Dallas just keeps getting scarier ... (Fundie Xtians at it again)

[elfwitch]

Billboard in Dallas paid for by Fundie Christians encouraging men to give up porn as a gift for their wives for valentines day.

When will this Puritanical nonsense end?



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/lf/021204valentinesday&tmpl=sl&e=1

[Soloflecks]

1. I'm still reeling over

the Eckerd's pharmacists who refused to fill that rape victim's morning after pill prescription. And have you heard about that preacher who sits across the street from a sex shop taking down license plate numbers? He looks them up on the public info site then mails them a letter admonishing them to give up the porn. GAWD!

[ComerPerro]

9. Oh my God, is that true?

About the preacher?

I would send him a letter back telling him that he should be helping people and not sitting outside of a sex shop.

[wuushew]

12. If the guy is stupid enough to include his return address

then I can have him inundated with porn in under 5 minutes.

[ComerPerro]

16. I am sure he includes the return address

He is proud of what he is doing and wants to save your soul.

So of course he wants you to know where to send the money

[damnyankee2601]

21. Well had it over... nt

[Sandstorm]

2. I haven't seen that billboard anywhere

I wonder where that billboard is. I just hate when Dallas gets this kind of media coverage.

[elfwitch]

3. I figure it is par for the course...

Dallas is a hotbed of raving Fundie Christians.
The more bad press it gets the better I say.
It is also the home of Cheney (Highland Park).
This doesn't surprise me it just sickens me.
I can't wait to move somewhere else.

[Sandstorm]

7. Sorry you hate it so

But it is my home.

[elfwitch]

10. San Antonio is my home...

Crap like this doesn't happen nearly as often there.
Though, I don't really want to move back there either.
I'm thinking San Francisco or Canada.

[damnyankee2601]

24. Houston is my home...

...and I hate it anyway.

Actually, it's not really my "home," it's just where I live (for now.)

[DenverDem]

19. North Dallas Tollway

just before the toll booths northbound.

[elfwitch]

20. have you seen it?

I never have to use the tollway.
And I certainly refuse to use the President George Bush tollway.

[DenverDem]

28. I've seen the billboard

not this message.

I'm in Denver now but lived in Dallas area until November. Go back for hollidays.

[trogdor]

29. Why not?

I have to use the Thomas E. Dewey Thruway. Don't know too much about Dewey, except that he was Governor of New York, and that Truman kicked his ass in 1948.

Anybody know who this guy was?

[AZCat]

4. They're right!

Porn is expensive- think of all the money you could save! :)

[EV1Ltimm]

5. You can give porn for valentines day?!

All this time, I've been giving her diamond rings and stuffed animals... I'm so lame!

[ComerPerro]

6. Hahahahahaha

"But, you didn't get me anything for Valentines day!"

"Sure I did. I stopped looking at porn"

"Go to hell."

"But... Its Valentines Day"

"Go back to your porn, you bastard"

[damnyankee2601]

25. LOL nt

[Jacobin]

8. My favorite is still busting a schoolteacher for selling dildos

in tupperware parties in her home.


South of Dallas somewhere

[derby378]

14. That was only because...

...she didn't refer to the dildos as "cake toppers." I'm serious. You can sell any kind of sex toy in Texas, but only if you refer to them as "adult novelties" or "cake toppers."

What a state!

[BiggJawn]

27. Shouldn't that be "Schtupper-Ware"?

Sorry for the cofffee-spewed monitors in advance....:evilgrin:

[Karenina]

34. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

DU SCHEIßE!!! Prosit! :toast:

[Nay]

38. Jeez! That's funny!!

cola-splattered monitor here.

[mhr]

11. Dallas Is A Screwy City, Seven Years Here Is Too Long!

eom

[elfwitch]

13. I'm starting in to year three soon...

Can't wait to bail.
Hopefully only got a year or two left here.
Dallas blows!

