Posted on 10/24/2014 9:36:26 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
This year marks the 50th Anniversary since 68-year-old international icon Dolly Parton came to Nashville. The fourth of 12 siblings who shared a one-room cabin, the East Tennessee native was so poor growing up that her father paid the doctor who delivered her with a bag of cornmeal. The day after her high school graduation, Parton left the Smoky Mountains for Music City, where she shepherded her career from singing on The Porter Wagoner Show, a syndicated music-variety series that aired from 1960 to 1981, to winning seven Grammys and scoring 25 No. 1 songs on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart -- a record for a female artist.
Dolly Parton: The Billboard Photo Shoot
On a recent fall afternoon at Nashville's NorthStar Studios, Parton is an animated conversationalist, throwing her head back and laughing often. In person, the legendary entertainer possesses a down-home, self-effacing charm -- disarming for someone who helms an empire that includes the Pigeon Forge, Tenn.-based Dollywood theme park, which annually hosts nearly 2.5 million visitors, and a valuable publishing catalog of such songs as "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You," which she took to No. 1 long before Whitney Houston. In 2014 alone, Parton's 42nd studio album, Blue Smoke, debuted at No. 2 on Top Country Albums and No. 6 on the Billboard 200 -- marking her highest-charting solo album on the latter list -- and wrapped a successful world tour that included performing for 170,000 at the United Kingdom's Glastonbury Festival.
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Do you do Gay Patriot? The gay conservative blog? Fantastic site. They just took up a collection for the Christian bakers who went out of business.
I am sure there just tons of fags in Bama. NOT!
Probably more in Ohio.
I agree.
I remember an interview she did many years ago when she first became successful.
She said if she only had a nickel to her name she would share it with her mother.
That always stuck in my mind.
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We can’t condemn someone to hell. That is for God to do, not us. But He did give us a moral standard, the Bible, whereby we can condemn immoral behavior. Jesus spoke of righteous judgment we can make in John 7:24. To deny the right,the duty, to make moral judgments is to deny that right and wrong exist. We are to leave final judgment to God.
Pardon my ignorance,but what is a tranny?
My usual reply to people who accuse me of being judgmental is, why is it okay for you to be judgmental about me.
That having been said, perhaps there is more thought to be done regarding judging:
Luke 6:37Perhaps there is a difference between discriminating between what is right and what is wrong in any given situation and judging?
"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.":Matthew 7:1
"Judge not, that ye be not judged."
I've read that we are to rely on both the Law (Mosaic Law) and the Love (Jesus and His Teaching) and that one without the other leads to error and consequences. I take this part seriously:
Matthew 6:12
"And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us."
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I won’t always be loving Dolly’s music, I do like that one “Love is like a butterfly”, “coat of many colors” is another good one.
I haven’t heard a lot of Dolly’s music, I know she did sing “Ballad of the Green Berets”.
Check this out:
“Dolly Parton’s sister Stella Parton to perform at Warrior Day Nov. 1”
“She has been named the Christian Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist and Mainstream Country Artist of the Year, the Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame’s Entertainer of the Year, Most Promising International Act by the CMA/GB, and Honorary Ambassador of Country Music in Kentucky, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and New Zealand. Paton has also been inducted into the American Country Music Hall of Fame. In addition to her performance, Warrior Mayor Johnny Ragland will present Parton with a key to the city.”
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/10/dolly_partons_sister_stella_pa.html
I for one, did not know about “Stella Parton”.
If this is Dolly’s sister, they must be separated age-wise, respectfully, by a couple of decades.
As have I.
If we could only remove words like “faggot” and “pervert” from our vocabulary, we might get more of them to vote for conservatives.
well, certainly yes if you actually are doing the very thing you’re judging someone else for doing.
in a larger sense, it depends. How bad the person you’re judging is acting versus your own actions. I believe that intent makes a very clear difference. We all have sins. Some actively believe their sins are good, and promote their sinful lifestyles and behaviors and do all they can to silence and punish those that don’t agree. On the other hand there are people who battle against their own sins and do their best to kill their sin nautre, but fail. The intent of one is to revel in their sin, the other fights theirs. I don’t think there’s hypocrisy of judging one who practices sin and thinks it’s great by one who knows it’s wrong, fights against it.
I think that’s why Christ says examine yourself first. Your conscience will tell you if you’re being hypocritical because you’re not addressing your own problem first. If you have no problem, you won’t judge that person hypocritically. In a larger sense if you have other unrelated problems you’re not addressing they will come to mind.
But pointing out evil, pointing out the evil other people do, is not wrong. It is required. It is shining the light of truth on it. It is exposing it. Darkness doesn’t like the light and can’t stand the light.
If we cannot judge others because we’re all sinners, we’d never be able to point out the evil others are doing or promoting. If we’re not working on our own issues but just going after others, that’s hypocrisy. If we are working on our own issues, we will not judge others hypocritically because we will know that we are working on our own flaws and weaknesses.
Good point. When they say that just tell them “but by saying that, you just judged yourself. How can you do that?”
Pervert is an accurate descriptor though. Sodomite is as well. Something that is perverted means it has been twisted and warped from its original meaning or intent. That is actually a perfect definition of homosexuality and every abnormal sexual act.
Faggot has meant a number of different definitions over the centuries having nothing to do with homosexuality.
They have hijacked the term “gay” away from its original meaning. Are you sad they’ve taken over this word? They are hardly “gay” happy people.
And as “accepted” sins multiply, those committing those sins try harder and harder to force others not to be able to call them sins, they don’t want to hear what they are doing, called sin. They can’t stand to be reminded others know the truth.
They then start punishing those who call what they do, sin. They get government to call what they do, good, and what those who know good and do good, evil.
(And of course those that do good aren’t perfect, but good in the sense they know God’s laws, and agree that they are good even though they can’t keep them perfectly, but they are with God when He says certain things are good and certain things are evil.)
Exactly and worth repeating.
Definitely more homos in Ohio, which sucks. I bet people didn’t judge their neighbors in Sodom and Gomorrah either.
If she were alive today I wonder what her mother would think of her selling out to the homosexual agenda and agreeing with homosexual “marriage”? Something tells me if her mother were alive today Miss Plastic would be singing a different tune about homosexuals.
“Faggot has meant a number of different definitions over the centuries having nothing to do with homosexuality.”
Riiiiight. Because that’s what’s being meant in these conversations.
Disingenuousness won’t win us any more converts, either.
God judges sodomy as an abomination.
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