{"id":338,"date":"2015-02-09T21:49:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T21:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-02-09T22:10:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T22:10:21","slug":"an-iphc-perspective-on-50-shades-of-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/2015\/02\/09\/an-iphc-perspective-on-50-shades-of-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"An IPHC Perspective on 50 Shades of Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dr. Doug Beacham, Presiding Bishop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The movie <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> will be released this week in theaters across America. The story is presented as a romance, but its theme is that bondage, dominance and sadomasochism are normal and pleasurable. The Religious Alliance Against Pornography (RAAP), of which the IPHC is a long standing member, has released this statement: \u201cThe contrast between the message of <em>Fifty Shades of Grey <\/em>and God\u2019s design for self-giving and self-sacrificing love, marriage and sexual intimacy could not be greater. The books and the movie undermine everything that we believe as members of the faith community.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/0c9gw3k65c5816f\/RAAP%20Fifty%20Shades%20of%20Grey%20Statement%20with%20signatures.pdf?dl=0\"><em>Click here for the entire RAAP statement<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>RAAP suggests that Christians inform leaders and pastors of the true message of this film. It is important to not simply condemn the message of <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>, but to also celebrate our message that love and sexual intimacy is a great blessing within the bond of marriage. Please inform others of the destructive message of this movie as you highlight the beauty of God\u2019s design for loving relationships in marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Grady, Executive Editor of IPHC Encourage Magazine, wrote an excellent <a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.charismamag.com\/blogs\/fire-in-my-bones\/22398-let-s-call-fifty-shades-of-grey-what-it-is-perverted\">blog article<\/a> regarding <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>. He calls this movie \u201cmainstream bondage pornography.\u201d He says, \u201cTrue love is not about pain, domination or control\u2014but Hollywood is happy to serve big helpings of this slop if people are willing to pay for it. Please protect women. Please defend decency. Please don&#8217;t support this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,36,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-50-shades-of-grey","8":"tag-lee-grady","9":"tag-raap","10":"entry"},"title_es":"","content_es":"","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Bx-5s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}