christians post open letter to Dear Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus…. about Miley Cyrus

[billiefan2000]

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus....


Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 5/28/2010 6:00:00 AMA Christian mother and author has written an open letter to the parents of Miley Cyrus about the career path the young star is on.


Miley Cyrus is best known for the hit Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana, the show that skyrocketed Cyrus to fame and has garnered her a huge following among young girls.

Her parents, Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus, are evangelical Christians who say they have raised their daughter with biblical values and principles. But the teenage superstar's latest music video for the song "Can't Be Tamed" -- which features the young singer in a black leotard with birdlike accessories -- has raised some eyebrows.

Dannah Gresh, along with her husband Bob, founded PureFreedom.org, a ministry that promotes and encourages sexual purity until marriage. She has written an open letter on her blog to Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus.

"I've been very positive up until this point. I've tried to say everything I can that's good, because there are a lot of great things that Billy Ray and Tish have planted into their daughter," Gresh notes. "In many ways, she is a good role model. But when she makes a video as sexual as this, and then is interviewed after it and says, 'This is just the next step of growing up. My fans have grown up with me, and this is the next step,'" the ministry founder thinks something should be done.

So she encourages parents to talk with their children about the music video.

"For two or three days, I wrote about how to talk to your daughter about Miley Cyrus, and I just posted some thoughts on what [you] can do if you have a teenage daughter who's kind of caught up in the Miley train," Gesh explains. "I think...at that point the video is not so horrible that you can't watch it with your teenage daughter and then discuss it with her."

Gresh argues that Cyrus does not have to be overtly sexual in order to maintain her success and following.


Dear Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus.... (OneNewsNow.com)


p.s. pray for Miley Cyrus

[billiefan2000]

An Open Letter to Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus
Category: Tips for Moms Originally Posted May 10th, by Dannah Gresh, Creator of Secret Keeper Girl

I’ve built twelve years of ministry on many things. One of them is this: always stay positive. Instead of boycotting sexual clothing, I staged a 28,000-mom thank you for those who provide age-appropriate clothing. When Carrie Prejean was attacked for defending one-woman/one-man marriage in a bikini, I took a controversial stance and defended her…and suggested some public forgiveness for the immodesty! I like to stay positive, and that is why what I’m writing today is painful. I can’t find a way to be as positive as I’d like.

Perhaps you’ve seen Miley Cyrus’ new video, Can’t Be Tamed. (Sigh.) I wish I could have coffee with Tish Cyrus and ask her what’s really going on in her daughter’s heart. I can’t do that. I’m not connected enough. Not to her. But I am connected closely to many of her daughter’s fans (including two that have grown up in my own house). Through the years, I’ve stayed positive and placed a lot of hope in this family. I’ve prayed a lot of prayers. I offered positive thoughts about Miley when my readers asked, and encouraged forgiveness and a lot of second chances when I couldn’t be outright positive. But now I’m faced with a dilemna: Miley has just figuratively run across an eight-lane highway, and I know there are a lot of little girls who will follow her if I’m not strong about how I respond. Thanks to twelve years of researching the behavior of teen and tween girls, I know the carnage that will result if they keep feasting on Miley’s example. She has just pioneered the transport of transgressive sexuality into the view of little girls who love her and want to be like her, and I feel like not saying something would be wrong. Let me be honest: I hate this! I could say that “I love Miley” and other countless good things that I have in my heart today, but they will be muted by what I’m about to write. I write it with confidence. While I wish I had their ear to say this privately, I don’t. So, here’s my open letter to Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus.



Dear Billy Ray and Tish:
I was pulling for Miley. I vouched for her when others asked if it was OK to watch. I blogged my encouragement at the tasteful choices made along the way. I gave her room to make mistakes and encouraged forgiveness. After all, I have three kids her age and I know that sometimes despite the best parenting, they make decisions that I wish they didn’t. I know how hard it is to parent, and as far as I can tell you are—in many ways—fantastic parents and a solid family. You deserve congratulations for staying together in this culture. I can’t imagine the pressure your marriage and family bear. You’ve endured it with grace. Maybe that’s why I—and countless other moms—believe in you so much! I wanted Miley to be The One who would say no to the money-hungry industry that turns perfectly adorable, talented young girls into common sex toys. You—her parents— were my hope. That’s why I’m so utterly shocked at what appears to be the parental approval you placed on Can’t Be Tamed.