[wuushew]

15. This is sexist

It implies that women do not engage in viewing pornography

[damnyankee2601]

26. Technically, most of them don't.

Prurient pictures of women aren't going to do much for the average heterosexual female. On the other hand, they read a lot of bodice-ripping pulp fiction, which is the female pshychological equivalent, and you can buy it at Kroger.

[barbaraann]

17. The founder's name is "Joe Dallas?"

Now, really, that's weird.

I looked at the website and they want men to replace looking at porn with becoming a brainwashed rightwing fundamentalist--anything to get out of working on that "honey-do" list. :-)

[DenverDem]

18. Dallas killed JFK.

The beginning of the end for freedom.

[wuushew]

22. http://www.purerestoration.com/

The Pure Restoration workshop helps men of all ages better understand and recover from pornography addiction (including Internet pornography) and infidelity. If you are ready to take control of this problem instead of continuing to let it control you, then we can help. Thousands of men over the last 3 years have been helped by Pure Restoration's co-creator Joe Dallas and his inspiring, results-oriented, 4-day recovery workshop.

[kcwayne]

23. I lived in Dallas for 13 years

I considered watching Reverend Tilton to be worse than porn. At least with porn when they show you a big mansion, they are screwing in it. With Tilton's mansions funded by fake charities you just saw Tilton screwing a bunch of dorks that gave him most of their money.

[BiggJawn]

30. And HIS gift for Valentines?

"Not tonight, Dear, I have the cramps".
Why do you think he looks at the crap in the first place?

Oh, shit, here I go on one of my self-loathing downers again...
Thanks a BUTTLOAD, Reverend Joe Dallas....Dickhead!

"Joe Dallas"...Is that like Peter Gozinta or Viktor Iagra?

He's probably wanted on fraud or child mollesting charges someplace.

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[reprehensor]

32. That's not gonna happen.

Not at my house. Fundies are f*ckin' hypocrites anyhow.

[Solomon]

33. Now this I don't really see any problem with.

We shouldn't get carried away with our criticism based on who placed the ad. I just don't see anything wrong with it. It certainly doesn't rank with the minister taking license plates, or the women being prosecuted for selling sex toys.

I don't mind christian fundies existing or placing ads as long as they don't try and force their philosphies on the rest of us. But there's nothing about this ad which makes me think "christian fundie".
Of course, I don't know what "pure restoration" is but unless I knew they were christian fundie, I certainly wouldn't know from looking at the billboard. I mean it's not like it's saying that looking at porn is a sin, or anything which will doom you to hell.

[locustfist76]

40. I'm glad someone has some sense

I don't get why this billboard bothers some of you on this board. Porn for some people is an addiction and some people need help with it. I thought liberals cared for people? Or do you just care about people who share your point of view? Heck, the name Jesus is not even on the billboad for crying out load. I think there are better issues to talk discuss and some billboard in Texas.

[Solomon]

41. Looks like its just you and me on this one Locust.

Welcome to DU.

[DemBones DemBones]

43. I'm with you guys, this is not worth

getting riled up about. If anti-porn = fundie conservative, one might extrapolate that the farther left you are, the more you support porn. I don't think either generalization is true.

[bluestateguy]

35. This is why I am trying to find a job outside of Texas

I don't fit in here, I have no ancestral loyalty to this state and my one Democratic vote here is totally worthless.

[GinaMaria]

36. I prefer jewelry

:evilgrin:

[bobbieinok]

37. San Antonio - satanic cult city (says John Hagee, minister there)

Weren't Paul and Jan Crouch (TBN) in Dallas?

James Robison in TX?

Kenneth Copeland in TX?

Benny Hinn in FL?

[Malva Zebrina]

39. Christians like these will do more to send Christianity to the never never

land than any atheist.

[Mushroom]

42. LOL

It's only for ONE day! And with a real woman! Hand the little woman a heart instead of a hard on.

hahahahaha