Posted on 12/07/2004 8:30:04 AM PST by Taggart_D
Films featuring steamy homosexual sex scenes were shown at an independent film festival in Delaware on the event's "Kid's Day," while children were entertained in another part of the building.
The Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival in Rehoboth Beach, Del., took place Nov. 11-14. The seventh annual event set an attendance record with 22,660 moviegoers.
On Nov. 13, which the festival dubbed "Kids Day," children were shown independent children's films in an upstairs screening room of the Movies at Midway multiplex while explicit sex scenes were screening in other theaters. Also, other non-festival children's movies, including "The Incredibles" and "Polar Express," were being shown simultaneously.
Rehoboth Beach resident Cindy Carter says she was "horrified" by the possibility that on a Saturday afternoon children could easily wander into one of the other theaters and take in part of a sexually explicit independent film.
Carter holds a masters degree in film and video and says she doesn't want to ban homosexual or erotic films, but she questions placing children so near to the screenings.
"There's a very large, very active homosexual group here" in Rehoboth Beach, she told WorldNetDaily, though she says she would be just as outraged if it had been heterosexual sex scenes being shown at the festival.
"They weren't checking IDs," she said, "and there were no age restrictions for any of the films."
"I thought this was irresponsible," she continued. "They were endangering children."
Carter researched several of the unrated films shown at the festival and discovered the explicit nature of the movies being shown.
"There was really no way to know this was happening," Carter told WND, saying the festival's brochure did not communicate how explicit some of the films were.
Carter went on a local talk-radio show to publicize the issue, but she was criticized by local homosexual activists.
Said Carter: "The local newspaper, which has a lot of homosexuals who work there, which is fine, said I bashed the film, but nobody wanted to address the child-endangerment issue."
Emphasizing that she is not a lawyer, Carter noted she thinks the festival may have broken Delaware obscenity laws by having children in the multiplex while explicit homosexual films were playing. A strip joint or X-rated theater would not have a "Kids Day" where children are entertained in the same building, she said.
Carter pointed out one of the films in question had a title that children would be attracted to – "Bear Cub." The film, however, is not family fare.
"Bear Cub" begins with an explicit homosexual sex scene featuring three men.
Said a review of the film: "This film pulls no punches as to its display of Pedro's active sexual lifestyle. We are treated to his sexual escapades vividly."
One review from a homosexual publication urges the reader to "get there on time for a very hot opening credits sequence! … There's a big fat erection in the opening credits!"
Another reviewer pans the film for including the "unnecessary long sequence ... as well as another one in a gay bathhouse."
Another film shown on "Kids Day" was "Sugar." In "Sugar," a homosexual teenager loses his virginity to a male prostitute on screen. The drug-dependent hooker also services an obese woman in the film.
A third questionable film is "X, Y," which tells a dark story about gender identity and includes an ample supply of blood, sex and piercings.
Sue Early, the festival's managing director, said Carter's concerns were overblown.
"There were implications that we were showing graphic movies during our 'Kids Day' on Saturday. We don't show any pornography at the festival," Early told the Delaware Coast Press. "And the kids' movies were all shown in the upstairs screening room, not in the theaters, where the children were accompanied by their parents."
Quipped Carter: "I'm afraid to think of what she considers pornography."
Carter says another problem was the fact that alcohol was being served in a tent outside the multiplex.
"We've had a very big problem around here with gay men being arrested in bathrooms having sex," Carter said, wondering what a pedophile might do "after having drinks outside, coming back in, watching sexually explicit gay porn, and then going into a bathroom where little children are."
Carter has been frustrated that no one locally would address the issue. She sent a nine-page letter to several elected officials, as well as a U.S. Attorney and state Attorney General M. Jane Brady, hoping that someone might hold the festival to account.
"The local media won't touch it," she said. "This is a very wealthy group of homosexuals."
Referring to next year's festival, Carter commented: "This has got to never happen again."
Much of this country was kid-friendly for quite a few years and we seemed to do pretty well. I would also argue that some people won't be happy until the only place that it kid-friendly is within the safety of their own homes, without access to television, radio, or other media.
The questionable movie was shown in a private movie theatre. It certainly was not on TV or the radio.
Don't you know that it's the job of the rest of society to babysit your kids for you?
This stuff seems to be pretty discrete. My wife's family owns a beach house in Dewey. You never see any of this stuff. Just a lot of people from DC and Phillie vacationing.
Apparently I'm ignorant and have been missing out on year's worth of free day-care!
Seriously, I used to work at a theater. I'd never just "dump" my daughter at one.. all sorts of things go on....
That's it! Hold a Kid's Day at the same time and location you have a gay film festival. Convenient.
Question_Assumptions wrote:
Much of this country was kid-friendly for quite a few years and we seemed to do pretty well. I would also argue that some people won't be happy until the only place that it kid-friendly is within the safety of their own homes, without access to television, radio, or other media.
You should be able to drop your kids off at the mall or movie theatre all day without any adult supervision. That's what child-rearing is all about!
i guess I'm just not doing it right.
Heck, *I* avoid the Mall. The one closest to us has a VERY nasty reputation.
NEVER go there on weekends or after dark ( Not a strain or a hardship... I mostly hate it anyway! ) but I would sure never just leave my daughter there!
But were these children exposed to any overt displays of Christianity?
well said
That's my perception as well, and as someone who's lived on the Delmarva Peninsula and spent time in Rehoboth off and on since the late 50's, I've seen the transition. In fact my wife and I just took a couple of days down there about the time of this event (though we knew nothing of it).
In the off-season much of the traffic is there for the outlet stores which have grown up along the highway. Downtown was a totally family-oriented vacation town until the late 60's when it got counterculturish, and then the gays started coming in during the mid/late 70's. Even so it's not a bad place most of the time if you know where to avoid. During the summer the place is way too crowded for my taste so I rarely go during that time of year.
Well, I'm really not the person you want to ask.
I''m not a Christian.
On the other hand, I think Christians ought to be free to worship as they wish, and when someone says "Merry Christmas" to me, i don't get all offended or come unglued.
I smile at them, take the kind thought for what it is, and say "Merry Christmas" right back.
You need to stop watching The Simpsons.
Get a life.
Earlier in this century, yeah, much.
There has always been a heck of a lot of rape, murder, enslavement, exploitation and abuse of children.
Between, say, 1940 and 1965?
It's thousands of years old and is rampant right now.
"Rampant" in comparison to what? Remember that Roman law required badly deformed children to be put to death.
The difference is that Way Back When, more parents in this country kept their kids close and didn't let them wander unsupervised. Why?
Hardly. My father grew up in during the Depression in Jersey City and wandered all over the place without parental supervision. So did I, many decades later in the 1960s and 1970s. Heck, my father and uncles had jobs to help support their families as children and children my age went all over the place on paper routes alone. Perhaps you've become so used to the way things are now that you think they've always been that way.
Because the parents KNEW what could happen and what was out there. The Bad Guys always have been and always will be, out there.
I'm not sure which country you grew up in but it sounds like a much worse place than the one that I grew up in or my parents grew up in. If there is one comment that I hear again and again from my older relatives, it's that things used to be "nice" and aren't now. Maybe you never experienced that but I did, even though I came along around the end of it.
And, no, this isn't just the lens of nostalgia. I got a modern glimpse of "nice" while living in Japan, though it's certainly flawwed there, and have seen it in "flyover country", too. One can also find it by watching old television shows, movies, and by reading old books. It still exists, just not so much in the Blue State wastelands and the cynical media that comes out of those states.
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