will ever be memorialized by the entertainment industry?
Posted on 01/18/2010 12:51:42 AM PST by Nextrush
Lust to some people is as much a drug as heroin....
as I mentioned above....denial is rampant in our culture.
take a moment to type “sexual addiction” into any search engine....
I am going to report you to admin now as you have violated my personal boundaries and integrity.
You wrote: Lust to some people is as much a drug as heroin....
No, it isn’t, it’s just that some people aren’t averse to engaging in bad behavior and some people aren’t averse to excusing it.
The holiday for MLK came with bipartisan support in the early 1980’s including Ronald Reagan.
The lone voice against it came from Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Another reason liberals hated his guts.
I’ve read that conservative Governor Meldrim Thompson of New Hampshire communicated his concerns about naming a national holiday for King.
I assume Thompson’s concerns were over the left-wing connections etc. although the conservative movement of the time was aware of this problem in at least a general way.
Reagan is said to have acknowledged Thompson’s concerns but his action was to join the overhwelming Congressional support for the King holiday.
Liberals and Conservatives often show their flawed nature with their resentment of other people or institutions that feed their desire to come out of reality to the “ideal.”
In social and political matters, the “ideal” is not reached, but drug use, alcohol use and sexual fantasy and sexual encounters get someone to a “land of impossible dreams.”
“I hsve a dream.......”
They are the maggot spawn of Affirmative Action and the War on Poverty that thrive off King's dead body.
In retrospect perhaps we need to ponder these questions.
“Is racism the problem?”
“Is socialsm the solution?”
It would have been better if Reagan supported a King holiday, but named it "Civil Rights Day," and not after King, given his many and serious character flaws and alleged communist connections. His legacy has not lived on to "judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin." With affirmative action quotas, and all of the reverse discrimination going on our lawmakers are doing anything but honoring King's true legacy.
Furthermore, we created a "Presidents Day" that downplays our greatest Presidents, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln should be honored for his civil rights accomplishments, along with King on "Civil Rights Day." And celebrate the founder of our country, George Washington, on his day. "Presidents Day" is too generic and a bad example for our teachers.
from wiki...On October 11, 1991, Swaggart was found, for the second time, in the company of a prostitute, Rosemary Garcia,[6] when he was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol in Indio, California, for driving on the wrong side of the road. According to Garcia, Swaggart stopped to proposition her on the side of the road. When the patrolman asked Garcia why she was with Swaggart, she replied, "He asked me for sex. I mean, that's why he stopped me. That's what I do. I'm a prostitute."
You are dead on.
Nobody can do anything about what Martin Luther King did or Bill Clinton did or what Tiger Woods did.
But they can do something about what they are doing right now with drugs, alcohol and lust.
It looks like Tiger has reached Step One of the twelve step program and admitted he has a problem with his lust.
People I know and or love are destroying their lives right before my eyes.
Filmmaker Lee Daniels vows biopic will not show Martin Luther King Jr. in bed with prostitute Read more:
The screenwriter wants to bring some honesty to the screen and the family wants to be in denial and whitewash the addiction to sex.
It will be interesting to see if the final film product is one or the other.
The family, lawyers and liberal political Hollywood are likely to prevail in hiding the real story from the public again.
Follow my follow up.
Leading supporters of King Day were Jack Kemp, Newt Gingrich, Dan Quayle, and, yes, Ronald Reagan, who was apparently embarrassed by his own reservations about King.
So, King wasn’t much different than Jesse ‘nuts off’ Jackson, or Al ‘how many illegitimate children’ Sharpton, eh?
Funny that no parallel need of similar size is recorded for any other kings. I think people are just trying to soft pedal Solomon’s hanky panky down (which included idolatrous things to please those ladies, something that God is more often recorded as being angry at compared to sex sin) because they find it somehow unworthy of God to bless Solomon in spite of this. Solomon, new upon the throne, asked for wisdom to govern God’s people and God was glad to grant that prayer. Solomon tragically forgot to ask for wisdom to govern himself. We can all take a lesson from these flawed but ultimately saved men, or we can preen and strut that we would never stumble so bad under similar circumstances.
Kind David had issues. So did Solomon.
One lesson I take from that is that in many cases, the average saved sinner on the street is a better person than either of them. Paul killed Christians by the bushel, but became and apostle.
We’re broken people. That simple. Those that stay faithful in marriage and work hard to bring up their kids are bigger people than those we enshrine in most cases.
You should try to find the video of President Ronald Reagan at the signing ceremony for the MLK day.
If you can’t find the video then I’ll just tell you that it isn’t something he wanted to do but was forced by overwhelming Dim opinion to do.
In the video you can tell that he just didn’t want to sign that document. He was forced into that situation.
With large opportunity comes large risk. The bible is such a realistic document because it never sugar coats its most famous and influential figures; they come on to the pages warts and all, confessing their sins if not openly committing sins. The only exception being Jesus who never committed any sins, and thus never had any sins recorded nor had to confess any, but he bore the sins of many to the cross.
To your point, this Sunday one of the lessons at church was the account of Jesus’ first miracle - the wedding party at Canaan.
Talk about real - Mom (Mary) finds out the wedding party has run out of wine. She tells Jesus, who basically replies “MOTHER!!!” (”What concern is that of ours?”).
Ignoring Jesus, she tells the servants - “Do whatever he tells you.” Jesus does the miracle, not because he wanted to, but because Mom told him to.
Talk about setting an example - even Jesus had to obey is Mom - so eat your veggies!
I’d like to believe that our Father in Heaven was laughing out loud over that one. In Heaven, I’d be dining out on that one with Jesus for at least 10,000 years, if I were Him.
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