From a distance, your daughter seems confused by her role in the recent video. In defense of it, she told Ryan Seacrest that yes, “it is a sexy video…you can’t take that away from it, but it’s not the premise.” She said that she didn’t want to be like every other star and feel like, “oh, I have to stand here and do the sex thing the whole time. That’s not what this is about.” Really? Isn’t the highly sex-charged environment and scantily clad girl dancers the reason she wouldn’t let her boyfriend stay on the set? It wasn’t just her dancers who were over the top. While I posted photos of your daughter in my eblast to parents, I won’t post them here in the event that we have tween visitors. Suffice it to say, they are both sexual and transgressive in nature.

Maybe what is confusing her is your consent. You see, she may be individuating but she’s still looking to you for her direction. (Again, the fact that she looks to you is a testimony to great parenting because how many seventeen-year-olds make that clear to the public?) She said so in her interview as she reasoned that none of this could possibly be too sexual because “my mom’s sitting on set. I’m not going to do anything that I wouldn’t be proud for my family to see.”

Let me tell you why I wish you would have spoken up, Tish! At each of my Secret Keeper Girl events, I’m reminded of how powerful a role model your daughter is to hundreds of thousands of tweens. I’m reminded because they show up in their Hannah Montana shirts. They want to grow up to be just like Miley and when you signed your contract with Disney, you took on that trust. I think you know this. At least, your daughter does. She told Seacrest, “A lot of my fans have grown with me on the show, and I think it’s [referring to the video] the first step to growing up.” A girl doesn’t have to and shouldn’t grow up to be what Miley portrays in Can’t Be Tamed. I’ve been on the front lines of counseling sexually broken teenage girls for twelve years, and they get broken by imitating the behavior they see in videos like this. The media fuels behavior, especially when a face as trusted as your daughter’s is showcased. A 2007 American Psychological Association task force’s report (available at their website) states that music lyrics, Internet content, and sexual clothing are now being marketed to younger and younger girls. The smutty content—while creating no immediate effect—is clearly linked to eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression when these girls become teenagers. With Miley’s vocal encouragement, I can only imagine that the little girls following her will keep following her. Well, her fans aren’t going to get a $25,000 bustier or millions of dollars in royalties for acting like your daughter did in that video. They’ll be trashed for it! Miley has just placed hundreds of thousands of little girls on a fast track to sexualization, unless their parents pull them off by unplugging them from your daughter’s influence entirely.

Billy Ray, according to Miley you were the father who told her that “if you love to make everyone happy, you’re never going to stop working.” The irony of this is that no one was asking Miley to make “everyone” happy. We were happy when she was making little girls happy, and we didn’t need for her to expand into this conflicting dual role. Miley told Seacrest, “This isn’t anything that’s going to take me away from what people know me as. It’s just a new step. It’s not a new Miley. It’s just part of me.” What is the message to our daughters? That they can be Hannah Montanna—sweet, funny, innocent and age-appropriate—in one setting and Miley Cyrus—sexual, violent and self-pleasuring in another? That’s not a message that I want my daughters to have at the age of 8 or at the age of seventeen! Living a dual life is hypocritical at best, and disastrous at worst. I want a role model for my daughters who is single-minded—knows who she is and consistently acts accordingly—so my daughters can learn to be single-minded, strong-willed women of integrity.

The irony of Miley’s new Can’t Be Tamed video is that Miley is showcased as “a creature so rare.” Really? I think it’s rather common to play the tramp in our culture. What would have been rare would have been to dare to send both our daughters and yours a better message.

It’s not too late. It never is. You still have a platform to speak from and you can still show us that you’re made of what we believe you are made of: character. Harsh as my words may be, I still believe in you. Please prove me right. I know parenting is really tough for those of us watching, and we do it without all the added pressure that you face with the celebrity surrounding Miley. But I think that’s what makes the way you parent so important to the rest of us. We just have to remind you that though anyone can play the sex object in Hollywood, there are the few who have proven that you can walk with character in that pressing industry. Please, parent Miley to be one of them.



