Mike,
1. it's not one city...it's San Francisco - the most liberal radical place in the Western Hemisphere :-) ...enlighten me where else it was on the ballot...if they lost 16 points in SF, in most other places it would lost by 90%...anyway, legalizing prostitution is far from mainstream, and it has nothing to do with religion...people just would want to live in the kind of society where it's a norm to "buy" intimacy, I guess...
2. Ginsburg is out of mainstream, it's a fact...lowering age of consent to 12 is..mm...radical, among her other views (integrating the Boy and Girl Scouts and All Boy, All girl schools)...if you want, I can dig out her record and opinions...I wouldn't be calling anyone a radical if they were not (especially a Jew, you see I am nice to you :-) )...but she is the most out there on the court...
just out of curiosity, how much is it today?
I mean if people want to pay for sex, do they really need a legit business to do it?