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I was just remembering how I use too hold on to stuff,when I left TWI for the 3rd on final time,I placed everything neatly in the house in my room that I shared with three other military wows,I left it all except my bible and my wow pin. I hung on too both for a long long time..after I guess 15 years I let go of my wow pin and threw it in Deep Creek Lake in Maryland. I burned my bible and got a new one(there was just too much highlighted error in there)and that was refreshing even though I cried when I burned my bible. Seems we gave(people in The Way)so much of our life to this so called "ministry" it was hard to let go,and here we are still talking about it too(it does seem to help) who else would understand this but us.

Thanks waysider,I was out of the room and my daughter seems real intrested in this subject.

The 10 Worst Movies About Jesus 05/27/2008 When your choices to play Jesus are limited to the talent pool of Lawton, Oklahoma, you end up with Millard Coody, seen here in his star turn in Prince of Peace.(Not Counting The Passion of the Christ Because That Would Be Too Easy) By Danny Gallagher You would think the opportunity to play Jesus Christ in a major motion picture would be a distinction even more amazing than playing Hamlet, since Jesus is someone that no human could ever thoroughly understand unless he had the mind of God. Well, think again. Chances are the reason the director picked you is because you're the guy who couldn't afford haircuts and you owned a dusty pair of Man Sandals. These are the movies that make the story of the Son of Man look like the story for Son of Flubber. THE ROBE Keeping Jesus off camera for most of "The Robe" is the only thing 20th Century-Fox ever did to help Christianity.This film may have been nominated for an Oscar, but so was Norbit. Richard Burton, Shakespeare’s worst nightmare, plays Marcellus, a Roman soldier who crucifies Jesus and then wins his robe in a drunken game of dice. Since he can't put the thing up for sale on eBay, he decides to hang on to it. But instead of being the historical keepsake, bathroom rug or future dorm curtain he hoped it would be, the robe tortures him to no end. The very touch of it burns his skin and after he gets rid of it, disturbing dreams of Jesus' death and having to marry Elizabeth Taylor haunt him. The film attempts to portray the power of Jesus Christ by showing how even his outfit can kick your foot. Widescreen Cinemascope Technicolor made the robe of Jesus look like a fuzzy-wuzzy blankie.This was the first movie filmed in wide-screen Cinemascope, the format that was supposed to save Hollywood from the threat of television, but all it did was establish the principle that a dirty tube sock magnified a thousand times on a Technicolor screen will still look like a dirty tube sock. Everyone turns the overacting up to 11, which for Burton goes to the level of a drunken Renaissance Faire actor padding his resume. For the role of Jesus himself, director Henry Koster decided to save money and just use his second unit director, which means the poor guy had to perform just about all of his normal duties in full costume. The studio wouldn't even let him eat in the cafeteria because they felt it was inappropriate for Jesus to be seen eating there in public. Come on, he may be the Son of Man, but that doesn't mean he never needed a Hungry Man meal. Go-go dancers always help with the "hard sayings."JESUS CHRIST VAMPIRE HUNTER There are a ton of B-movie horror flicks centered around Jesus Christ as a bad-foot spiritual hunter sent back to Earth to rid the world of demons and prevent the Second Coming, but this is definitely the best and that's not really a complement. This cult favorite is so crammed to the brim with mixed genres that its mere stench lifts the lid off the jar and overflows with oozing mediocrity. It's a kung-fu movie. It's a splatterfilm. It's a Mexican wrestling film. It's a musical! It's a Jesus film with multiple personality disorder. And all of them are batdang insane. JESUS, THE MINI-SERIES CBS decided to go high concept with the whole Christ thing.It's May 1999 and it's sweeps week. All the other networks have big boffo blockbusters lined up to trick people into watching as much television as possible, but CBS executives find themselves standing out in the cold with nothing but old Murder, She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder reruns on your schedule, guaranteed to attract the oldest demographic since the Weather Channel went on the air. What do you do? Simple. You play on people's fears about the coming Year 2000 apocalypse and produce a made-for-TV Jesus biopic that’s bloodier and more over-the-top than all three of the Evil Dead films combined. One of the rare times that "bringing the story up to date" was taken literally.This scene of the final crucifixion