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To: testforecho
,,, when talent is absent, there's always your clothes. That reminds me, my poodle is due for a clip.
5 posted on 12/12/2001 3:36:18 PM PST by shaggy eel
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To: shaggy eel
We need to get over it... brittany is very talented, so are madonna and cher. We may not approve of their lack of clothing... or the way they wiggle their thoraxic structures in performing "oops I did it again," but they never claimed to be "church ladies"... Screaming "untalented slut" as so many will on this thread makes no difference... it is also a lie. Spears was HOT vocally LONG before anybody got a gander at her cleavage... so was cher, and so was madonna.

Trashing a person's ability because we don't think they are good "christian girls" is much like the taliban who hindered women from nursing, doctoring and professional careers in Afghanistan, because they were acting immoral in public by THEIR RELIGIOUS definition of morality. There are good reasons why there is no allowance for a prescribed moral/religious code in our very first amendment... to end the tendency of mankind to form their own talibanist cultures withing public life and governance.

We can call them "trashy sluts" all we want, they are good at their music... good looking in and out of their clothes and successful because of those facts... Its not just a skimpy see-through halter top that makes them rich... It is because they are rich and successful that they can act, dress and think as they please... decadent as that may be to some of us.

Some folks hate decadence in others, because they secretly resent the success and pleasureable lifestyles that it engenders. If a person was a nun, perhaps its okay to be that way. If one is not, but still thinks that way, they should consider leaving husband, wife or children and joining an "strict" ascetic order along with the rest of the folks who think that way.

I have NOTHING against a person excercising their own moral convictions in their own lives... but I do have something against "slandering" and "slutizing" folks who are talented, good-looking and very sexually attractive, using morality as a pretense for their hatred of others.

We have to get rid of the "taleban" attitudes here in the USA, before we can succeed at ridding the world of it abroad. (Even if they are covered in the morality of a "christian" burqua)The talebanists of the world all agree, "britney is a whore" but I don't think so... she is an adult, not a child... and certainly NOT a role model for young girls, UNLESS mom and dad approve of her demeanor and career behaviors.. which I do.

We need a whole lot more of "mind your own business" in america than we currently have... a fitting result of 80 years of activist and interventionist government... has turned us all into a bunch of busybodies. That goes FAR beyond the "common defense" postulates of the founding fathers laid out in the Constitution.

We are the weaker and more vulnerable for it as a Nation.

People who have "faith" and "convictions" need to keep them to themselves instead of projecting their "I am the judge of your morality" attitudes upon others... Good fences make good neighbors. rom 14:22

this reply is NOT for you specifically... just a general thought that emerges on every similar thread... FWIW

34 posted on 12/12/2001 4:21:20 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2
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To: shaggy eel
as far as i'm concerned, Britney's nakedness is a talent in itself.
91 posted on 12/13/2001 1:07:49 PM PST by p-andrews
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