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Church ladies go topless in pews
WorldNetDaily ^ | 12-03-04 | WND

Posted on 12/03/2004 10:50:17 PM PST by ChristianDefender

In Battle Creek, Mich., 14 women of St. Thomas Episcopal Church – between ages 55 and 82 – actually bared their breasts to raise money for breast cancer research.

Calling themselves The Belles of St. Mary's, the women bared nearly all in an in-pew photo op at St. Thomas church for a calendar they hope will raise money for research.

But a mother of four, Helen Cook, who attends the parish, was outraged. Cook said she wrote to her rector, the Rev. Joy Rogers, and the parish's assistant, the Rev. Chris Yaw, saying they would not be returning to St. Thomas, and explaining why:

"I told them both that I found the calendar objectionable, inappropriate and that it ran counter to the morals I am attempting to instill into my children. 'Mother Joy', whose name takes on a whole new meaning to me now, never even bothered to answer me. No e-mail, no phone call, nothing. Father Chris answered very briefly, with the argument that there are two sides to everything and that if I reconsidered, to get in touch with him."

The national Episcopal Church magazine, Episcopal Life, reports religion writer David Virtue features this Playboy-style parish under the headline BARING (ALMOST ALL) FOR THE FAITH.

Additionally hilarious and comic nonsense news is in Baltimore.

Here, lawyers for the Tribune Company in Chicago, which own the Baltimore Sun, have charged the Republican governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich, with violating what they termed "free speech protections that guarantee equal treatment for members of the news media."

This was occasioned because Gov. Ehrlich, after two years of what he recalled as repeatedly hostile, inaccurate or made-up writing by Sun political reporter David Nitkin and columnist Michael Olesker, took action. He directed all of his administration's press officers to cut off all relations with Nitkin and Olesker (though not with other Sun reporters).

Ehrlich's press secretary, Greg Massoni, explained:

"This action in no way denies Olesker and Nitkin any freedom to write what they please. But there is no constitutional requirement that we help them!"

If the Tribune Company is so asinine as to sue the governor – and such lawsuit is not immediately hurled out of court in summary judgment – I believe that I should surely go to that same court and file suit against President George W. Bush. For four years he has only once recognized me for a question. (His answer evoked ridicule in Newsweek).

Moreover, when I attended last December's White House Christmas Party for White House correspondents, Mr. Bush welcomed me by saying:

"Here comes the troublemaker!"

The fact that I was secretly delighted, and the fact that his press secretary, Scott McClellan, always recognizes me for questions at his daily news briefings, I confess, would inhibit me from suing the president.

There is also my great desire not to resemble in any way this latest legal idiocy of the Tribune Company and its property in Baltimore.

Both the Sun and its fellow left-wing daily, the Washington Post, published furiously self-serving editorials "SHOOTING MESSENGERS" and "MR. EHRLICH'S GAG ORDER."

But Gov. Ehrlich admits, enthusiastically, that he no longer reads either of these papers – like a growing number of his constituents, as evidenced in their current circulation losses.

Instead, the governor regularly appears on talk radio, which, with the Internet, are the New Media, as distinct from the Old Big Media – which gives one 1 percent of its product to public expression, while we give 40 percent.


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To: TADSLOS

Damn! You beat me to it!


121 posted on 12/04/2004 9:56:32 AM PST by Jackknife (.......Land of the Free,because of the Brave.)
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To: GummyIII

The horror...the horror...


122 posted on 12/04/2004 9:59:16 AM PST by JusPasenThru (If you want to get it movin' you must learn to doof da bouven.)
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To: ChristianDefender
In Battle Creek, Mich., 14 women of St. Thomas Episcopal Church
– between ages 55 and 82 –
actually bared their breasts to raise money for breast cancer research.


When my engagement to an Episcopalian lady broke down a decade ago...
how could I have know that the Lord meant it for good?

I just can't see myself attending what is increasingly
the Church of The NativityNudity and Gayity.

(I say that with apologies to the shrinking body of virtuous Episcopalians)
123 posted on 12/04/2004 10:00:52 AM PST by VOA
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To: Ladysmith

I guess I should clarify. God forbid someone might see more of a breast! In breastfeeding the nipple is exposed for a flash of a moment. These women weren't even showing THAT much. That was my point.

