"Christian Leaders Sound Alarm Over Baldwin Threat to Daughter", invoke Virginia Tech

Is there no event these people will not co-opt to make their "Christian" political points?

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Contact: Dane Rose, 202-546-8329, ext. 106, DaneRose@FaithAndAction.org; Rev. Rob Schenck, 703-447-7686 cell; both with the National Clergy Council; Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Washington DC based Christian Defense, 540-538-4741 cell

WASHINGTON, April 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- Two Christian leaders in Washington, DC, have expressed deep and urgent concern over a threatening phone call made by Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin to his pre-teen daughter, Ireland.

The Reverend Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition and the Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), president of the National Clergy Council in Washington, DC, released this joint statement today:

"Alec Baldwin should be held accountable by the public and the entertainment industry and mandated to undergo counseling by the courts. This is an inexcusable, frightening threat on a young child.

"Today as we remember the Virginia Tech students, we must be mindful that every violent threat against an innocent person demands a strong, clear response. We should never tolerate Mr. Baldwin calling a young woman a 'thoughtless little pig' and saying to her he's going to 'straighten your a** out' anymore than we should tolerate talk show hosts calling young female athletes 'nappy headed hos.' We expect NBC to immediately suspend Mr. Baldwin from the Thirty Rock show until he apologizes and successfully completes treatment."

The Reverends Mahoney and Schenck are available for further comment at 202-546-8329, extension 106, or after business hours and on the weekend 703-447-7686 or 540-538-4741.

http://www.earnedmedia.org/ncc0420.htm

:sarcasm:

they still condemn Alec Baldwin for acting like a jerk?

How do they keep theirs together?

It's just another thing that makes them so nasty and hateful.

the Remnant Fellowship in Franklin, TN.
http://www.rickross.net/reference/weighdown/weighdown11.html

...though I think this whole thing is going to be way overplayed, it will dissapear the minute something remotely interesting comes along.

These people don't give a shit. I think Alec needs some parenting classes but these people beat their children. What hypocritical asshats.
Lee

This would not even be an issue. While I do not think it was cool of him to call his daughter a 'pig', those of us with teenaged daughters very well understand the frustration in his voice.

Good job George!

Lose your temper and act like a jerk to your child? Inexcusable!

Fundie logic.

What Baldwin did was terrible, I'd even go so far as to say it was a form of emotional abuse. But this statement is ridiculous. Anyone who knows anything about the Baldwin/Basinger relationship knows that it has always been an emotional roller coaster and that both of those parents have probably done enormous damage to their child. I just hope she can find the strength within her to hang tough until she's old enough to leave them and not get into trouble, but I won't be holding my breath. Such inner strength is very rare.

He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24) and "Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell." (Proverbs 23:13-14)

Of course, they are being consistent in poking their noses into somebody else's family and business.

Kim shouldn't have leaked it to the press. He still ranted and raved at an 11 year old. Not a promiscuous 17 year old, but an 11 year old stuck in the middle of a very unpleasant custody battle.

He doesn't need parenting classes, he needs some therapy that focuses on anger management.

and supposed to sealed as part of the upcoming custody hearing.

So it looks like the "blast faxes" have gone out on this already.

spare the rod, spoil the child?

Look, if someone like Baldwin puts himself in the public eye, especially politically, then he has chosen to speak for a lot of us and he should be more careful in his personal life. I know I'm going to get flamed for this but, leaving a voice message like that with a ex who apparently hates him was not very smart. Of course the right wingnuts were going to pick up on this. I know it's not fair, but he chose to be a public person representing a particular political point of view and he needs to be more careful. Than's all. Otherwise, it is a tempest in a teapot.

I can't believe that.

Those poor kids, exposed to that meth-addicted sodomite. :sarcasm:

and maybe this guy's words will mean something.