features actor Jeremy Sisto being brutally nailed to the cross as he tries to convey agony by screaming the loudest of any torture victim in history. When Jesus tells his father to forgive them for they know not what they do, a grinning Livio--played by G.W. Bailey, better known as Rizzo on *M*A*S*H* and Captain Harris on Police Academy-says in his best Bond villain voice, "We know what we're doing. We're killing you." Oh snap, Jesus! You just got served. Then in the end he comes back to life in the modern day and beams down Star Trek-style into a short-haired early-thirties guy who greets a group of schoolchildren with a warm hug and walks them out of frame, making you think Jesus suffered for two days and rose from the dead on the third so he could come back to life and babysit for us. ZOMBIE JESUS! Well, yeah, that's probably what he would look like.If Night of the Living Dead director George Romero became a born-again Christian, got a ton of funding from a religious film studio and decided to resurrect (no pun intended) his famed zombie movie franchise for a Christian audience, this wouldn't be the movie he would make. This little film festival puddle jumper conjectures that the reason Jesus returns from the dead is so he can feast on the brain of the living, which we're sure isn't kosher even if you kill the human a certain way. Should we take "Zombie Jesus" off our resumes?It's hard to tell from the trailer if the film is an allegorical tale of literal Biblical translation run amok or just another zombie comedy that tries to ride on the coattails of Shaun of the Dead. If it's the second, you can rest assured there won't be any "Take this and eat it, for this is my body" jokes since the film follows Return of the Living Dead zombie rules, which require zombies to eat brains only, and not Night of the Living Dead zombie rules, which allow the undead to consume the entire body. IN SEARCH OF HISTORIC JESUS The poster had a strange resemblance to the poster for "I Spit On Your Grave," but let's not dwell on that.If faux-science shows like Unsolved Mysteries and In Search Of . . . attempted to tackle the Messiah story, of course they'd have to release their merry band of over-actors to reenact the story of Jesus in ways that made you giggle as a kid in places you weren't supposed to until the pressure from your sinus would blow your brains clean out of the back of your skull. This schlock docudrama attempted to tackle that very subject. The movie features a stuffy, glass-eyed "historian" who uses the Shroud of Turin as an excuse to research the history of Jesus Christ, complete with so much hammy acting, the film will make you want to go kosher. Since it ran in drive-ins across the country for years, it was allowed to feature the full crucifixion experience in all of its fake gory glory. So let's do those drive-in totals. We've got two nailed wrists, one stabbed chest, spear fu, Roman fu, Jew fu, Wrath of God fu and no aardvarking. We give it zero stars. THE PRINCE OF PEACE, a/k/a THE LAWTON STORY Six-year-old Ginger Prince failed to become the next Shirley Temple.Have any of you parents out there ever sat at one of your children's Sunday School Nativity pageant and thought you'd like to see your own kids acting out the birth of Jesus on the big screen? Hell no. Despite that fact of life, that's pretty much what William “One-Shot” Beaudine did with a passion play from Lawton, Oklahoma. Beaudine got his nickname because he reputedly directed more than 350 films without ever asking for a second take. For this project, he was working for the legendary showman Kroger Babb, who specialized in traveling roadshows that would pack the local theater for three days of “educational” or “inspirational” screenings, followed by a quick exit to the next town. Beaudine and Babb took a local production and interspersed it with a film about a young girl who convinces his greedy rich uncle to see the passion play so it will open his eyes to the value of serving, not taking from, his fellow man. The acting in this thing is not only bad, but the Sooner accents were so thick that the entire film had to be redubbed because the angry mob in Jerusalem never sentenced Jesus to die by announcing "Git-r-Done!" This is what's known as a William Beaudine action sequence.Babb took the film on the road and then tried to sell the audience Bibles after the screening, which wasn't very successful because the movie ran four hours. It's hard to sell Bibles to a bunch of people whose faces had melted off from boredom. The film became an even bigger failure when it tried to launch the career of Ginger Prince, the actress who plays the little girl in the film, as an attempt to step on the pituitary gland of an aging Shirley Temple. Again, films that melt faces off of their audiences won't help your career, not even in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. Enrique