*shrugs* I *still* don't see the big deal. More power to them.


124 posted on 12/04/2004 10:07:29 AM PST by twinzmommy
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To: finnigan2
"Sagging in the Pews".

LOL!

125 posted on 12/04/2004 10:10:34 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: WorkingClassFilth

That and grown men becoming butt pirates and impaling each other in the unholiest of holes.


126 posted on 12/04/2004 10:11:32 AM PST by expatguy (Fallujah Delenda Est!!)
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To: ChristianDefender

LOL, when I clicked I said to myself "Betchya their Episcopal."


127 posted on 12/04/2004 10:12:44 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: GummyIII
making fun of the women

Give me a break. Do you think they deserve respect? They're disrespecting themselves! They deserve respect about as much as the next whore.

128 posted on 12/04/2004 10:13:24 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: VOA
I say that with apologies to the shrinking sagging body of virtuous Episcopalians)
129 posted on 12/04/2004 10:15:28 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Disrespecting themselves? How do you know they don't have tank tops on pulled low? The author leads one to believe they "nearly bared all"...but doesn't say if they nearly bared all their breasts or all of themselves...and I suspect s/he doesn't even know. No one said they were bare all the way down. Who's having the lewd thoughts here? Ahem...


130 posted on 12/04/2004 10:16:36 AM PST by GummyIII (America's number one energy crisis is Monday morning.)
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To: GummyIII
Which of God's standards have these women forsaken?

If it's so cool, why didn't "Mother Joy" get in on the pic? Or do you think that would be crossing a line?

How about the old men doing a calendar? They could show only a part of their wienies. After all if they didn't show the whole thing, what's the big deal?

And then they could have a calendar with all of the Reverends, male and female, showing parts of their boobs and wienies, after all, if it's for a good cause, where's the harm?

131 posted on 12/04/2004 10:19:27 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe

LOL...these women didn't show their bodies except from above the nipple line down...I don't mind if a man does the same thing. Bet God doesn't either. You are taking it out of context...


132 posted on 12/04/2004 10:21:14 AM PST by GummyIII (America's number one energy crisis is Monday morning.)
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To: GummyIII

Oh please, nobody is thinking lewd but you. I'M the one who said RIDICULOUS.

And if they wanted people to think they had tops on, they would have shown them.


133 posted on 12/04/2004 10:21:18 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: GummyIII

I was perfectly in context.


134 posted on 12/04/2004 10:24:44 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: GummyIII
Uh...from above the nipple line UP...oops...
135 posted on 12/04/2004 10:24:47 AM PST by GummyIII (America's number one energy crisis is Monday morning.)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

What's the problem here?

It's a bunch of cute old grannies trying to do some good. I'm not offended in any way.


136 posted on 12/04/2004 10:25:51 AM PST by Poser (Joining Belly Girl in the Pajamahadeen)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

LOL...I see your self-righteousness and raise you a "pompous...."


137 posted on 12/04/2004 10:26:00 AM PST by GummyIII (America's number one energy crisis is Monday morning.)
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To: najida
I'm right there with you, najida.... well, except for the "jars of Gerber." I see them as multi-purpose, not just jars of Gerber,* and agree with Robert A. Heinlein: "Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a womans breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy."

It's a great cause, and I applaud these beautiful women...except for their disrespect to the church community.

Somehow I don't see Mary doing this. And let's see...WWJD? Do a Chippendale's for prostate cancer awareness?


*At least I didn't say "jugs of Carnation," eh?
138 posted on 12/04/2004 10:26:20 AM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: Lijahsbubbe
I say that with apologies to the shrinking sagging body of virtuous Episcopalians)

One picture worth thousand words.
But "stay the h-ll way from these nutburgers" will nicely encapsulate the message.
139 posted on 12/04/2004 10:26:26 AM PST by VOA
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To: Gondring

I agree they could have found a more appropriate place, except I suspect this and other church buildings have been used for many so-called "good/religious" events that God was not a part of more than this but no one would dare say that.


140 posted on 12/04/2004 10:30:45 AM PST by GummyIII (America's number one energy crisis is Monday morning.)
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