South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster needs to get laid

Last week Craigslist got rid of its “erotic services” section because people were offering companionship for money but that “anything else” that may happen is the decision of two consenting adults and blah blah blah. Basically Craigslist allowed people to offer sex for money in case anyone was unaware (I was until Rick Sanchez’s show on CNN pointed out this section, and I still didn’t believe it existed).

Well CL apparently replaced it with an “Adult Services” section, and the segregationist right wing theocrat Attorney General of South Carolina is still unhappy about Craigslist’s offerings:

Craigslist’s promise to remove its Erotic Services category, replacing it with a screened Adult Services section, was apparently not enough for South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, who announced plans to prosecute the popular online classifieds Web site, of which eBay owns a minority stake. “As of 5:00 p.m. this afternoon, the craigslist South Carolina site continues to display advertisements for prostitution and graphic pornographic material,” said a statement on the Attorney General’s Web site. “This content was not removed as we requested. We have no alternative but to move forward with criminal investigation and potential prosecution.”

The man in charge of Craigslist responded:

“He evidently feels justified in singling out craigslist for investigation, and publicly condemning me personally as being worthy of criminal prosecution,” Buckmaster wrote in a blog posting. “Seriously? The craigslist adult services section for Greenville, SC has a total of 1 ad for the last 3 days, featuring a photograph of a fully clothed person.” Buckmaster went on to site the overall tameness of Craiglist’s South Carolina postings, compared to the adult services ads in other traditional media venues throughout the state. “Would you target a venue with 9 PG-13 rated ads, or one with 250 XXX rated ones?” he wrote.

This is what happens when people who are insanely religious acquire the power to enforce laws, they forget they’re forced to stay within the guidelines of the state and US constitution, and think that the “laws” created by some mythical Jew living in the clouds is greater than their secular restrictions.