With Sincere Sadness,
Dannah Gresh


Secret Keeper Girl

[billiefan2000]

btw on a side note, was at a friend of mine's church on sunday

(why my friend's church is part of the wca is a side issue I wont get into, but they have better sermons than other wca churches here)


well, the sermon was called You can do whatever you want and it was about following god vs. following the world and there seems to be too many christians like Cyrus who think they can do both

and one thing the speaker (Jon) said in the sermon:


we as followers of christ arent to live like the world does. and Jon is right.


Miley I am sad to say thinks she can do that and we need to :pray for her cause it is a tragedy what has happened to her.

and Miley Cyrus behavior as of late is a cautionary tale of what happens when christians try to serve 2 masters at the same time:

God and the world




Sermon 2010-05-30 - Calvary Christian Church | Bellevue, NE | Sermons

btw is that sermon from Calvary Christian Church of Bellevue Nebraska that I mentioned.

[paul&katie]

Miley Cyrus plants smooch on female backup dancer on TV performance

Miley Cyrus plants smooch on female backup dancer on TV performance

Miley Cyrus is 17 going on 27!

A quick recap:

-- Miley's one-on-one lap dance with a 44-year-old dude.

-- Miley’s not-so-Disney music video for “I Can’t be Tamed” wearing what can only be described as lingerie.

-- Miley's “I Can’t be Tamed” lyrics, including “I go through guys like money flyin' out the hands."

PHOTOS: The Lovely and Talented Miley Cyrus.

Now add to her list lesbian-like kissing!


A video of a Cyrus performance on the U.K.'s “Britain’s got Talent” surfaced that shows the sexy unitard-clad singer simulating a girl-on-girl smooch with one of her female backup dancers.

Check out the video here - if you dare:



What's next, smoking cigarettes and drinking scotch?

Slow down Cyrus. There's plenty of time to be old - when you're old!

Kids these days...

[billiefan2000]

there is a prayer chain for the Cyrus family at

http://www.raptureforums.com/forum/p...yer-chain.html



I am a HPN http://www.hollywoodprayernetwork.com supporter and I am fed up with Miley Cyrus and Heidi Montag doing bad things and than try to hide behind christianity when they are in trouble.

IMO it makes all christians look bad when they do that.


I both of them will truly follow JESUS and stop being like the world.

[paul&katie]

News - Miley Cyrus Defends Simulating Lesbian Kiss - Celebrity News - UsMagazine.com

Miley Cyrus is standing by her raunchy June 3 Britain's Got Talent performance, in which she simulated a lesbian kiss on stage.

On her official website, the singer, 17, writes:

"To all my fans, Thank you for all the support you all show me. Sometimes you’re the only thing keepin’ me goin’ strong! There are so many people out there that are so negative and always causing new issues. I feel like the entertainment industry has become nothing but a disgusting tabloid.

“I performed ‘Can’t Be Tamed’ this week on one of my favorite shows here in the UK Britian’s Got Talent. Which is totally true, there were some amazinnnggg acts (but of course no one could focus on that.) I had such a blast and was so honored to be on that stage. That being said during my performance I supposedly ‘KISSED A GIRL’ and this is the newest thing to cause controversy.

“I promise you I did not kiss her and it is ridiculous that two entertainers cant even rock out with each other without the media making it some type of story. I really hope my fans are not disappointed in me because the truth is I did nothing wrong. I got up there and did my job which is to perform to the best of my ability. I just want to put an end to this right now and just say one thing to everyone out there making this performance such a big deal.

“GET OVER IT! NOTHING HAPPENED. THERE ARE WAYYYYYYY MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WORLD. Let’s start focusing a little less on making up ignorant rumors and focus a little more on world peace! We gotta a lot of work to do if we wan this earth to be here much longer. Let’s make a change! It wouldn’t hurt the world to show a little more love. X M”

[billiefan2000]

Miley Cyrus is a Warning to Christian Parents
Posted by Ingrid Schlueter in Culture War, Popular Culture on June 7th, 2010 | one response
Commentary by Ingrid Schlueter

UK and American news sites have been reporting on the latest lurid conduct by “Hannah Montana”, aka Miley Cyrus, a role model to millions of little girls around the world. Miley is reportedly tired of her “good girl image” and is now working feverishly to undo her reputation. The photos of her performance this weekend at a club for homosexuals in London are so raunchy that I cannot link to them on this site.

