Almost exactly one year ago, in August of 2011, we reported that a mental health group made up of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals were advocating for a change in society’s negative view of pedophilia. As reported by OneNewsNow.com, Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber attended the mental health conference, and stated: “The entire focus of the event was on the victimhood of the pedophile. There was “very little concern for the children who are the victims of these individuals when they are raped, who these individuals lust after,” he adds.
And he says the experts’ discussions were focused on “destigmatizing pedophilia … removing the stigma, and [getting] the public to stop demonizing pedophiles.” …
In our report less than one year ago, we commented that it may seem ludicrous to think that pedophilia would ever be condoned, but it was certainly a step in that direction.
While that may have been one small step down the path of “destigmatizing pedophilia,” Hollywood had now made a giant leap in that direction.
Just released by Hollywood is a film entitled “Killer Joe” which stars A-list, heart-throb actor Matthew McConaughey – a movie which earned a NC-17 rating (what used to be called an X rating). If a film receives an NC-17 rating, you know it must contain graphic sexual content. Such a rating has always doomed it at the box office. And movie companies would make any cuts necessary to avoid such a rating. So what caused the NC-17 rating of this movie? Pedophilia and nudity. The movie features a sickening sexual relationship between McConaughey’s character and a 12 year old girl.
This is what Fox News reported regarding the film:
“… the southern gothic crime thriller centers on a broken, drug-dealing young man who convinces his dad and stepmom to join him in hiring corrupt small-town Texas sheriff Joe (played by McConaughey) to murder his mom in an effort to obtain her life insurance policy.
But as a financial “retainer,” they willingly give the sheriff their sweetly innocent 12-year-old sister/daughter Dottie as his sexual muse – and there’s no full frontal nudity or explicit innuendos spared.
But while the strict “no children under 17” rating might affect the film’s performance at the box office, some experts predict that it may give the film a cult following.
“While it may affect the ability to market a film, it brings a whole new cache of subversive marketing, and mainstream actors who give it legitimacy, credibility and raise it to a whole new level,” box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian told the Associated Press.
“Let’s wear it as a badge and keep it shined!” McConaughey said of the NC-17 rating for “Killer Joe.”
Still, despite his embrace of the rating, it took quite some convincing before the actor signed on to play a pedophile police man in what has been conceived as a humor-driven movie.
“I thought (the script) was gross. I put it down and threw it in the trash and wanted nothing to do with it. Then I took a long, hot shower,” he told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. “But some other people close to me read it and their opinion was 180 degrees different from mine. They were laughing so I went back and read it. The first time I read it I got so sucked into this ugly world, I never could get above that to see any levity or humanity. I just thought it was icky, sticky, gross and I didn’t want to be in that company. Once I got the humor, it allowed me to see the story and the humanity.”
Only that’s not where the stomach-churning story ends. …
So why would Hollywood produce a film featuring pedophilia knowing the rating it would receive and thus greatly reducing ticket sales? What could be more important than profit? I can think of no other reason than to take a step toward legitimizing sex with children and lowering the age of consent. As stated above, a mainstream actor such as McConaughey brings “legitimacy and credibility.”
What is Hollywood trying to legitimize with this movie? Sex with children!
The power of the entertainment industry to influence thoughts, values, and behavior is widely recognized. A recent study from Dartmouth College concluded what is observable all around us – that “adolescents who are exposed to more sexual content in movies start having sex at younger ages, have more sexual partners, and are less likely to use condoms with casual sexual partners.”
Along with Hollywood, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has a practice of withholding “moral judgment” from perversion – and thus denying that there are thoughts and behaviors that are morally wrong.
Where once there was a great social stigma regarding pornography, psychologists will now “prescribe” that married couples view pornography together as a supposed marital aid!
Not that long ago our society viewed homosexuality for what it is – sexual deviancy. However, in the 1970s the APA ‘declassified” homosexuality as a mental disorder – putting such deviancy on the same level as heterosexuality. Now just a few decades later we are in a fight to preserve traditional, biblical marriage that has stood for all time and we Christians are the ones labeled as “abnormal, intolerant homophobes” – if we state that homosexual behavior is morally wrong. Just ask Kirk Cameron.
Is this the path we are on regarding pedophilia?
As Hollywood and an A-List actor proudly produce such filth, there can be no other conclusion – we are not merely “slouching toward Gomorrah” – we’ve arrived.
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