Last year close to 1 million human beings were estimated to have been sold as slaves. Whilst many young women and children, are simply abducted and put to work as domestic servants, many others are sold into the sex trade or suffer brutal lives as labourers in mines and factories.

To add insult to injury, in many countries they are treated as criminals, arrested, jailed, and deported. Both American and Australia can hold their heads in shame at this. Such treatment, by instilling fear of the authorities, only strengthens the hold traffickers have over these workers.

I see numerous Christian blogs consuming themselves with angst over the moral dilemmas of homosexuality and poligomy . Why, because they are easy. So we focus on this while we turn a blind eye to a moral and ethical dilema of 1,000,000 people a year being traded, often for less than the value of a horse or a pig.

Pesonally I have no problem with homosexuality, it is each persons own choice. For me a least, what someone get's up to in the privacy of their bedroom is so insignificant compared to some of the great human tragedies that are unfolding in the world today that to be agonising over it's morality or otherwise is obscene.

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