One commenter on the article remarked that she was shocked that Miley was behaving this way in that she was supposedly a “Bible-Christian.” Welcome to the freakish world of modern evangelicalism where faking lesbian kisses while dancing scantily clad onstage at a club for sodomites is the behavior of young “Christian” girls.


I was ridiculed mercilessly by bloggers, Mr. Shelton and Mr. Frueh, for calling Miley Cyrus a very “sad, painted girl of Sodom” several years ago.


Unlike many evangelical parents who believed Miley’s claims that she was “all about Jesus”, (see her claims here @ 6:15) it was plain to me that even her earliest Hannah Montana shows,

Miley Cyrus: 'I'm All About Jesus' - Celebrity Gossip, News & Photos, Movie Reviews, Competitions - Entertainmentwise

she was a young girl on the road to the tragic place where she is now. It was and is all about f-l-e-s-h.

The point I made was that she was doing it in the name of our Savior.

Miley was failed most by her father. A one-hit wonder from country music, Billy Ray Cyrus did not protect his daughter and raise her in the fear and love of the Lord. He threw her bodily into the tank of piranhas at Disney for the sake of wealth and fame that he could never achieve for himself.



The results are seen in the news story available online this weekend entitled “Miley Cyrus Ends Her London Visit With a Bang: Singer Gives the Crowd at G-A-Y Her Raunchiest Performance Yet.”



And that’s the world writing the headers. So, to bloggers like Mr. Shelton and Mr. Frueh, I stand by my assessment that Miley Cyrus is a sad, painted girl of Sodom.


She is a cautionary tale of what happens when the fake Jesus of evangelicalism is presented to young people instead of the Lord Jesus Christ who sits at the right hand of God the Father and who will return again to judge the living and the dead.

We are lying to our children when we portray only half the truth. God is forgiving and merciful, but He is also righteous and holy, and He must judge sin. Only in the true Christ of the Bible can be find forgiveness of sins when we repent and believe the Gospel. Jesus Christ warned again and again in Scripture of a literal hell where souls who are not forgiven will spend eternity in torment. If we love our children, we will not hand them over to American pop culture with a little fake “Jesus” sprinkled on top. We will warn our children of the wrath to come and tell them to find their only refuge in the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

-James 4:4



Miley Cyrus is a Warning to Christian Parents- The Crosstalk Blog

[billiefan2000]

Warning to parents: Miley Cyrus is a Warrior to Christian Parents


Warning to parents: Miley Cyrus is a Warning to Christian Parents
June 8, 2010 by davidjosephhorn



A current commentary by Ingrid Schlueter at the Crosstalk Blog begins:

UK and American news sites have been reporting on the latest lurid conduct by “Hannah Montana”, aka Miley Cyrus, a role model to millions of little girls around the world. Miley is reportedly tired of her “good girl image” and is now working feverishly to undo her reputation. The photos of her performance this weekend at a club for homosexuals in London are so raunchy that I cannot link to them on this site.

One commenter on the article remarked that she was shocked that Miley was behaving this way in that she was supposedly a “Bible-Christian.” Welcome to the freakish world of modern evangelicalism where faking lesbian kisses while dancing scantily clad onstage at a club for sodomites is the behavior of young “Christian” girls…(source)


This is a prime reason that I do not allow my children to follow pop culture icons and become influenced by popular children’s television. Some have called me old fashioned, extremist, etc. but as a parent it’s important that we are the influence and not a pop star or a television sitcom.


The following link contains some images that many parents will find offensive and that are definitely not appropriate for children. I’m adding this link so that you can see the end result of the culture Disney is pimping out to our children via these superstar idols.


Warning to parents: Miley Cyrus is a Warrior to Christian Parents





P.S. pray for Miley at http://www.raptureforums.com/forum/p...yer-chain.html