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After a week of talking about sex, we should not get too hot and bothered debating whether Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman is a tiresome buffoon or whether prostitution will be legalized. One question is settled; the other is moot.

But a discussion, maybe even an argument worth having, is what kind of community we strive to be and whether we are content to tell a tale of two cities. One is where Goodman, a Dickensian character if ever there were one, sets the tone, a place where anything that’s legal is just fine, where taste is optional, where no sin is too sinful. The other is a wholly different venue, one where parents are proud to raise their children, where culture, sophistication and erudition are prized, where family values refer to something other than mob mores.

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