Trojan Horse Alert 2

Back in August 2006 I described the Radical Left's agenda for sending America the rest of the way down their hedonistic moral sinkhole. In their own words, the agenda is described like this: "First let the camel get his nose inside the tent - and only later his unsightly derriere!"

Alan Sears of the Alliance Defense Fund summarized the first key principle of this agenda like this: "Almost all behavior begins to look normal if you are exposed to enough of it at close quarters and among your acquaintances."

In my first Trojan Horse alert, I noted a growing trend in major motion pictures. Homosexual characters that were once quirky, comic relief characters with obscure lifestyles have become main characters in films like Brokeback Mountain complete with full love scenes. More and more in the media, this lifestyle behavior is depicted as "normal". For example, how many recent action movies include at least a little girl-girl action? It's almost become as common as the car chase. Consider also the upcoming release of Milk starring Sean Penn and based on the true-life story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in (where else?) San Francisco. In the trailer we already begin to hear anti-gay steretypes being served up by white, bigotted men and being trounced by this humble, amiable, and most importantly, infalliable gay man. One must expect that the full-length film contains more than a brief trailer can show. That he was killed and made a martyr for the pro-gay cause adds to the emotional power of the film. Oops! Did I give away the ending? Well, you weren't going to see it anyway.

What has been even more troubling is the fact that the "unsightly derriere" has been coming more into view with the release of a movie about a woman who had a sexual relationship with a dog. Fortunately, that movie didn't do so well, but that ice is broken. I predict we haven't seen the last of animal love. We're already seeing animals in anthropomorphized sexual situations in movies like Beverly Hills Chihuahua. I remember back in the days of my innocent youth I loved the movie Oh Heavenly Dog. In one scene Benji the dog shared a bubble bath with Jane Seymour. Despite the obvious undertones, it was innocent enough because the movie never so much as hinted at anything resembling beastiality. One shudders to consider what a remake would look like today.

Now we need to add child porn to the list of things that are entering the mainstream with the release this year of two movies featuring sex scenes with underage teenagers. FoxNews.com reports the movie Towelhead features an 18 year old actress portraying a 13 year old girl who "experiences her sexual awakening on screen". If you think that's bad, consider the movie Hounddog in which a 12 year old actress portrays a 9 year old who is raped. Whether it's a depiction of an underage girl or the real deal, it's a gross sexualization of young girls. This is not the first time, Bastard Out of Carolina, and Lolita being notable examples, but these new films seem to have thrown innuendo out in favor of more screen time.

Of course, young girls have been sexualized by the fashion world for years. I don't know how a young boy in junior high can concentrate on his studies the way most girls dress these days. But Hollywood has a unique bullhorn for making obscure lifestyles appear mainstream. And young girls that age may dress the part, but the vast majority are still innocent and should not be portrayed as sexual objects for lust or abuse.

I am glad that the Concerned Women for America are speaking out. I just hope we can all fight to push the camel back out from whence it came.