"NYC Pastor Objects to Naked Display"

[GreenPartyVoter]

NEW YORK (AP) - A bidet company's advertising plans in Times Square are too cheeky for the pastor of a nearby church.

Rev. Neil Rhodes, pastor of the interdenominational Times Square Church, is asking a state court to block a billboard company from posting huge ads that feature naked buttocks with smiley faces on them. The display is to go up on two sides of the Broadway building that houses Rhodes' church, its Bible school and day-care center.

"You walk into a church building, you have naked bodies before your eyes, how are you going to close your eyes and seek God?" Rhodes told the New York Post in an article published Sunday.

The ads promote the Washlet, a bidet-toilet seat that uses warm water and air. They were to go up for 30 days beginning July 1, but the church asked the state Supreme Court to block the displays, saying they would interfere with the church's religious mission.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070708/D8Q8KGTO0.html


All I have to say is LOL and Jesus had a bum too.

[Gormy Cuss]

1. ~

"Jesus had a bum too"
:spray:

The quote from the pastor is a side-splitter too. Hey Rev! Close your eyes with the lids God gave you.

[atommom]

2. But pastor, God must like butts, he made so many of them.

:spray:

[Phredicles]

6. If God made us in his image, then doesn't he have a butt too?

[atommom]

7. Yes, and here it is.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. LOL

[lynnertic]

3. I myself am not used to the idea of a bidet.

I know Cheryl Crow thinks they've less of a carbon footprint than a wad of tissue but I'm waiting for the second opinion.

[LeftHander]

4. Does the porno shop next door interfere with his Church?

TImes Square...sheesh...What an ass...(hehehe)

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. heheh indeed :^D

[karlrschneider]

9. If people were meant to be naked, they'd be born that way.

:P

[Marrah_G]

10. Why would god hate naked butts?

I mean isn't the story that God made Adam and Eve "perfect" and naked?

[Ezlivin]

11. Whatever happened to "Turn the other cheek"?

It does seem apropos in this instance.

[scarletwoman]

12. "...how are you going to close your eyes and seek God?" What's wrong with seeing God in a bum?

Isn't God in all of creation?

I am reminded of a particulariy hilarious thread at The Poorman from back in April 2006 wherein among the various dieties invoked in the course of begging for some particular outcomes to the Duke Cunningham scandal is "Shakira's Ass". Many were the commenters in that thread eager to convert to the First Church of Shakira's Ass.

My fave:

First Church of Shakira’s Ass
As entertaining as the rest of this post is, I can’t get past that. It must be holy, because I find myself uttering “Oh God” every time I think of it.

See? Verily, the sight of a well-formed bum is nothing less than a direct path to the Divine!

sw

[Madspirit]

13. k&r for fitting "bidet" and "God" into a GD discussion... : > ...n/t