Shock Sessions: FLYLEAF
December 7th, 2009There’s a live performance video and interview posted on Shockhound.com. Here’s the link.
The right to abuse others?
December 4th, 2009For decades, the case for pornography has been focused on the viewer. The laws have focused on what people should be allowed to view.
Now that is changing. The case against pornography is being focused on the actors/actresses. The glamorous facade is coming down and it is being seen for what it really is. Pornography is abusive to the performers.
It is inherently destructive to body, mind, and soul. Those who have been there can testify to that fact.
For the past few years, Shelley Lubben (a former porn actress) has been researching the Porn Industry and has compiled her findings into an eye-opening report.
Could it be that we have been so selfish all these years?
Could it be that we were only thinking of ourselves and not thinking about the human beings that were being degraded on camera for temporary pleasure and profits?
Could it be that we are guilty of not caring and not seeing these people as valuable and of worth?
Are they not people?
Are they not sons, daughters, fathers, mothers?
Are they not worth protecting and fighting for?
I believe this is why the pornography issue is so uncomfortable for us. It’s not that we don’t want to deal with pornography, but rather we’re hesitant for what that will reveal about ourselves. It speaks to the condition of our hearts and it’s not a pretty picture.
God help us. God change us - change our hearts.
Just as 150 years ago our country was not able to see slaves as people, modern america is not currently able to see sex industry workers as people. They are seen as mere throwaway objects to be used for pleasure and profit. Pray that God will change us - that human beings will be seen as precious eternal souls created in the image of God.
Chynna & Vaughan
November 30th, 2009You may remember Chynna Phillips from the hit group ‘Wilson Phillips’ of the early 90s. Now she is back as a duo with her friend Vaughan Penn. Check out this video of them talking about how this project came to be…
Though she had become a believer at an early age, Chynna admits she drifted away. “I was looking for my relationship with God. I had kind of lost my way,” she says before recommitting her life five years ago. “I said, ‘okay whoever you are and wherever you are, I’m ready to be with you. I’m ready to know the truth about who you are.’ So literally three days later, my brother-in-law Stephen Baldwin and his wife Keenya were sitting at our kitchen table and just started praying over me. This time the conversion was so powerful. I felt like God wasn’t going to let anything get in the way. I knew I wasn’t going to let anything get in the way and it’s been that way ever since.”
Read more about the group here:
Meet Amber
November 21st, 2009
She was a porn star. The porn industry changed her name and her identity, but it didn’t change her humanity. She couldn’t take the abuse. The abuse is common - it happens everyday. For example, one industry website reviewed one of the movies Amber was in and a porn fan had this to say about one of her co-stars shown on the DVD:
Behind the Scenes show (her) breaking down and crying during the (scene). I wonder if she hates herself.
I wonder if porn has calloused us to the abuse? Yes - so much so that the porn producers and fans think it is entertaining!
Amber left porn and is now sharing her story to tell others about what goes on in the industry…
Hi, my name is Amber AKA Jessie Jewels. I was involved in the porn industry for a short period of time. Let me tell you something, it’s not anything great, that’s for sure. I hurt people who loved me when I did that raunchy stuff. I was fooled by dollar signs and false illusion. I was gullible enough to believe that it wouldn’t hurt me. Now, I pay the consequences of what I have done.
Before I ever did this stuff I was an average girl. I was definitely a little different in some ways but for the most part I was pretty average. Well, I’ve made some pretty poor choices in my life. I take full responsibility for each one. I’ve seen a side of the world that nobody would want to see. It’s evil, dark and very manipulative.
You can read the rest of her testimony here:
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Humans are worth more than statistics
November 21st, 2009Watch this shocking and disturbing video about how the Kinsey Institute knowingly and repeatedly chose to turn a blind eye to ongoing illegal activities in return for the ’statistical data’ they would gather from them. (The ‘illegal activities’ were in actuality countless molestations of boys and girls by pedophiles!) They formed relationships with multiple pedophiles and educated them in how to take notes of their activities (read: crimes) and submit their data to their institute. How’s that for legitimizing child molestation? I wonder if the pedophiles felt as if they were molesting children in the name of science? Maybe that’s in reality what they were doing! The Kinsey Institute talks about this today as unemotionally as if they were talking about experiments with fruit flies in a lab.
Remember a few weeks ago when there was a horrific story of teen boys gang raping a girl outside of a high school? The thing that seemed to make people the most upset was that there were kids who knew what was going on and they chose to do nothing. Yet that’s exactly what’s been happening at the Kinsey Institute for scores of years! I didn’t know that someone could get away with illegal activity if they claimed they were ‘doing scientific research.’
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The Manhattan Declaration
November 20th, 2009
Chuck Colson has a very important announcement today:
Today on BreakPoint, I will tell you how you can take a stand for the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious freedom.
Today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., I and a dozen evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox leaders face the microphones to announce the release of an historic document—one of the most important documents produced by the American church, at least in my lifetime.
It is called the Manhattan Declaration, and signed by over 140 leaders representing every branch of American Christianity.
Read the rest of the commentary here:
