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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: ChristianDefender

Good to know that California doesn't have all the "Kooks"!


21 posted on 12/03/2004 11:10:39 PM PST by Walkenfree (Bad can get worse & good can get better.)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

22 posted on 12/03/2004 11:15:04 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

What a bunch of freaks!


23 posted on 12/03/2004 11:15:49 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: ChristianDefender

We are living in times of moral insanity.


24 posted on 12/03/2004 11:15:54 PM PST by Manic_Episode (OUT OF ORDER)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
You are a cruel and heartless person to post such a link.
(It is more than my old eyes can take)
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25 posted on 12/03/2004 11:16:42 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Lijahsbubbe
I know one pew that I won't be using anytime soon.
26 posted on 12/03/2004 11:16:53 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham
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To: Lijahsbubbe; fortunecookie; arasina; onyx; cyborg

Well isn't that special?


27 posted on 12/03/2004 11:18:30 PM PST by Petronski (WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves.)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Dang! I just had to shoot my monitor with the 12 ga and gouge out my own eyes because of you.


28 posted on 12/03/2004 11:19:11 PM PST by Manic_Episode (OUT OF ORDER)
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To: Lijahsbubbe
Good Heavens! My Eyes! My Eyes!
Make it stop!
You too are a cruel and heartless person for posting that pic.
29 posted on 12/03/2004 11:19:19 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

Eww. The geriatric version of Desperate (for attention) Housewives.


30 posted on 12/03/2004 11:19:28 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe
I propose a new FR rule - no pictures of Helen Thomas should EVER be posted !! (basically the reverse of the Ann Coulter rule)

But, hey, that's just my opinion ...

31 posted on 12/03/2004 11:20:29 PM PST by UpstateNYer
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To: Fiddlstix

LOL. Sometimes it's so much fun to be cruel.

Imagine the fools who will pay for a calendar.


32 posted on 12/03/2004 11:20:47 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe

May the flea's of a thousand camel's infest your armpit's for posting that pic.


33 posted on 12/03/2004 11:21:20 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Lijahsbubbe

I will never forgive you for that. NEVER!
You will pay. Oh will you pay.
You sick sorry &%@#@^& YOU WILL PAY.


34 posted on 12/03/2004 11:21:58 PM PST by Manic_Episode (OUT OF ORDER)
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To: Lijahsbubbe; Fiddlstix
For some peculiar reason, I prefer Nicolette Sheridan.

Call me crazy!

(Shrugs shoulders.)

35 posted on 12/03/2004 11:22:55 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham
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To: Manic_Episode

Hahahahaha......


36 posted on 12/03/2004 11:24:07 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: ChristianDefender

>>Cook said she wrote to her rector, the Rev. Joy Rogers<<

How did I know. And lemme guess... she has short hair, a sticky build, and wears flats.


37 posted on 12/03/2004 11:25:51 PM PST by dangus
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G.I.L.F.?


38 posted on 12/03/2004 11:26:39 PM PST by KneelBeforeZod (Deus Lo Volt!)
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To: dighton; mhking; martin_fierro
Just damn! I have new desktop wallpaper!


39 posted on 12/03/2004 11:28:01 PM PST by Petronski (WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves.)
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To: KneelBeforeZod

BOL!





(bustin' out laughing!)


40 posted on 12/03/2004 11:29:18 PM PST by Petronski (WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves.)
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