Once it became culturally OK for men to wear earrings (well, at least in California!), I've been astounded at how many older men - guys in their 60s and 70s - started wearing them.

It's almost as if they've secretly waited their whole lives to be able to wear earrings.

Strange...

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Westminster Presbyterian Church, CA (OPC)
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I wear 'em, but I'm not in my 60s or 70s.

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Bookslover,
Are you wanting us to validate your getting an earring?
FWIW, I have one but I haven't worn it for several years.

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Donnie MacLeod
Crossroads Presbyterian Fellowship (PCA), Maplewood, MO
MDiv Student Covenant Theological Seminary

You filled my heart with greater joy
than others may have found
As they rejoiced at harvest time,
when grain and wine abound.Ps 4:7, Sing Psalms 2003

I had four at this time. (2002) I still have the holes but I don't wear them any longer. I outgrew the desire to wear them. I rather like getting older and looking and acting my age.

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No. I'm just curmudgeonly enough to think that, in our culture, earrings should be for females...

Amen to that.

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Adam J. Myer
Back to looking for a call...
Evergreen PCA
Salem, Oregon

Which culture is that?

The culture which prevailed before relatively recent times when it then became marginally acceptable for men to wear women's jewelry in public.

I won't say that it is wrong for men to wear earrings. However, the men in my life don't and I like it that way. I know some very manly men that wear earrings (pirates, Mr. Clean). However, I solidified my opinion on this when I was in the doctor's office. There was a child with long braided hair and earrings named Chris. I remarked that Chris was a pretty girl, much to his mother's dismay. I don't mean to of long hair on men, but long braided hair, earrings, and Chris? I felt like I had met a child's version of Pat from SNL.

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Evon Taylor
Okinawa Covenant Church, PCA
Okinawa, Japan

having an earing violates no biblical standards...let's all get'em

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John
Evangelical Free Church, no offices held
Langhorne, PA

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[B]ιδου ποιω τα εσχατα ως τα πρωτα.
הבל הבלים[/B]

I don't think guys wearing earings is a new thing. I'm 50, and I can remember two guys in high school who wore earings. Times must have been tough back then, 'cause each could only afford one earing. As I recall, both wore their earings on the left ear. Not sure why, maybe they were both right handed and it was easier to get it on that ear.

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Bob Howes
Framingham, MA

A reoccurring thought:

Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

As long as they carry a matching purse it's ok.

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Psa 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Psa 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
James Farley, Wilderness Road Baptist Assembly.
Husband of Melissa and father of Ann.
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I agree. There's nothing worse than a guy wearing earings when their purse doesn't match. A bit tacky, if you ask me.

It use to be a good argument that only sissies wore earings. Then, Michael Jordan and others like him started wearing them, so that blows that argument right out of the water!!!

<wondering>
So, if Michael started wearing high heels, does that mean its ok to...
</wondering>

To those who wear earrings...well, that's their business. But this Bubba don't wear no earrrings.

Never did, never will.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor
Maranatha Baptist Church
Poplar Grove, Illinois USA
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Husband to Nancy
Father to Sherril, Sarah, Kathryn
Grandfather to Phillip
Faith is the refusal to panic. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Its not a purse, it is a carry all.

I put holes in my ears to be a 'rebel'.. And once I met my wife, I pretty much doubled my inventory!!!!

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N. Robert; Trinity Reformed Church RCA, Holland MI

Once in a while you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right."

Yeah...

That would be OK too.

Because, let's face it. MJ has more 'manliness' in his little pinky toe than any of us have in our entire bodies.

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Not really. Take a closer look at his life, you may come up with a different conclusion.

I forget, what was the Gay ear? If a man wore a ring in what ear?

I seem to remember a saying, something like "Left is right, right is wrong" to help people remember. The right ear?

Gay ear? Is that part of the same rule as the one about rainbow avatars?

I always was too stuffy to do it myself. When one of my sons got them, I went a little postal (he had those big "plugs" for a time, the kind that look deformative). Now this son wears more modest sized earrings and it is fine with me. My other boys (the pastor and the lawyer) show no interest in ear decorations.

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Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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Great picture, Randy. Did you have tatooes to go with the earrings?

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Stephen Welch
PCA Teaching Elder
Nova Scotia

Remember the line, left is right and right is wrong.