Irazoqui managed to retain this one expression throughout the entire film.THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Some of the world's most astute film critics and historians have lauded Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's retelling of the Gospel of Matthew with glowing words that will never be used to describe directors like Ed Wood, Uwe Boll and the guy who made the Rollerball remake. But anyone who’s ever had to sit through it in film class, struggling with the idea of a Marxist Jesus with a homosexual subtext, will realize why Pasolini boasted about his lack of research. He basically turns the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ into a kung-fu flick starring George Takei as Judas. Oh my. Pasolini's Mary is not happy about being knocked up.Pasolini–an atheist who was expelled from the Communist Party and had a movie based on the Marquis de Sade banned by the Italian government before being knifed to death by a gay hustler in 1975–films the Christ story with a shaky-cam documentary style that even gives blind people headaches. Some of the Jewish leaders have hats so ridiculous that even the Pope wouldn't wear them. You can't go wrong with Spandex.ULTRACHRIST! Look, up in the sky! It's a skydiving hippie! It's that guy from Three Dog Night in a jetpack! No, it's Ultrachrist! In this low low low low low budget film that looks like it was filmed in every high-rent/low-maintenance apartment in the Big Apple, director Kerry Douglas Dye poses the scenario that if Jesus returned to Earth he'd have to reinvent his image by taking on the persona of a superhero in divine Spandex. Well, at least he's got the body for it. That's right, Affleck, I'm looking at you, flabby. Jonathan C. Green, as Ultrachrist, evangelizes the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire.Christ runs around New York City in his street-bought sandals and clip-on utility belt that doesn't seem to be holding any utilities in his never-ending quest to fight crime. Eventually the big man upstairs decides he doesn't like his favorite son's new public persona and the Antichrist is on the rise and Christ finds himself stuck between appeasing his father or ridding the Earth of unholy evil, much in the same way the audience finds themselves struggling to either return the video to the store for a full refund or throw the thing in an incinerator to spare anyone else from watching it. The poster depicts the famous gospel passage in which Jesus heals a midget housewife.THE MIRACLE MAKER Get ready to see Jesus like you've never him before--in crappy, old-fashioned stop-motion animation that even kids don't use when they're making Star Trek fan films in their basement. If you thought that Sunday school film of the death and resurrection had more wooden and hollow actors than a Renaissance faire, wait until you see these actors who are actually made out of hollow wood. It's a stop-motion "3-D" film of the Jesus story that looks like the makers of Robot Chicken phoned in their last episode so they could clear the animation studio space for Assy McGee in time. Unfortunately it's difficult to distinguish between Jesus and his cross in this stop-motion wooden-figurine classic.It also features an all-star cast of celebrity voices including Alfred Molina, Miranda Richardson and Ralph Fiennes as the voice of Jesus, because, after all, the Son of Man spoke with a stuffy British accent though he was born and raised in abject Bethlehemic poverty. The cast of "The Da Vinci Code" attempting to get that perfect Louvre snapshot where you look like the Mona Lisa and you can put it up on your myspace page.THE DAVINCI CODE The book that everyone in your office cubicle said you have to read is now a big-budget overblown movie without any big words or scary facts about religion to give you a headache. The book and movie dares to uncover the greatest cover-up in the history of the Catholic Church, unless you don't count the church's refusal to stand against the Holocaust and the string of priest molestations and the selling of indulgences as a form of penance and the fact that eating meat on Friday between Ash Wednesday and Good Friday is no longer a damnable sin. Tom Hanks fondles the holy grail.The movie suggests that the Son of Man was also quite the Ladies' Man because of an alteration in Leonardo DaVinci's famed "Last Supper" painting. Of course, it doesn't get to that juicy little tidbit until after two-thirds of the most excruciatingly bad acting and dialogue is done. But it doesn't end there. There's this big M. Night Shyamalan ending that reveals Jesus had a family tree, and after you calculate what you’ve had to sit through to get to that one scene, you realize that Christ may have died on the cross for our sins, but now we’ve paid him back by remaining faithful all the way to the excruciatingly painful end.

