I live in a country where the politicians are as corrupt as one can be. The clergy loves them. They love them so much they mention them in their prayers daily. If you ask the clergy why they mention the corrupt politicians in their prayers they will either ask you who you are to doubt the politicians or they will say that it could be even worst if they where not to pray for them daily.
I live in a country where the clergy loves everyone. Everyone but the romas, the the jews, the muslims, the homosexuals, the drugs abusers and the sexual workers. Funny, they never mention them in their prayers. Probably because their desperate situation could never get any worst than already is. Why waist a good prayer?
Today I will talk about the sex workers. As I already mentioned, the church doesn’t love them. They could love and publicly embrace a racist, but they could never care for a sex worker. They actually hate them so much the clergy did everything in their power to make sure the prostitution never gets legalized. I am talking about a church that can’t share a hot soup with the poor, while they get millions of Euros from the budget to build more and more churches.
The clergy hates Stela for two reasons – she is both a sex worker and a heroin abuser. Because the faith will come to an end if we legalize prostitution, the church has no problem to watch Stela being abuse by everyone, including by those representing the law.
Girls like Stela they get beaten by police officers almost every night. Or they get raped, or robbed. And those are the ‘lucky’ ones. They never know when it’s their turn to be given a ride in a police car outside Bucharest only to be abandoned in the woods, 20-30 km away from the city, in the middle of the night. In this country, because they ‘break the law’ it means they have no rights as human beings.
Stela lives with rent. She keeps all her belongings in a luggage. It’s like she’s all the time ready to go on a trip. She is afraid of that trip but she needs to be prepared. Her life it’s all about today. She can not dare think of tomorrow. She barely eats, smokes a lot and shoots heroine 2-3 times a day. It’a a miracle she is still alive. But she is funny and kind. It’s a pity the clergy can not see past her profession.
Mihaela lives in a trailer. She has a baby girl, Denisa. She is a romanian of roma origins. Like many romanians, often, a slice of bread it’s all she has to offer to her daughter. But she loves Denisa. She is also a heroine abuser.
She works with Stela. They keep each-other company, they try to protect each-other.
They both struggle to make ends meet even though they work every day, regardless the weather or their personal health.
In the eyes of the law they are criminals…In the eyes of the church they are sinners…In the eyes of most of the romanians they represent the lowest form of life…In my own eyes they are just fighting for survival. We have to respect that. Is that too much to ask?
