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."
May God help our country.
"Child rearing?"
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I take it you've never been to Rehobeth. It's normally about as racy as any other family-oriented vacation spot on the Atlantic seaboard. Fire Island it ain't.
That is absolutely F'd up!
I think I'm going to throw up.....
For the last time, homosexuals PREY UPON CHILDREN. Can we stop beating around the bush (no pun intended) on this? These people and the acts they commit are disgusting.
I was down in Ocean City and Rehoboth, great places!!! I think Rehoboth has a rep as a gay place...."not that there is anything wrong with that." Ocean City is way cool.
So they were concerned that kids might wander out of kids' films and end up in a theater showing movies not for kids? How is that different than any other night at any other theater?
Rehobeth Beach was once a great place to vacation with the entire family. It's been 4 or 5 years since I've been there. In years past, the gay community has always had a visible, yet non "in-your-face" presence. It looks like that has changed. I will think twice about vacationing there in the future.
This is what I had always heard when I lived in Maryland. I've only driven through the place.
Muleteam1
"They were endangering children."
Surely not.
After all, the acts depicted in these films was probably nothing more than good old American Hard-Core Homosexual pornography. There isn't anything wrong with this, in fact, if the homosexuals have their way, these will be the only legitimate relationships in the future. How else are the children supposed to learn how to behave sexually with another of the same gender, if not from film? I'll answer my own question: From the MSM.
These are the same people who want to be Boy Scout leaders. And we have the temerity to be upset about children potentially VIEWING this, when they could DOING this if only the BSA would relent and let the homosexuals have access to the boys.
End of Sarcasm Rant.
Decades of continued lack of responsibility for ones actions have brought us here. Continued turning away from God. May God have mercy on us all and protect the children from these animals.
Ocean City is a little trashy, kind of like the Jersey shore. Dewey and Rehobeth are more family-oriented, though you're probably right that Rehobeth draws more gay tourists.
Some people won't be happy until the entire world is kid-friendly.
For anyone thinking of vacationing with children in Delaware: don't wander away from the family beaches, or you might encounter some activities you'd prefer to miss. The homosexual areas have been expanding, too, so don't assume things are as they were on your last vacation.
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."
"...not that there's anything wrong with it..."
Children wandering into the other theater?
So what decent parent lets any child under the age of 14 go to the movies without adult supervison?
How are these children "wandering about"?
The corrupt judge the innocent as an affront to their decadence. Just ask a liberal.
The economic boom and the improving social climate--"even Dewey Beach is getting a bit gay," Elkins says, referring to the town next to Rehoboth that was traditionally favored by rowdy fraternity boys--have brought the social scene to an all-time peak.
A former co-worker sold his place there because of the "incursion," as he called it.
Businesses are trying to horn in on the happy-hour time slot that was traditionally dominated by parties in private homes; there will be tea dances this summer at several Rehoboth restaurants, including Yum Yum and Purple Parrot (mixed crowds) and the Beach House (for women). But the houses are fighting back, scheduling events for this summer with themes ranging from "Squirt Gun Party 4" to "Saving Ryan's Privates."
Women have helped drive the town's growth, Elkins says, "not only coming to the beach but buying houses and staking out a real life here. Even the new leather bar that opened last year is getting some women in there."
Sounds like good clean family fun!
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