Published: May 30, 2008 ALBANY — As New York lawmakers pondered a new directive from Gov. David A. Paterson that state agencies begin revising their policies to honor same-sex marriages conducted outside New York, the Legislature’s top Republican said he had yet to decide whether to challenge the governor.

Bible Prophecy and Planet X? Planet X seems to fit in with Bible prophecy, in a number of instances. The Book of Revelation is perhaps one of the best examples of this correlation and is the last book in the New Testament. It is said to represent, in symbolic language, the record of events received in the form of visions given to John by an angel, sent by Jesus. It speaks of conditions and events that could occur prior to and during Jesus' second coming. The chapters and verses are characterized by 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 bowls, which describe the order of these purposive events as they may occur. The sixth seal deals with "Cosmic Disturbances". Compare the words of the chapter addressing the sixth seal, Rev 6:12-15, with what is predicted during Planet X’s passage. Rev 6:12-15 "I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains." In analyzing this: "There was a great earthquake". 9-15 Richter scale quakes could occur during a pole shift. "The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair". The ash from the many spewing volcanoes could block out the light of the sun. "The whole moon turned blood red" The planet's comet-like tail is comprised of much red dust which may make the moon appear to be red when viewed through it. "The stars in the sky fell to earth" Asteroids, space debris, boulders, gravel, and dust are held in the suns giant magnetic field and follow along in Niburu's comet like tail. There is much ecological evidence that this has swept the earth before. The earth could also become highly charged due to increased solar flaring. Both earth’s electromagnetic charge and its gravity could pull some of this debris into it again. An alternate perspective might be, that during a possible shifting crust, the stars would look like they are rapidly moving or falling, when viewed from earth’s surface "The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up" This possibly describes ash plumes of a myriad of volcanoes may erupt globally, or again, moving or scrolling up or down while the shift is occurring. "Every mountain and island was removed from its place" During a possible pole shift, when the inner magma is shifting, the crust could also shift mountains and islands from their current positions. "The kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains" The US Government has apparently already built over 129 underground cities, along with an interconnecting tunnel systems. Contractors are continuing to build domes in highly elevated locations for more government officials. Others are building concrete fortresses to take refuge in. As ocean water could be responsible for many drowning and much destruction. Other Bible Prophesies Regarding End Times The prophecy of Revelation 16:12 has lain quietly for almost 2,000 years, virtually defying fulfillment. It declares that the mighty Euphrates River will be dried up at the time of the Battle of Armageddon. But who is kidding whom? The Euphrates is the principal water source of the entire Middle East. This is like predicting that the Mississippi River will dry up! This Euphrates prophecy just appeared to be impossible. At least it did until the shocking headline appeared on the front page of the Indianapolis Star, January 13, 1990. It read, "Flow of Euphrates to Be Stopped for 30 Days." The article explained that Turkey had built the huge Ataturk Dam. Thirty days would be required to fill up the newly constructed reservoir and the Euphrates was temporarily stopped. The river is flowing again now, however, as of 1990, the mechanism is in place that can stop the flow of the Euphrates at will. The prophecy states that, at the time of Armageddon, the flow of the Euphrates will be dried up to facilitate the invasion of Israel. It will really be very simple. Just push the button, raise the dam, and the Euphrates stops. But remember, it’s only been possible since 1990! Revelation 13:17: "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." This prophecy simply states that, during the end time, everyone will need a mark or a number in order to participate in the economy. How could such a system possibly be implemented? Until recently, it couldn’t. Only since the invention of the computer and the advent of the Internet, has the fulfillment of this ancient prophecy been remotely possible. It has now become commonplace to see articles proposing a cashless society. Who hasn’t been prevented from using a credit card because of forgetting a PIN number (personal identification number)? Experiments are already being conducted with using eye scans, face scans and fingerprints for proof of identity. Positive ID has become necessary in a world that increasingly does business "online." What about micro chipping? This has already begun. We were acclimatized to this early on through our pets. The step has been to targeted elderly, of course under the guise of providing them with a sense of security, knowing that all their medical records are obtainable by any medical service provider, with a simple scan. Micro chipping has also been suggested for children to appease parental fears of abduction. Your child can then be tracked by satellite, anywhere on the planet. But as your child grows into an adult, then what? Apparently some military personnel are already enslaved as such. The new money of Europe, the euro, has been in use for over two years. Millions of euros are traded every day and yet to until 2002, physical euros did not exist. All transactions were electronic and cashless! Euro notes and coins were introduced in January 2002. Can a cashless society work? Europe has proven that it can. Between online transactions and the use of smart cards, the current technology exists to set up a cashless society. The only blockade is public acceptance. How long will it be before society is able to get used to it? The Bible is crystal clear that the prophesied economic system will be implemented during the final three and one-half years before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Never possible before…totally possible now! Most of the prophecies of the Bible are written in symbols or are encoded. Only four or five give the literal name of a person or a place. Two of these special prophecies may have come to pass during