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."
IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE.
What an armpit :-D
Were any kids actually exposed to this? If not, I have to say its a lot of ado about nothing.
Oh, and potential AL Qaeda sleeper cells, but I digress....
Yep, hand me the torch and matches.
World Net Daily has lost it.
And I wandered plenty because it wasn't. That was also in the 60s and 70s. And I'd like children to be able to enjoy the sort of childhood I had rather than the sort of childhood you had.
Things AREN'T and never have been "nice". We just never used to talk about it.
You are buying the left-wing propaganda. That's how they define deviancy down.
If you had the grand-father who was raping his little grand-daughters, it didn't get talked about.
If you had a mother who enjoyed getting drunk and beating the living he%% out of her kids just because she could, you didn't dare mention it.
If Daddy drank the paycheck, you kept it a secret for as long as you could.
You seem to be missing the social checks and balances (including raw vigilante justice) that existed in many of those environments. No, they didn't eliminate those problems entirely but they weren't as hidden or as bad as you seem to think they were. Yes, I've heard what they used to do to people who stepped out of line like that. Heck, I know what would have happened when I was a child. Of course these days, nobody cares about their neighbors and we aren't allowed to be judgmental so being shunned by your neighbors wouldn't do much, if they neighbors would even dare to try it, and taking them down to the docks to beat the crap out of them would likely turn them into a victim-hero.
And it wasn't just "poor" families. That sort of stuff happens in "nice" families, too. always has, always will.
You also seem to be bying into the liberal propaganda that poverty causes crime and other problems. It doesn't.
It's alsonot a matter of whether it happens or not but how often it happens and how normal people think it is. You can't hide things from your neighbors as easily when you actually talk to them and they actually know you. A lot of it is simply a matter of caring about what other people think of you and other people being willing to express their disgust with you when they get out of line. Yeah, people used to do that and still do that in places. It works, too.
And it has never been safe to let a kid wander after dark.
Define "safe". I did plenty of wandering after dark. So did plenty of the kids I knew. Try living in a nicer area. They do exist. It's not as if they have all the same problems as Detroit but simply hide them better. They actually are "nicer". And it has nothing to do with wealth.
Also please note that I'm talking about growing up in New Jersey, not Iowa.
That Roman law you cite depends on the period, the Emperor ( if it's Post-Republic) and where in the Empire you were.
It was from the Twelve Tables.
The Romans got a lot of things right.
And the Romans got a lot of things wrong, too.
I assume you DID read this:
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.
And this:
They weren't checking IDs," she said, "and there were no age restrictions for any of the films."
Or how bout this?:
The seventh annual event set an attendance record with 22,660 moviegoers.
Call us all cynics, but what better time to do a bit of "recruiting," and "cruising" for fresh meat? I mean there are going to be more than a few "curious" kids wondering about, aren't there?
Oh, and potential AL Qaeda sleeper cells, but I digress...."
Good news/bad news...
Believe it or not Abury Park prices have tripled in the last 4 years [a gay clientele has helped the resurgence]. Long Branch has picked up as well, but both remain fairly dangerous in many neighborhoods.
In both cases it's a matter of a "Tale of Two Cities."
I don't have children, but when I do, it will be my responsibility (within my power) to be sure that I know everything they are exposed to. I don't believe that it's anyone else's responsibility. On the other hand, WHY have this stuff playing during a "Kids Day" - even if it is on another floor?
The problem with that is, adults are forced to live in a world where everything is kid-friendly. Following your rationale, even cable television (not just the networks) would need to be scrubbed clean because a kid somewhere in America might end up watching Cinemax when his parents weren't looking.
To put all the responsibility on the parents to manage this, as some posters have suggested, is ignorant and totally unreasonable.
The alternative is letting government have more power when it comes to raising your children.
To think that my kid might have to share a bathroom with some person who is enjoying an explicit film showing men in a threesome (Bear Cub) is totally unacceptable to me.
The solution to that problem is to not go to the theatre and/or complain to management. The marketplace will take care of the problem, one way or another.
really.
Maybe. Or, maybe, there were a lot of different independent movies playing and the organizers figured that kids would be supervised and taken to the appropriate movies.
Nothing in this article suggests that any children were exposed to innapropriate material or that any child was molested in any way.
Based on the article, the only thing that can be conclusively shown to have happened was that a movie for adults was shown in the same place as a movie for kids.
Look.
I'm going to try to do this as nicely as I can.
You and I aren't going to agree.
I've LIVED a bunch of the stuff I described. I'm not going to tell you which parts. It's THERE. And politics has little if nothing to do with it, and I don't appreciate being blown off and told that I am "buying into liberalism".
The stuff's out there.
Everywhere.
And some of the worst offences *I* have personally experianced have been at the hands of so-called Christians and people who ALWAYs voted Republican.
The message *I* started with was about how parents ought to pay some aattention to where their kids are, what they are doing, and who they are with.
For some reason, you want to hurl invective at ME, and IGNORE the fact that Kids Get Can HURT. It's up to us, as parents regardless of political stripe, to protect our kids.
Which is what I do.
Regarding Rome:
IF we had settled three Legions on Fallujah last spring, we would have had fewer dead Marines, Army and civilians.
And then we could impart baths, roads and libraries on that pest-hole.
Pax Americana!
To some, everything is morally relative...
Regarding disagreement over moral principle(s)... It could be suggested that the disordered, morally corrupt or depraved there is never infighting over moral principle that is long discarded, ignored or never adopted -to each 'his' own...
Disagreement on such matters by contrast implies division and relative depravity at some level -malformed conscience maybe...
If not universal Truth -then majority Truth...
What moral principle is in question here? We all agree that kids should not be exposed to explicit homosexual movies, but there is no evidence that any kids actually saw this movie.
Like I said, unless there is some evidence that kids were harmed here, this whole incident seems to be terribly overblown.
There is tons of new condo construction near the beach in Long Branch. A rising tide's lifted all boats.
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