Posted on 08/12/2004 8:30:30 AM PDT by Area Freeper
An actor who played prominent roles in a homosexual-themed play paralleling the life of Jesus Christ is on trial this week for allegedly seeking sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy he met on the Internet.
Steven Shriner, 42, of Hoboken, N.J., portrayed the characters of both Jesus' mother Mary and the apostle Peter in "Corpus Christi," a production of the Chicago-based Ulysses Theatre Company about a victim of "homophobes" in a Texas high school who eventually performs miracles for his 12 disciples.
According to the Trentonian newspaper, Shriner allegedly used his home computer in January of last year for the "express purpose of meeting and having sex with a boy."
During opening statements, Deputy Attorney General Charles Ouslander said Shriner entered a sexually explicit chat room, thinking he was conversing with a teen boy, whose screen name was Timpit6668. In reality, Shriner was speaking with investigator Brian Damiani who was typing on his undercover computer at the Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton.
Shriner allegedly sought to meet Timpit6668, discussing the location and activities in which the two would engage.
He also sent a video clip of himself masturbating.
"I have more ; ) ," Shriner allegedly wrote, according to printouts of the conversations.
The Trentonian says authorities closed in on the suspect at a pizza place in Hamilton, N.J., when he showed up and flashed his lights, which was the agreed code.
Armed with a search warrant, authorities recovered 24 images of suspected child pornography involving kids between the ages of 8 and 10.
Defense attorney Will Anklowitz said Shriner believed he was dealing with someone who was 18 years old at the time he entered the porn site, since a disclaimer at the chat room's entrance stated users must be at least 18.
Shriner is charged with attempted sexual assault, which carries up to a ten-year prison term. He also faces charges of attempted sexual contact, luring and enticing a juvenile, attempted endangering the welfare of a child and possessing child pornography.
In a review of "Corpus Christi," Chicago Tribune writer Chris Jones said the play "strives to link homophobia with the persecutions suffered by Christ. ...
"This is an elegant, intelligent show that is so much in tune with authorial intention that it takes the script to new levels of theatrical and political dignity."
What really angers me is that the press had to say that he was an actor that played Christ. If he had played any other part it would have been just an actor, or not even reported. It is sensationalism and makes me sick that they would try to bring Christ down to our level in such a way.
You do know that Joshua is the Hebrew Jesus, right?
See, I'm not so sure that's even the case.
And for the LAST time people, this play was staged in Chicago, not Texas.
Good luck on judgement day!!!
I don't want to pick a dog in this fight yet, but just to address the possibility, consider that if it's genetic, maybe it's a recessive gene.
Better than killing him, lock him up in prison in the general population, and let the other convicts know that he likes little boys. Convicts just "LOVE" child molesters!!!
I hadn't considered that. But it mocks Christ and in essence the city named after him and the faith of the many Catholic and Christian Texans. I'm just surprised they let it be shown and in a school at that. What a piece of garbage.
or a combination of multiple recessive factors.
*shrugging*
it is conceivable that multiple recessives, each with its own independent value, in combination produce the counter-productive phenotype.
*shrugging*
Posit for me please an independant natural value for homosexual behavior.
You mean their level. The gays are again trying to twist and warp and mock Christianity.
I do not, nor do I believe anyone credibly can.
However, I can consider the possiblity that root sexual orientation might derive from the expression of many independent genes.
Individual mutations of these genes which are either not expressed, not harmful, or beneficial would be inherited by filial generations, perhaps as recessives, perhaps as dominants.
I am positing that it is POSSIBLE that the (as I called it earlier) COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE phenotype (homosexuality) only results from the combination of several of these atypical variant independent genes.
This is a chickenhawk, not a pedophile. They seek to prey upon confused or curious adolescents. Their only way of reproducing.
still, by the way, illegal, sick, and disgusting...
Actually it's the fourth law of homosexuality
The first law:
Homosexuals don't reproduce, they recruit
The second law:
To the mentally healthy (heterosexual), sex is something you do.
To the mentally diseased ('homosexual'), sex is everything you are.
The third law:
Any exposure of children to homosexual behavior is child abuse
And the new fourth law:
Scummy people tend to do scummy things
(with it's first correllary:
Most 'homosexuals' really are child molestors)
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I'm beginning to think that homosexuality is a mental disease.
It was, until homosexual activism forced its removal from the diagnostic manual as documented here.
It does not seem to me in the slightest implausible that a gene might cause people who carry it (whether male or female) to be unusually-strongly attracted to females; while this would likely reduce reproductive success rates for females with the gene, it might increase it for males sufficiently to offset the reduction in females.
It is also not implausible that another gene might cause attraction toward males, again with similar (but sex-reversed) consequences.
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