More proof that the word "Christian" has been watered down:

Germany, host of the 2006 World Cup, is getting a head start on an anticipated surge in the sex trade during the tournament. About 40,000 prostitutes are expected to visit the country come Cup time, and officials, concerned that current red light district housing won't contain the bulging population, are erecting wooden huts for the ladies and their customers.

"If hundreds of foreign women join the 380 prostitutes already on Dortmund's strips near the stadium we'll be bursting at the seams," said a Dortmund spokesman. "We have to prepare now, or it will turn into Sodom and Gomorrah."

Dirk Lamprecht, a Christian Democrat, came up with the idea, inspired by drive-in brothels in Cologne. "The boxes," he says, "would certainly be a better alternative to prostitutes offering their services on the streets, in parks or in local zoos."

I also just perused the latest copy of National Geographic today, it had a great article on the aid given to Iran, NO, the tsunamai, and a quick blurb on the civil war in Uganda, which I heard of first-hand when I was there. What I didn't really comprehend until this article was that the civil war is due to the Lord's Resistance Army (formerly known as the Uganda Peoples' Democratic Christian Army (UPDCA)) in Uganda seeking to rule the country in a Christian manner. Sounds good, but the way they do that is to kidnap women and use them as sex slaves and trade, and kidnap children and force them to fight for their cause. Something doesn't seem right there.