Something like that happened up here a couple of years ago. Name and pic ended up in the local paper, because it wasn't the first time he was caught assaulting Sugarfoot. I'll bet his family was mortified : (
I'm trying to figure out where Cotton Mather comes into this.
I know that Cotton Mather was an a one of the most influential Puritan ministers in Colonial America, I've read some of his writings but it was so long ago I don't remember specifics. However, I doubt he, or any other priest, minister or rabbi prior to about ten or twenty years ago, ever imagined that a groups promoting homosexuality and bestiality would ever be accepted by even the smallest segment of the American public.