’t rare.在政治上活跃的乡亲并不少见。 Churches that do actually stuff to directly address the evils of society ARE.教会认为，这样做其实东西直接处理的祸害社会。 I know it doesn’t have to be an either/or.我知道这并不一定是一个要么/或。 I get that.我得到的。 But it seems like every time I make the point “hey we shouldn’t rely upon the government to get all of this stuff done…let’s BE the change we want to see instead of being inactive Christians who think voting gets the job done” you say “hey, don’t forget to vote.”但似乎每一次我作出一点， “嘿，我们不应该依靠政府，以获得这一切的东西…让做的是改变我们希望看到的不是被停播基督徒谁认为投票得到的工作， “你说： ”喂，不要忘记投票“ 。
Mark, thanks for the thoughtful post.马克，感谢周到的职位。 I was chatting the other day with a good friend of mine who teaches high school in an inner city school.我当时正在聊天的其他天同的一位好朋友排雷谁教高中，在一个市中心的学校。 She shared the story of a young man who has no one to support him as he comes from a totally broken home.她赞同的故事，一个年轻的男子谁已没有人支持他，因为他来自一个完全破碎的家。 The young man has been touched that my teacher friend would take any time out of her routine to encourage him and guide him.青年男子已被触及，我国教师的朋友，会采取任何时候出她的例行鼓励他，引导他。 I’m struck that people like that from broken homes, along with people involved in sex-trafficking, gangs, immoral relationships, etc don’t necessarily need to hear the Gospel, so much as they need to experience it.我击中的人一样，从破碎的家庭，随着人民所涉及的性贩运，帮派，不道德的关系等并不一定需要听到福音，这么多，因为他们需要的经验。 Alas, it is much easier for us as the church to talk to others about Jesus than it is to be Jesus to them.可惜的是，这是容易得多，我们作为教会谈一谈对他人的关于耶稣比，这是要耶稣给他们。 And I think we need to pray that the paths of our lives would intersect wtih these folks.我认为我们需要祈祷的道路，我们的生活会相交，与这些乡亲。 If we strategically avoid coming across their path, it’s much easier to justify our inaction.如果我们在战略上避免今后全国的道路上，它的容易得多，我们不采取行动的理由。
well said.说得好。
This is in response to BARBARA.这是回应芭芭拉。
The issues may be as you perceive them in many places, where the problem is largely with the personal problems of the men that visit the “houses of prostitution”.该问题可能是由于您的看法，他们在许多地方，那里的问题，主要是与个人问题的男性认为，访问“的房子卖淫” 。 But I do know that there is another layer of “issue” involved in the problem in Minneapolis.但我知道是有另一层的“问题”所涉及的问题在明尼阿波利斯。 It involves the Latino and his/her economic exploitation.它涉及到拉丁裔和他/她的经济剥削。 What else will happen when the economy is so bad in the pueblito that you can’t raise your family off raising the same crop the previous generation did.还有什么会发生，当经济是如此恶劣，在pueblito你不能提高您的家庭小康，提高同一作物前一代没有。 So, the man of a young family jumps the border to make some quick money, because his cousins told him how to do it.因此，该名男子的一个年轻的家庭跳跃边界作出一些快钱，因为他的表弟告诉他怎样做。 He lives in an over-crowded dilapidated apartment off Bloomington and Lake with his cousins.他生活在一个过度拥挤破旧的公寓小康的布鲁明顿和湖与他的表兄弟。 After 2 years anyone’s gonna miss his wife and children especially Latinos who find primary identity in family.后二年任何人的在哪里怀念他的妻子和孩子，尤其是拉美裔人谁找到小学的身份在家庭。 It might seem worth the $20 bucks for 10 minutes with a lady of the night–who the cousins found out about.它可能似乎是值得的20元钱10分钟，与夫人晚间谁是堂兄弟，发现了约。 Believe me there are reasons I know this scenario.相信我有原因，我知道这种情况。 Exploited people exploit people.剥削人民的剥削人民。 So the question is…where does the problem begin?所以，问题是…究竟问题开始？ You can counsel Latino husbands who have left their wife and kid for 2 years till you are blue in the face and I don’t think it’s going to do any good until we deal with who’s the economic culprit.您可以在律师的拉美裔丈夫谁已离开他们的妻子和孩子为二年，直至你是蓝色，在面对，我不认为这将会带来什么好处，直到我们处理谁的经济的罪魁祸首。
MVS:But don’t you think that the huge bulk of the problem is that communities AREN’T involved? mvs ：但你不认为庞大的大部分的问题是，社区不参与呢？
dlw: Clearly, community would be critical for good enforcement, but often its just as big of a deal that there are variations in property values and so inner cities can’t afford adequate police-support to keep crime and illegal activities down. dlw ：很明显，社会将是至关重要的良好的执法，但往往只是作为一个大的处理有很多不同的属性值等内在的城市不能提供足够的警察支持继续犯罪和非法活动。
