OPINION

Sex should not enter into business deals

Jarrett Mitchell

Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners Limited Partnership has proposed 30-inch diameter pipeline that would flow southeast across the state of Iowa, from Lyon to Lee county. In their quest to gain eminent domain on properties in the path of the pipe, it has been claimed that many things have been offered in return for access to these properties.

As a Christian, it would be deeply troubling to me if Energy Transfer Partners or anyone acting as their agent proposed sexual acts as a form of payment for access to property and ultimately the numbers needed for imminent domain. I believe that our society has moved past a time when sex can be used as a form of payment or leverage in a business deal.

Jarrett Mitchell

Morse