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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:01 am Post subject: Actor Stephen Baldwin On Crusade Against Porn |
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Actor Stephen Baldwin might be more at home on a movie set, but these days � and nights � the veteran of more than 60 films can be found on Route 59 in Nyack, New York, trying to shut down a business that shows movies � pornographic movies.
Baldwin, the youngest of the acting clan that includes older brothers Alec, Billy and Daniel, has planted himself on the sidewalk outside a new adult entertainment business located about one mile from his home and is photographing workers and their vehicles as they prepare the store for opening.
The actor says he plans to stand outside the store every day and photograph license plates of its patrons until the business closes. He will, he threatens, identify the store's customers and pay for a one-page newspaper ad each month to publish their names.
"I won't stop until it shuts down," Baldwin told the Westchester Journal News. "I don't want it this close to my house. I'm personally not OK with pornography. I definitely think that it adds to the moral decay or our culture."
Baldwin and several of his Nyack neighbors unsuccessfully protested the business's application to open last summer before the city planning board, but were told by officials their only legal authority was regulation, not prohibition.
The store, owned by the Queens-based company, Algama, will feature movies, books, magazines and video booths � and, says Baldwin, attract crime, lower property values and reduce the quality of life of the community where he's lived for 10 years.
Baldwin, who became a Christian in the wake of 9-11 and through the witness of his wife, Kennya, has become outspoken about his new faith, co-producing a Christian DVD called, "Livin' It," aimed at the extreme-sports culture of skateboarding and BMX stunt biking.
"In my position, I just don't think I'm supposed to keep my faith to myself," Baldwin told a group of Texas Southern Baptists in 2004. "I'm just doing what the Lord's telling me to do. You know, if the Lord's not telling anybody else [in Hollywood] to [talk publicly about their faith], well, then God bless 'em. But I don't think that's the case. I think there are a lot of people who don't put their faith before everything else, you know. And that's a big problem. I'm just doing what the Lord's calling me to do. Period."
For the present, it appears, the Lord is calling Baldwin to trade in his skateboard for a camera and keep vigil at the new pornography outlet in his neighborhood. Police report Baldwin called them Friday night at 9:30 p.m., saying the shop's employees were harassing him for taking photographs. They advised everyone the actor was free to protest as long as he stayed off private property.
"He's just out there expressing his opinion," Sgt. Gerard O'Connor said. "He's more than free to do that."
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If he was in my neighborhood I would gladly make my way down the the adult video establishment. I would also gladly allow him to take my photograph while I proudly display my purchse and give him a big thumbs up!
Maybe we could have a conversation about how hot Monica Belluci was as the Mary Magadalane in the 'Passion'. Can't wait for the porn version to come out.  |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Um kay.......
I tend to avoid having my picture put in the paper particularly in matters involving buying smut. However, I do see where you are going with this and I somewhat agree with your underlying premise that Baldwin is a dweeb. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| I'm just doing what the Lord's telling me to do |
This is the problem right here. Once you've got "the lord" telling you to do stuff you get all righteous and so on. The people who murdered abortion doctors were also "doing what the lord told them to do". |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: |
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The real question is why anyone would go to a video shop for porn. Haven't those Troglodytes heard of the Internet?
PS - Stephen Baldwin was in Bio-Dome.
Sparkles*_* |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Stephen Baldwin is fat. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| Well obviously when you're a Baldwin you don't need porn. Try walking a mile in another man's shoes, Baldwin. What is he trying to do, upstage his brother in the sequel to "Team America: World Police"? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:59 am Post subject: Re: Actor Stephen Baldwin On Crusade Against Porn |
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"I definitely think that it adds to the moral decay of our culture."
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Didn't he make a movie with Pauly Shore?
People in glass houses, yadda yadda yadda...
[edit: and now I read the rest of the thread and see that Sparkles has already been there. A pox on your house, Tiberious!] |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:28 am Post subject: |
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wasnt he in that 3some movie? man im thinking he married a christian or something and she has him by the balls making him do stuff!
or he is planning on making a passion of the christ 2 and is looking for the christian vote! |
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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| He is "born again". So all past trangressions don't count anymore. Just ask Dubya. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| Alias wrote: |
| He is "born again". So all past trangressions don't count anymore. Just ask Dubya. |
Playing the devil's advocate, I'm sure there are a lot worse things than co-starring with Pauly Shore in Bio-Dome. Being likened to to this century's greatest murderer, for one. 
Sparkles*_* |
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fiveeagles
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:39 am Post subject: |
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The best movie by Baldwin ever!!!!
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| He is "born again". So all past trangressions don't count anymore. Just ask Dubya. |
Did you hear his speech on MLK's day? It was pretty powerful stuff. Ever time I hear him, he seems genuine and the real deal.
Funny how almost every topic steers to this type of rant? |
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