the last fifteen years. When Saddam Hussein was forced to withdraw from Kuwait in 1991, he wreaked his vengeance by setting 700 of the world’s richest oil wells on fire. As a result, the sun was not seen in the area for the next three months. At noon, it was as dark as at midnight. In this apocalyptic vision, John saw what he described as locusts coming out of the smoke. These were not ordinary locusts. He said that the locusts had "breastplates of iron", "the faces of men", and "their stings were in their tails." John heard the sound of these "locusts." He said, "The sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle." Does this sound like a description of the modern helicopter to you? Remember that John had never seen a helicopter. He was merely attempting to record what he saw in his vision. It's anyone's guess whether this part of John's vision was about the 1991 Kuwait nightmare or if this has yet to come to pass. Geologists Speculate on Noah's Flood Some feel that the great flood of Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6 through 10) was a result of the passing of Planet X. Some biblical fundamentalists have expended great energy searching for the remains of Noah's Ark. Geological research does find reason to believe there was indeed a vast, sudden and deadly flood around 5,600 B.C. (3,600x2), close enough to the possible time of Noah to fascinate biblical literalists and liberals alike. The Ryan Pitman candidate for the Great Flood locale is what we know as the Black Sea, bordering Turkey to the north. In 1993, Ryan and Pitman joined a Russian expedition on the Black Sea and used the latest technology to examine evidence of geological patterns, soil layers and forms of aquatic life that existed in ancient times. One telltale clue: freshwater mollusks with smashed shells gave way to saltwater creatures that had intact shells, a biological transition that could be dated through carbon-14 testing of the shell remains. From such research, the scientists spin this scenario: Until about 5600 B.C., the Black Sea was an inland fresh water lake, considerably smaller than today's saltwater sea and lying far below the level of the Mediterranean Sea. Black Sea From the article: "Trailing Ancient Mariners", Washington Post, September 26, 1999 As the story is told in the Old Testament, the Great Flood lasted for 40 days and 40 nights, and submerged every living thing on Earth beneath 24 feet of water, sparing only Noah, his family and the pairs of animals he protected on his ark. Scientist never found Noah or his ark, but they believe in his flood. It happened about 7,600 (3600x2), when the Mediterranean Sea, swollen by melted glaciers, breached a natural dam separating it from the freshwater lake known today as the Black Sea. The theory of the Black Sea's Neolithic catastrophe was developed by Columbia University marine geologist William Ryan and Walter Pitman over three decades of research and published this year in their book Noah's Flood. The authors describe how the sea level worldwide began to rise as glaciers melted at the end of the last ice age 15,000 years ago. When the melt began, the Black Sea was a fresh water lake fed by rivers, among them those known today as the Danube, the Dnieper and the Don. On the lake's southern edge, a 360-foot natural dam held back the waters of what is the Mediterranean Sea. By 7,600 years ago, sea levels probably had risen to within 15 feet of the lip of the Bosporus. "An apocalyptic deluge followed, inundating the freshwater lake below the dam, submerging thousands of square miles of dry land, flipping the ecosystem from fresh water to salt practically overnight and probably killing thousands of people and billions of land and sea creatures." According to Biblical prophecy, when will Planet X arrive? Jesus in Matthew 24 versus 36 and 37 says: "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven," but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be." Jesus clearly states that only God knows the exact time of these events." Could it be more than coincidence that these versus compare the end times to the great flood? In Matthew 24:3-14, the disciples asked Jesus what would be the signs of the end of the age. Jesus outlined specific disasters that would occur before His return. These included false Christs, wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilence, earthquakes, false prophets, lawlessness, violence and a lack of love for others, all of which are happening in the world today. Unlike most Biblical prophecies that sometimes take thousands of years to occur, such as in the prophecy of the birth of Christ in the book of Genesis, the seven seals give the appearance that they will happen rapidly. This gives the impression that all seven seals will occur within a few years. The sixth seal holds the very real possibility of referring to Planet X’s passage or a similar cosmic event. If the seals are any indication of current events, then the arrival of Planet X in the very near future could certainly be fitting. Revelation 16:9 speaks of an intense and exceedingly sore glowing heat and calamities coming upon earth. This could be solar radiation caused from solar flares and/or the increased core temperature of Earth. Revelation 8:5 mentions thunder and lighting and a "vibrating commotion" This could be a reference to an atmospheric disturbance caused by a celestial object. Revelation 8: 7 indicates that a third of the trees being consumed wholly and burned up along with some green pastures of hay. Note: This is consistent with Jude Verse 8, which mentions a large mountain that glows with lighting and little coals of fire, lifting up above the plain. Is this volcanic activity due to the gravitational effects of a Planet X type object? Revelation 8:10 describes an "aster," glowing as a torch or lamp which looses force (orbit?) and alights on earth. Strong defines the word aster as a comet. Comet or Asteroid? The Bible also speaks of a thousand years of peace after the catastrophic events described in the book of Revelation. Revelation 20:1-6 says: "Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottom-less pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshipped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years". The basic viewpoint regarding what is called the Millennium, or 1,000-year reign of Christ, holds that after the victory in Revelation 19, Christ will set up an earthly kingdom and will reign with the resurrected saints in peace and righteousness for 1,000 years. The good people of the world will prevail in the end.

