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The Bedroom Business Of Christians
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What Christians do in their bedroom is their business:
By Nadine Thomas-Brown, Guardian Lifestyles Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:



Jamaican Dancehall artist Charmaine "Macka Diamond" Munroe says that what people do in their bedrooms is their own business.

This comes a couple of months after she spoke to church members at City of Praise Church, Ajax St., at the invitation of Pastor Arthur Duncombe to speak at a seminar entitled "Angels By Day, Monsters By Night".

Pastor Duncombe had to defend his actions on Joy FM's "Joy In the Morning" show with Kevin Harris, when he said he was helping wives to keep their husbands from being enticed away.

Harris had taken exception to a secular artist being brought into what they viewed as sacred grounds. However, Duncombe's congregation, more specifically the women who had attended the conference, quickly jumped to the pastor's defense. "We have a lot of Christian marriages which are falling apart and sex is a very important part of marriage," said Joann Ferguson, 39, who had commented at the height of the furor.

Duncombe told The Guardian that the conference gave Christian women some "know how" in the battle to keep their husbands interested in them sexually, a concern he said many Christian men and women had brought to him over the course of his eight years as a pastor.

He said that many Christian women were so caught up in their "Christianity" that they neglected their spousal duties, and that the invitation to "Macka Diamond" was his way of trying to teach his congregation that intercourse between married couples was ordained by God, and that the very nature of how humans came into being should show that our maker had no problems with the act.

"What you do in your bedroom is your own business and many of the women in the church are married to non-Christians," said Macka Diamond, while in the country over the weekend for a recent performance.

She said that at first she was doubtful about coming to participate in the church conference as she thought she was being tricked, and that they wanted to get her to the country to criticize her songs. She said after the pastor called her and explained that he was trying things from a different perspective and that the church ladies had requested her she caved in. "When he explained, I thought it was a good idea," she said.

Macka Diamond said that at the conference she tried to be down-to-earth with the women whom she felt needed to lighten up even though they were Christians. "Back in the day people used to say that Christians had to be a certain way, so some have grown up thinking the same things," she said.

"I showed the women some moves that they could use," she said referencing the Hoola-hoop (a dance move which imitates the famous 70s game). She steered clear of any mention of "Belly Yukking".

At the time that the issue became hot in the public domain, members of the church who had attended the conference swore that the entertainer had not demonstrated any dance moves and had only spoken to the women.

She also said she'd heard the feedback from the conference and that some preachers were upset by it but wasn't really worried about it. "The pastor was able to achieve what he had planned for the congregation despite the negativity attached," she said.

"Macka Diamond" says Christians are people like everyone else need to be able to live a normal life, and as long as they do not kill anyone, live a bad life and are following the commandments, that should be good enough for everyone . "What you do in your bedroom is your own business and many of the women in the church are married to non-Christians," she said.

The artist said that she would definitely come again if asked.

Macka Diamond who is currently engaged seems to have taken a moral high-ground as of late. She recently wrote a book entitled "Bu'n Him" taken from the title of her hit song. While the song encourages a kind of tit-for-tat in terms of cheating the book is not like the song, according to her. "It talks about the real issues pertaining to cheating and does not condone it," she said. "Bu'n Him", described as Jamaica's first dancehall novel, examines the pitfalls of infidelity. The colloquial use of the word "burn" refers to the act of cheating on one's sexual partner.

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