Whatever next?

I haven't actually seen The Boys of St Vincent but it looks [H/T: Telstar] like exploitative anti-Catholic crap, with no understanding of the real nature of the Church’s problems or of how real child molesters actually operate. The funniest thing about these “child abuse” films is that they don’t even show children being abused. It’s not very edifying to reflect that if they did then most people would be less scandalised by it.

Why do I say this? Partly because people very quickly become innoculated by the media. It's only a matter of time before something that at first seemed terrible and unmentionable, whether it be war or famine or whatever, becomes just another news story. In a similar sort of way, things that a generation ago would have disgusted Middle England to its very core are now part of our mainstream media entertainment.

A good example of this would in fact be underage intergenerational gay sex. When Queer as Folk was first broadcast it was illegal to have gay sex with children. Rightly or wrongly, the Labour Government put an end to that, and now it's legal to sodomise children over the age of 16 but it's not legal (under the 1979 Protection of Children Act) to take photographs of them. (Logic, where is thy sting?) The show is about an adult male who seduces and sodomises a 15-year-old kid. All so very liberating! I thought the lad in the English version was actually pretty rough. In the Yankee re-make of course he's much much cuter.

My point (here it comes) is that when Queer as Folk was first broadcast there was a wholly confected media controversy. The usual stuff about homosexuality, paedophilia, dumbing down at the BBC, and so on. Nowadays of course the plot to Queer as Folk would be little more than a subplot on Skins or Hollyoaks, parents are more than happy to let their teenagers drink in this sewage. The man behind the original show is now "the funny man who brought back Doctor Who" and the absolute darling of Middle England. No English Christmas would be complete without his "genius". And if a 14-year-old lad "comes out" to his parents then presumably all they're expected to do is make sure his read the chapter in his science textbook about how to be put on a condom. (It's the only part of any subject they still enjoy at school, and it's certainly the Government's favourite.)

The really funny thing is that (as I intimated in my last post) the whole "gay rights" lobby is now a revolutionary movement, and it needs its revolution to continue indefinitely to maintain itself. At the moment we look set for a Tory Government in this country, and even with likes of John Bercow and Alan Ducan on the new "Liberal Conservative" front bench it seems unlikely that much will change under David Cameron. (Gay foxhunters might get a break, which should give a new meaning to the phrase "Think pink!", but apart from that...) But all good things come to an end, and in times of economic turbulence Governments tend not to last long.

What will the "not-paedophile" gay Left have planned for us after Labour's next landslide? I genuinely dread to think.

UPDATE: In response to His Majesty's comments, I can only reiterate my point. It's not really in the scope of this blog to discuss the problems of the Roman Catholic Church, but its biggest problem nowadays is that its clergy behave like a law unto themselves and give very little regard to the psychological/spiritual wellbeing of the laity under their charge. If this moral can somehow be read into this particular "true" story (which I haven't seen) then all well and good. But the reality is that there are some gays who are happy to join the morally and spiritually disinterested body of the Catholic clergy in order to hide away from the morals and other social conventions of the real world, and if they can then use their positions (or what they would call their "vocations") in order to satisfy their perverted lusts then they'll do that as well. This is of course not the standard way in which gays who want to molest children get access to them. Normal operating procedure for male paedophiles is to target single mothers. The naughty priest/Scoutmaster/piano teacher is a favourite pedo fantasy: the emotionally manipulative stepfather, not to mention his "friends", is closer to reality.