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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: Lijahsbubbe

What in the heck is that woman in the 2nd row looking at???
LOL


61 posted on 12/04/2004 12:07:05 AM PST by LibertyRocks
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To: LibertyRocks

I think she spotted a zit.


62 posted on 12/04/2004 12:10:16 AM PST by Manic_Episode (OUT OF ORDER)
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To: Lijahsbubbe
Who do you think corrupted the younger generation ?
It's the passed generation responsibility to teach and pass down GOD's laws and words to the younger generation.
GOD made a whole generation to wander for 40 years until a new generation was mature enough to go into the promised land. The 60's generation is the generation that has corrupted this land, and these passed 2 generations. But, remember ? GOD will ALWAYS keep a remnant that has not bowed down to bail or Nebuchadnezzar
63 posted on 12/04/2004 12:12:04 AM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: LibertyRocks

***What in the heck is that woman in the 2nd row looking at???***

I think with your observation, we should have protested and recommended that the pic be eliminated in the posts section...

just pray that this kind of thing wont happen again...


64 posted on 12/04/2004 12:14:52 AM PST by ChristianDefender (Never give the enemy a foothold in your life)
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To: ChristianDefender
Hey, everyone's focused on the wrinkled old Episcopal (now more apostate than ever) bitties and ignoring THIS line:
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.
I think the author confuses "public expression" with "bias and fraud".
65 posted on 12/04/2004 12:15:02 AM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: Manic_Episode

Or a weird mole, huh? Should've retaken that shot! (STILL LMAO!)


66 posted on 12/04/2004 12:18:06 AM PST by LibertyRocks
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To: LibertyRocks
I don't know, do you think she can even see?
67 posted on 12/04/2004 12:20:00 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: ChristianDefender

In all seriousness... the thought of being topless in church, and seeing these women this way does makes me feel like running to a confessional even though I haven't been a practicing Catholic in 15 years. There is something wrong with this picture, and it's not the woman in the 2nd row. I certainly wouldn't show this to my children...


68 posted on 12/04/2004 12:20:55 AM PST by LibertyRocks
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To: ChristianDefender
I think with your observation, we should have protested and recommended that the pic be eliminated in the posts section...

Why? I think these women should be publicly ridiculed. And the internet is the perfect place to do it. They sure won't get it on TV.

69 posted on 12/04/2004 12:23:46 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Aargh....I'm blind!


70 posted on 12/04/2004 12:25:44 AM PST by torqemada ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!")
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To: Lijahsbubbe

LOL.... you are NOT helping me be furious about this.


71 posted on 12/04/2004 12:28:08 AM PST by Hi Heels (Proud to be a Pajamarazzi.)
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To: torqemada

OOOH, this is just plain gross! Just think, guys, in 30 years or so, this will be Catherine Zeta Jones, Brittney Spears and all those other women you think are so hot! Ahahaha!!!


72 posted on 12/04/2004 12:33:34 AM PST by derllak
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To: ChristianDefender

And yet another reason appears to reinforce the wisdom of my departure from the Episcopal church many years ago.

When the clergy won't preach holiness, when the clergy allows such non-sense to defile the house of God, when the parisioners act like heathen, and no one restrains them, how can a true believer be fed in that environment?

I do pray for God to visit the Episcopal church and shake her up, big time.


73 posted on 12/04/2004 12:38:08 AM PST by GretchenM (Because the wicked never stop, the righteous must work even harder.)
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To: ChristianDefender

I have a 98 year old female (former?) Anglican friend who recently posed topless for a community fundraising calendar. Lost her husband many years ago, and has a 60 year old boy friend. Whatever.

CE


74 posted on 12/04/2004 12:41:03 AM PST by caveat emptor
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To: ChristianDefender

Where have you been? Naked geriatric churchladies is nothing compared to: consecrating a butt pirate Bishop in New Hampshire; gay/lesbian priests with live-in lovers & adopted children; parish priests who are practicing Druids (talk about cavorting around naked!); Bishops like Spong & Swing who deny Mary's immaculate conception, Jesus' divinity, & the Scriptures as divinely inspired; the Church's pro-abortion stance...I could go on, but I can feel that vein in my forehead starting to let go....


75 posted on 12/04/2004 12:43:12 AM PST by torqemada ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!")
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Now I have to gouge my eyes out with a grapefruit spoon.


76 posted on 12/04/2004 12:49:16 AM PST by Triggerhippie
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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. "

Silly sods.

They should have got the young wimin to do it.

They'd have made five times as much.


77 posted on 12/04/2004 12:55:29 AM PST by BritishBulldog (New Labour - Putting the "National" back into "Socialist")
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To: BritishBulldog

There are no young "wimin" in the Episcopal Church. Only old dames & poofda or butch priests.


78 posted on 12/04/2004 1:03:49 AM PST by torqemada ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!")
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To: torqemada

"There are no young "wimin" in the Episcopal Church. Only old dames & poofda or butch priests."

Well, they should have used their inititive and got a few out of work actresses or models in.


79 posted on 12/04/2004 1:08:29 AM PST by BritishBulldog (New Labour - Putting the "National" back into "Socialist")
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To: ChristianDefender

Prostate cancer is a far graver killer than breqst cancer...

Should I expose my big hairy balls too? (you never know, boys and girls of that nutty congregation might actulally like it in this church)


80 posted on 12/04/2004 1:20:41 AM PST by JudgemAll
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