Thursday, November 15, 2007

Choices

I had dinner with a friend tonight. He's a liberal Jew. I'm a conservative Christian. Our conversation ranged from the writers strike in hollywood... to how I juggle all my jobs... to The Velvet Mafia(Gay mafia)... to nudity and pushing the limits in television. At the tail end of the night, we came back upon the subject of homosexuality. My friend had me read a scene from a script for an upcoming episode of "Dirt". The role was decent sized. He wants me to audition for it. I'm thankful that he even thinks of me in the first place. There's a problem though. The character is a teen heartthrob that is about to have his career ruined when he's arrested at a gay bar for...well lets just say "lude conduct". Here is my dilemma. You don't see any of this "stuff". Its just talked about in the past tense. While this "lude conduct" is not glorified, it also does not seem to be looked down on in any sense. Where do you draw the line? $1,000? $5,000? I haven't decided how much money I would have to be paid yet. Anyways, I want acting work. I want money. I want want want. What are the consequences of taking a job like this? What are the consequences of not taking a job like this? I don't really need to know. Just as I am wrote that last sentence, it occurred to me, "look in the bible for the answer". And then, a moment later, I'm thinking of some verse which is somewhat like this shoddy paraphrase "such things(evil) should not even be uttered among you". That's perhaps one of the worst paraphrases in the history of mankind. Basically I'm trying to say that what comes out of my mouth should be pure and holy and pleasing to God. Anything else is death.

1 Comments:

At November 16, 2007 at 8:00 PM , Blogger Nathan Bell said...

with our tongues we have the power of life and death... Prov.18;21

 

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