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Ads alluding to exchanges of cash for sexual services and seeking massage clients are still showing up in Casual Encounters section of Craigslist's websites in New York, Las Vegas and other parts of the country. The controversial Adult Services section on the classified advertisement site's homepage was replaced on Friday with a black and white "CENSORED" box that does not link, just days after a group of state attorneys general had released a statement that they believed the section should be eliminated. In the statement, attorneys general in 17 states said the site was aiding in illegal exploitation, prostitution and human trafficking. Craigslist has made no statement since the change to the site, so it is not clear whether the Adult Services section is being removed permanently. In the past, Craigslist has maintained that the Adult Services section was for legitimate adult services, not prostitution.

Yet, saying that makes this conclusion all the more controversial. If it were based simply on Catholic teaching, opponents could say in our pluralistic context, "You Catholics are entitled to your opinion, but that is not binding on others. But if you deny that there is such a thing as truth, that is, the truth, not just my truth and your truth, then the matter becomes merely an exercise of raw political power in terms of who has more votes to impose an agenda, and that is what makes it ultimately tyrannical. This was described by then-Cardinal Ratzinger in a speech that he gave in Rome in 1996: In a culture dominated by relativism, he said, "The majority determines what must be regarded as true and just.