They paraded out that film to my sixth grade class. Some kids were shocked, others thought it was funny. One thing that struck me about it that was terrible. In the film the victim was charged by the police, [ as well as the man] and given probation. I couldn’t believe they would charge the victim.
Exactly, it wasn’t widespread back in my own youth. And neither were a lot of other things they warned us about- other films warned about drug addiction, cirrhosis, emphysema, tertiary syphilis. None of which were particularly widespread but it still doesn’t mean that it wasn’t useful to warn us about them.
For what it’s worth, I had never even heard of homosexuality when these feelings first manifested in me round about the year 1975 or so. I didn’t have a name for it, I just knew how I felt, and feel. Whether I was born this way is irrelevant, the way I see it. The truth is, the feelings exist, and I didn’t ask for them, or choose them, and nor do I delight in them. No sane person would have chosen this life, especially in 1975.
I have oftened wondered if there is not a particular agenda behind the multitude of threads…I got to thinking about how many there are here and did Google search on Catholicism and homosexuality, gay, ect…and the first hits are CAF…so some poor souls looking for direction on Catholicism and homosexuality, they see a plethora of these threads that basically sew more confusion…
I think it’s good to have the interaction, personally. The people doing this are reaching out for a personal connection with people they know are believers. Even if they are doing it to “stir the pot” it gives us a chance to show the love of God to them, show them the truth of our faith, and make personal connections with those who may not know or interact with Catholics in their real life. For good or malice, they were still led here and what a privilege to share our faith!
There are definitely some homosexuals that do seek to recruit teenaged boys. And that’s what the film gives a warning about.
You mean like how there are all kinds of straight men seeking to recruit teenagers? Again; that video is the silliest of scare propaganda that tries to paint all homosexual people as paedophiles. I was shown videos as a child warning about stranger danger, in particular about straight men who lure young girls away; does this mean that there’s a heterosexual agenda? Are straight people preying on our children?BoomBoomMancini:
There are definitely some homosexuals that do seek to recruit teenaged boys. And that’s what the film gives a warning about.
It probably wouldn’t be an appropriate film to show today to kids, because there are all sorts of men practicing homosexuality openly. But when it was being shown, these are the kinds of gay men that we teenagers had to be aware existed when we were hitchhiking a ride or whatever. That’s of course another thing about the film, we kids used to hitchhike all the time back in the day. Teens today don’t do that.
I hope this is true