I can't even begin to imagine being in that position...hope you are doing well and are enjoying free will. thanks for sharing.

jen-o...i do not have the answers to any of your questions.....buti do have many gay friends and i support them and do not judge them,and ofcourse we are all sinners even the person who eats too much chocholate cake! But..I do believe God is love even if you eat too much chocolate cake!

i like to thnk God is color blind,and i like to think someday the whole world will be too

The Purple Pew, an online Christ-led organization, news source, and community for straight and gay Christians who believe that serving God through faith in Christ undoubtly involves the active pursuit of truth, equality and justice for all. Mission The Purple Pew's purpose is to stand up for the truth regarding what the Bible really says about homosexuality, marriage, justice and the Christian faith, holding firm to Holy Scripture and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Declaration Of Equality We declare that with God there is no respect of persons, partiality or variance regardless of sexual orientation. Marriage is honorable in all and for all, especially those who live by faith in Christ. Therefore, all persons who profess the name of Jesus as Lord and Savior are heirs to the throne of God by faith in Christ, His only begotten Son, who died for all, especially those who believe, without partiality or hypocrisy. Responsibility It is our responsibility and duty as Christ’s chosen servants to speak, live, and teach the truth according to God’s Word with passion and perseverance. Anything less is an injustice to humanity and a disgrace to God. Statement of Faith About the Founder VL Carey is the Founding Executive Director of The Purple Pew. She is also the author of Connecting the Biblical Dots, the foundation on which The Purple Pew is built. V.L. Carey has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. She served in the United States Army’s Signal Corps for five years, achieved the rank of Sergeant, and received an honorable discharge. Carey was born and raised Southern Baptist but is now a non-denominational Bible-based Christian (who also happens to be gay). She has two college-age daughters and currently resides in Evansville, Indiana.

Nation / World Section Gay? Just Don't Say the M Word in NJ February 19th, 2007 By PPN Staff It's now the first day for civil unions for gay couples in New Jersey. Stating today, lesbians and gay New Jersey couples will receive all the legal protections and benefits that heterosexual married couples receive upon filing an application with the state and waiting at least three days before participating in a civil union ceremony. But shhh, you can't call it marriage. The new law permitting civil unions in the "garden state" isn't all that rosy. According to Garden State Equality's website the law falls short of equality. When New Jersey enacted its civil unions law at the end of 2006, legislative leaders acknowledged the law is not equality and that they might revisit marriage equality soon. They even enacted a commission, proposed by Garden State Equality, to investigate how civil unions fall short of equality According to the Associated Press, New Jersey decided to not call the legal union of lesbians and gays 'marriage' partly because some legislators objected on religious grounds. Opponents of gay marriage say that according to the Bible, which is the foundation of Christianity, that marriage traditionally is between a man and a woman. But conservative reinterpretists fail to shed light on the truth of biblical traditional marriage. Traditional marriage in its truest sense - by Old Testament standards - is a polygamous marriage: for King David, the King that Jesus was a descendant of, had two wives before he married a third - I Samuel 30:18 and II Samuel 12:9, respectively. And the text that "traditional" reinterpretists use from the New Testament to claim that marriage is solely between a man and a woman is Matthew 19. This passage, however, is a condemnation of fornication and adultery, not a commandment of heterosexual marriage of any kind. Furthermore, some "Christian leaders" would like everyone to believe that marriage is holy. If in fact that were true -- and based on the fact that Christ said he is the way, the truth and the life and therefore there is no other way to God, meaning that "religion" is merely an institution of idolatry created to serve and exalt the traditions of men -- then any marriage that is not a Christian marriage is sinful and an abomination before God. So why then separate a group of sinners* out from all other sinners and deny them equal marriage rights? Because inequality for gays and lesbians by majority pseudo-christians and non-christians is a long-time tradition. A tradition older than Christmas and the Fourth of July. Although the by God's definition the union of two things is a marriage (Revelation 21:9-10), the union of gay couples in New Jersey won't be called by its rightful name, at least not today. * It is biblically incorrect to say that homosexuality is a sin, and therefore all gays are sinners. But lesbians and gays are unjustly labeled sinners solely on the basis of their sexual orientation.

