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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's an icon of Mary and Jesus online being
voted on against a condom - the context is t-shirt design companies.
Voting ends tonight (I assume at midnight ending 3 Dec on some sort of USA
timezone.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Russian Orthodox icon is shown at <A
href="http://www.cafepress.com/shirteesnet/1223873">http://www.cafepress.com/shirteesnet/1223873</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The condom shirt is shown at <A
href="http://www.cafepress.com/burntees/663144">http://www.cafepress.com/burntees/663144</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At the moment the votes are 47 to the icon, 54 to
the condom.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't know how the competition works, but it
doesn't appear to be very mainstream - mainly t-shirt people with blogs who are
having an internal competition. And going through the previous rounds, I
think each company has a new shirt for each round. This seems to be the
finale.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you're inclined to vote, the voting page is <A
href="http://crjn.pollhost.com/">http://crjn.pollhost.com/</A> - you won't
see the icon there; you'll need to look at it elsewhere.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mrandrzejak@gmail.com
href="mailto:mrandrzejak@gmail.com">mrandrzejak@gmail.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Newsgroups:</B> alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic</DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:55 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> My Mary & Jesus Icon Painting</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hello everyone!<BR><BR>About two years ago, my wife and I were
married. As a gift for the<BR>priest that married us, I painted an Icon of Mary
& Jesus for him. He<BR>was very grateful. It is the first Icon I had ever
painted and as you<BR>can tell it, is not perfect. But I am getting better! The
link to my<BR>painting is here:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.shirtees.net/mary-greeting-sm.jpg">http://www.shirtees.net/mary-greeting-sm.jpg</A><BR><BR>I
had entered it into a design contest recently and it was in first<BR>place for a
few days, but the competing design (about condoms no less)<BR>is actually
winning over my painting. The voting ends tonite at<BR>midnight.<BR><BR>Id like
to send a message to the internet world that Mary & Jesus are<BR>important,
especially this time of the season. If you can please vote<BR>for me and email
any friends you might think would be interested in<BR>voting for my painting, go
to this link... <A
href="http://crjn.pollhost.com/">http://crjn.pollhost.com/</A><BR><BR>Thanks for
your time and your vote and I hope you have a Merry<BR>Christmas!<BR><BR>Kindest
Regards, David Andrzejak<BR></BODY></HTML>