PEEPIN' STEPHEN: Stephen Baldwin, a born-again Christian, plans to snap photos of license plates of people going into a Nyack store once it's a sex shop, then publicize their names. Photo: Djamilla Rosa/WireImage.com
Posted on 01/18/2006 8:08:47 AM PST by Liz
PEEPIN' STEPHEN: Stephen Baldwin, a born-again Christian, plans to snap photos of license plates of people going into a Nyack store once it's a sex shop, then publicize their names. Photo: Djamilla Rosa/WireImage.com
Actor Stephen Baldwin has his shorts in a bunch over a sex shop opening near his estate in Rockland County.....
The least-known of the Baldwins, Stephen, a born-again Christian, parked himself outside the Route 59 location in Nyack and took snapshots of construction workers walking in and out of the building.
Once the smut shop opens in a few months, the 39-year-old star of "The Usual Suspects" plans to photograph patrons' license plates and run their names in the local newspaper to shame them from ever returning.
His beef is that the store is within a quarter-mile of the community's residential area. "This is a thoroughfare that I drive by many, many times as do college kids, mothers with their children," Baldwin said.
He said he and other residents protested at Nyack planning-board meetings and asked the owner, Quintus Algama of Hollis, Queens, to choose a more distant location, but he wouldn't listen.
In addition to selling sex toys and porn, the shop will also feature video booths where patrons can watch hardcore flicks in total privacy.
"These guys want to do this business, God bless 'em. That's between them and God. They'll have to deal with that for eternity. But the people of Nyack do not want this location where it is," Baldwin said.
Baldwin said he's already enlisted the help of dozens of students of nearby Nyack College who'll be at the store the day it opens to protest.
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Did Christ grant you the ability to raise Lazarus from his tomb?
Do not presume then you are clear to immitate other actions, that he did not instruct explicitely were yours.
HEY I think if a porn shop was being put in your neighborhood, after getting no results from city zoning, just putting a little daylight on the proceedings is a pretty fair way to go about it.
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em2vn
By your reasoning pro-life demonstrators outside of abortion clinics aren't empowered to voice their pro-life views,in said locations.
Nope, they can demonstrate, within the bounds of polite behavior.
Molly
By your quotes, are you contending that Baldwin is taking the "life, liberty or property" of porn customers by snapping and publishing their pictures?
Yep, trying to 'shame' someone for buying 'sinful' products is a form of character defamation, - a malicious attempt to injure a persons reputation.
What is he doing that any papparazzi wouldn't do?
You agree that people have a 'right' to stalk you, then publish any perceived 'sinful' behavior they might find?
In my day nosy busybodies frequently ended up with fat lips.
Baldwin is no doubt relying on the cops to protect him from a bloody nose.
born again and a public Bush supporter, he's not afraid to go against his family (brothers all liberal Dims') and Hollywood (his paychecks) to do what he thinks is right! God Bless Him....
Lk 17:6. If you have faith as small as a mustard seed , you can say to this mulberry tree. "Be uprooted and planted in the sea" and it will obey you.
How much faith aperson has has nothing to do with this.
Do not presume then you are clear to immitate other actions, that he did not instruct explicitely were yours.
We are to expose sin. Stop being a doormat. Jesus wasn't.
Dr. Kinsey "normalized" it in the 50's.
Many Freepers are justifying it. Yuk.
"Let me ask you a question. Why would they be embarrassed? Hmm?"
They should be more than embarrassed, they should be furious that some moral vigilante decided to photograph them and hold them out as immoral persons because of the moral vigilante's personal belief that their entering a legal business is immoral. No doubt Baldwin will be sued if he publishes these photos and implies these people are immoral.
'I see nothing Christian about the activity that this guys planning to engage in.'
Realy? If exposure dosen't shame them, they won't care; and if it does......they shouldn't be there.
You can't say it, can you? So I will. They DON'T want ANYONE to know they are there. Why not? If it's ok then what's the big deal?
I'm with you John wouldn't have put up with very much of this Howard Stern, Hollywood gay, children out of wedlock, BS.
As long as your willing to hold your toy in front of God later... have at it.
I follow what you say but I dont agree with it.
You should have a softer heart to Christians that work to remove sin from the world.
'Committing sin against others, in order to coerce or intimidate them into "living right" has nothing to do with the teachings of Christ.'
True, but since when is taking a photo in public a SIN ?
"True, but since when is taking a photo in public a SIN ?"
It's not a sin. Publishing photos and implying those in the photos are immoral, is shameful and most likely actionable.
If I was that electrician, I would not be ashamed; I would walk in with my uniform on, and my toolbox in hand......
"If I was that electrician, I would not be ashamed; I would walk in with my uniform on, and my toolbox in hand....."
And I suppose if you were his accountant, you would carry a sign- "I am an accountant, here on official business" just in case your photo appeared somewhere inplying you are an immoral person.
You'll have to do better than that..Pretty weak.
"They DON'T want ANYONE to know they are there."
Who this THEY, you speak about? How do you know what other people want? Why would you be so embarrassed to walk into an adult store? Would you be worried that people like you would think you were immoral for going into an adult store?
Spoken like a true romantic.....ewwwww! :P
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