Politically active folks aren’t rare.在政治上活跃的乡亲并不少见。
dlw: The sorts of “rules of thumbs” many people use for politics don’t qualify as politically active. dlw ：各种各样的“大拇指规则” ，很多人利用为政治服务不符合政治活跃。 People focusing activism on building up the institutions of poorer parts of the urban city are relatively rare.人的积极性就重点建设院校较差的部分市区的城市是比较少见的。
MVS:Churches that do actually stuff to directly address the evils of society ARE. mvs ：教会认为，这样做其实东西直接处理的祸害社会。 I know it doesn’t have to be an either/or.我知道这并不一定是一个要么/或。 I get that.我得到的。
dlw: Are you saying that most urban churches do not do much to help out former-prostitutes or what-not? dlw ：你是说大部分城市的教堂不这样做很大的帮助前-妓女或有什么不能呢？ This seems like partly a product of economic segregation.这似乎是一样，部分产品的经济隔离。 There are ways to deal with that and with rising oil prices, a significant chunk of the suburban sprawl is going to get hedged back in… But yeah Churches shd directly address these evils, but we do this in tandem with how the State selectively uses the evil means of the threat of violence to check evil.有办法处理，以及与石油价格上涨，显着大块郊区的扩张，是会得到对冲早在啊… …但教会的可持续发展直接处理这些罪恶，但我们这样做是在配合国家如何有选择性地使用邪恶的手段，暴力威胁的检查邪恶。 We, in the Churches, can together participate in the process of using ends-means analysis of how such threat of violence can be adjusted to be more effective at reducing particular evils.我们，在教会，可以一起参与这一进程使用完-手段分析如何等暴力威胁的，可以予以调整，以更有效的减少，特别是邪恶。
MVS:But it seems like every time I make the point “hey we shouldn’t rely upon the government to get all of this stuff done…let’s BE the change we want to see instead of being inactive Christians who think voting gets the job done” you say “hey, don’t forget to vote.” mvs ：但好像每一次我作出一点， “嘿，我们不应该依靠政府，以获得这一切的东西…让做的是改变我们希望看到的不是被停播基督徒谁认为投票获得的工作， “你说： ”喂，不要忘记投票“ 。
dlw: In other words, we’re going around in circles again. dlw ：在其他的话，我们将会围绕在各界再次。 Or, we’re both responding to the same outrage in our own ways.或者，我们都是响应相同的暴行在以自己的方式。 I don’t know.我不知道。 I’m not sure how good I would be at working directly with ex-prostitutes.我不知道有多好，我会在工作直接与前妓女。 Our lives wd be very far apart and it wd be hard for us to have a lot of points of contact.我们生活的WD很相距遥远，它的WD很难让我们有很多的联系点。 I think toughening up enforcement of laws against prostitution and pushing for programs like the Basic Income Guarantee(It’s just like the flat tax but with an income transfer not tied to how much one earns.) wd do wonders for USAmerican society, especially those at the bottom, and the ministry of decentralized house churches.我认为增韧执法，法律对卖淫和推动程序一样，基本收入保证（这就像单位税，但与收入转移无关多少收入。 ）的WD奇迹，为usamerican社会，特别是那些在底部，和财政部的分散家庭教会。
So I’m not contradicting you, I’m just saying that damn, it ain’t the economics of Jesus to forgo participation in the remaking of the rules that govern us as as a critical part of how we love our neighbors.因此我并不矛盾你，我只是说，可恶，这不是经济学的耶稣放弃参与，在重塑该规则的规管，我们作为一种关键的一部分，如何我们爱我们的邻居。 Or more positively, I think too many people ministering in inner cities get burnt out in two or three years over trying too hard to change things with their community.或更积极，我觉得有太多人服事在内蒙古的城市烧伤，在两年或3年以上的努力难以改变的东西与他们的社区。 I don’t want you to get burnt out and believe that your community approach with Missio Dei may be critical for avoiding that.我不希望你得到烧毁，并相信你的社区的做法，与使命dei可能是至关重要的，避免这一点。 But some of that tendency for people to burn out may be because the Social Gospellers were half right that the “structures” really are making sin to fester.但有些人认为的趋势，人民烧坏可能是因为社会gospellers一半的权利，认为“结构”真的是决策单溃烂。 If so then we need a double-barrel approach to do justice to the matter, so yeah my reminders to vote are needed.如果是的话，然后我们需要一个双桶的做法，这样做正义事，所以啊，我提醒投票的需要。 It’sa matter of exhortation to avoid sins of omission.这件事的劝告，以避免捷联惯导系统的遗漏。
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