God went to Mexico this weekend to see Jesus.

This is why women should not take men shopping against their will... After Mr. and Mrs. Taylor retired, Mrs. Taylor insisted her husband accompany her on her trips to K -Mart. Unfortunately, Mr. Taylor was like most men--he found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunately, Mrs. Taylor was like most women--she loved to browse. One day Mrs. Taylor received the following letter from her local K -Mart. Dear Mrs. Taylor, Over the past six months, your husband has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and may be forced to ban both of you from the store. Our complaints against Mr. Taylor are listed below and are documented by our video surveillance cameras. 1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in peoples' carts when they weren't looking. 2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals. 3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom. 4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, "Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away." 5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&M's on lay-a-way. 6. September 14: Moved a "CAUTION - WET FLOOR" sign to a carpeted area. 7. September 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told other shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department. 8. September 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, "Why can't you people just leave me alone?" 9. October 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose. 10. November 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were. 11. December 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme. 12. December 6: In the auto department, he practiced his "Madonna look" by using different sizes of funnels. 13. December 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled "PICK ME! PICK ME!" 14. December 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed "OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!" And last, but not least. 15. December 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, "Hey! There's no toilet paper in here!" Regards, K-Mart Management & Security ________________________________

God does not hate anyone, God is LOVE. and all you homo phobic people out their have no idea how many are in our military and how many other fields of profession that may have saved YOUR life! Don't be hating,next it'll be God bless our military and all the Gay people in it..that can't say they are. Grow up America..God bless EVERYONE

who they are( are blind lost people chasing their tail like a crazy chained up dog in the backyard of thier mind,hoping that their followers will do the same. what a freaking mess!!!!

I saw it in the OKC branch,but after that not so much. Reminds me of Dumbo(I've seen a house fly and a horse fly,a dragon fly,,,but not an elephant fly) no compassion at a corporate buisness level,robots in retail selling a class and getting blood money for the fat cat.

As a kid growing up catholic I always thought Pinnochio was part of the bible (you know being in the whale and all) that made me laugh.

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At least the wedding planners will have a new agenda outside the traditional bride and groom ,see allready creating new jobs for California!

Geez don't hav a cow!!! Lighten up dude,people are people..and God is Love.

Yes,I agree it's about time,heres some flowers for my rainbow warriors.

ditto that ! Recovery is a long process if your honest about it,but if you just sweep it under the rug it comes back to bite you in the unconcious dream state,we are all wise to have gotten out of The Way. I hate cults..all cults,I too was so pumped to take the class,sold my 12 string guitar to get money for it,then shunned family. and friends and anything that came in between "the ministry". A long wrong turn in life...thank God we found our clearing in that storm,and when I think about it alot of people try to do that on their own,all alone and that is really hard,so I am glad for grease spots support, it is almost like going to AA meetings or something.

Some people have got to have chapter and verse for EVERY LITTLE THING OR THEY FREAK OUT! how many times do you have to realize(some people) that THE WAY screwed you,I say spin it all down the commode!

that just gave me a headache reading all that!!!! what a mess

I was happy in Oklahoma City in 1978....after that NOT happy!

Happy mothers day to the good moms..to the bad ones like mommy dearest No more wire hangers!!!!!