
CHRIST's Bride, Ministries' Response to Visitor's Requests for Use of "CBM's pictures"
So,
you want to use "CBM's pictures" do you?! How dare you!
Please sir, we wee little ones would be ever so grateful, and it is so very important, and we don't know where else to turn, Please sir, please help us.
Well, I guess you are just dear little angels in need of a little help.
Oh thank you ever so much dear kind sir, we will pray for you every night, why we will even pray to God that He will send you a most especially beautiful darling bride.
Well - that is music to my ears, and Heaven knows I could certainly use some help in persuading God to finally bless me after all of these decades!!! but not so fast, not so fast!
Thank you for your request to use pictures displayed on CBM's website(s). On behalf of CBM, I am personally inclined to grant you permission to use such pictures, however, I can not do so, because it is not mine to give, i.e., CBM owns only a comparatively few of the images displayed on CBM's websites.
The images displayed on CBM's websites are overwhelmingly from the first of the following sources (i.e., Corel's Galleries):
1. Corel's Galleries [Corel's galleries of clip art and photos are inexpensive when purchased as sets, and previously were readily available at many retail & Internet outlets, including directly from Corel, e.g., http://www.Corel.com (unfortunately, Corel does not seem to be offering the Galleries currently for "purchase," as far as I can tell)] - "Purchase" of the Corel photos does not confer "ownership" of the photos, i.e., "purchase" does not permit the "purchaser" to resell the pictures, nor to give them away for others to use, as they are not owned by the "purchasers," i.e., instead the pictures are merely theirs to use, but they are not theirs to resell...nor to grant the use of. As to whether Corel would possibly permit public schools to display the images freely, I do not know and I rather doubt that would be the case; therefore, you definitely should check with Corel before making any such use.
2. CBM's photos [e.g., of CBM's ABC-Link Public Service Campaign, and CBM's banners] - You may use CBM's photos freely, with the proviso that you provide acknowledgement/explanation/attribution of the image(s) source.
Thank you for contacting Christ's Bride Ministries.
Ah yes, for those of you who think there are pictures used which should not be, I can say I have spent much time combing for the best or most appropriate and fitting pictures I can find. In some instances I have had to settle for a selection less varied than I would choose, due to lack of alternative selections (for instance the overwhelming majority of pictures of women are of young, slender, blonde, Caucasian women, I would provide a more varied sampling of the "fairer sex," but simply cannot).
Additionally, some pictures displayed on the site will be considered unnecessarily revealing, risqué, and even indecent for a Christian site - I do not claim that my judgment is 100% flawless perfection (though I do try). Regardless what others may believe, GOD is not a prude (I know for a fact that I am more prudish than God), and finally, putting one's head in the sand is not the way to combat evil (and whether you know it or not, your children are exposed to evil, and need an antidote of truth, bold, graphic, honest, powerful truth, even if it is too much for queasy parents).
Blessings,
Ed/Editor, President & CBW (chief bottle washer), also known as CF (chief flunky), & on this site as "the boss"
Christ's Bride Ministries
PS - Please tell me how you happened upon the photo(s) at CBM's website(s), and how you happened onto CBM's website(s)? Also, please feel free to write to me about anything of interest to you.
If interested in seeing and hearing CBM's TV & radio programs please contact me:
you may direct e-mail to me via TVRadio@ChristsBride-min.com
Additionally, if you would be interested in helping enable CHRIST's Bride, Ministries to produce these programs professionally, and broadcast them on major media, please contact me.
Thank you,
Editor, aka "Ed," CBM
Blessings, Numbers 6:24-27
how do you like that, they ask to use a measly picture, &
he asks them to help with tv & radio programs! (i'm surprised he didn't try
to get them to help him corral a wife too!)
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boy, what a dreamer the boss is, if he had a picture here of every lady he's wanted to marry that wouldn't even give him the time of day, it would make this the biggest website on the www!!! & good night! he's getting so old i could be his grandson! oh well, at least he doesn't work me too hard, he doesn't have any time to think of things for me to do, as a matter of fact, he's so busy and frazzled he doesn't even find time to think about finding a wife, much less to notice me crawling around here.
what's all the commotion about?
i'm afraid the boss needs our help!
oh no! not that! please not that! not again!