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Porn found in edited-movie shop, owner arrested, accused of having sex with minor
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Well, which was it?
Either way, it's illegal, but I think it's important to know what really happend. And if the girl was soliciting men, shouldn't there be some punishment for her as well?
Ted Haggard in Colorado speaks out loudly against gays and then gets caught having gay sex with a male prostitute.
Now we have clean movie guy getting arrested for child sexual misconduct. I recognoze that he is innocent until proven guilty, but it sounds pretty bad when the girl described his store.
People loved their edited movies, but I seem to recall that Utah County has one of the highest rates of Pay Per View porn rentals in the country. Rent clean stuff for public display and then get down and dirty when the neighbors leave.
Brings to mind the old addage: Me thinks thou doth protest to much...
RE: Who solicited? Being a prostitute is just as illegal as paying for one. I'm sure she isn't off the hook.
I agree with your point about Haggard and the circus he created....BUUUUUUUT
That's a pretty outlandish claim to make about Pay Per View porn rental in Utah County. Do you have any data (ie: a verifiable source you can actually cite) with which you can back your accusation?
I don't live in Utah County so I don't know what the porn scene is like there these days but making a claim like that is almost as non-data-esque as when people from the SLC gay community claim Sugarhouse has the highest per-capita population of homosexuals in the country, maybe even the world, maybe even the entire universe! Ha.
Get your facts, then report them - horse before the cart, my friend. Then these message boards become useful rather than tools for spreading rumors and proliferating urban legends.
Sad story but I'm not so sure it has much to do with someone claiming to be righteous and then falling. All I know about the guy is he sold edited movies. Could have been an atheist for all I know.
Some comments are implying that anyone who tries to be good and set a good example is somehow insincere by that very act.
As a society we should applaud anyone who sincerely tries to be good and show good acts even if sometimes in life they fail to succeed. Was this guy sincere?? I have no idea but let's not make it politically uncorrect for those that are sincere to outwardly try to show their best face possible.
Isn't picking and choosing the rules we choose to follow awesome?
You are a sick as video-store-dude.
You people who are relishing and basking in the joy of this CRIME are just as twisted.
I don't see alot of integrity in this one.
"Who Solicited?"'s comments are irrelevant -- consent is no defense to having sex with a minor, so how the girls behaved has no bearing on Mr. Thompson's guilt.
I believe we in the local culture need to reevaluate our attitudes about pornography and sexual repression. Strong and often unnecessary feelings of guilt can often lead people to take drastic measures. I don't mean to suggest porn is a good thing, but most people who've had a problem with it that I know have overcome it by simply forgetting, by not caring about it.
"Go and sin no more" carries with it, I believe, a charge to quit being preoccupied with sin. Pre-edited movies reflect a preoccupation with sin not seen since the invention of the chastity belt.
Some pretty sick people have become priests; but that doesn't make priests sick people. Despite the hilarious irony, this guy's crime can't be imputed to a culture that wants to avoid smut in movies.
Lauri | 12:24 p.m. Jan. 25, 2008
You gotta love this ... *grins* Watching the rightious flame and go down is one the good things about living in Utah.
Why is this a good thing about Utah. Do you enjoy watching people fall to your level? That's a pretty sad statement about you.
Answer: No. For policy reasons the law places all of the blame for sexual relations involving underage minors and adults on the adult.
It does not matter if she initiated the action. By law, all of the blame goes to him - none goes to her.
Why do we have to generalize so much? Can't this guys be a sick'o without us automatically having to make the leap of logic to... EVERYONE who fights pornography is a pervert?
And why does this one idiot's behavior automatically become an indictment of Mormons and Utahns? This guy is a pervert. But that doesn't mean you now can assume all Utahns are perverts!
When are we going to learn that we are all individuals? In some ways different, in some ways the same? There are sick Mormons... But that doesn't mean all Mormons are sick. There are perverted people who arn't Mormon... But that doesn't mean we can say, "Joy Oh Joy, now this proves that all non-mormons are perverts.
And yes, it is sad that this story makes some people laugh.
(1) Purposes of the FLIX CLUB Store and its Subsidiaries:
(a) To sell wholesome, edited movies to the public.
(b) To engage in raunchy behavior with the customer(s) who are under the age of seventeen (NOTE: in order that the public may rejoice in the downfall of the FLIX CLUB owner, employees, and subsidiaries).
So shut up.
I ask because the article appeared to be non-sense to me and I wanted to see if it was a mistake or clarify the story (pardon me for thinking figuring out the truth is important in this case).
Read the WHOLE article and see if it doesn't leave you scratching your head about what really happend. Read my WHOLE post and see if your comment on it made any sense.
As Shakespeare wrote in one of his plays, "Me thinks he protests to loudly!"
Go figure!
Furthermore, those who are obsessed with purchasing clean films have serious issues. That is unless the purchase is so that the family can watch a wholesome movie. But when you are talking about adults with no children involved then their preoccupation is indicative of a serious issue.
I can understand the desire of parents not to have their children watch such movies but there are a lot of PG and PG-13 movies as well as R-rated movies that are appropriate for children depending on their ages. Let's take the BYU students who want to sue Gold's Gym for a provocative aerobics class. The word sick comes to mind. Aerobics?
I'd much rather see an R rated movie than see reports of child sexual abuse.
Is anybody really surprised?
Answer: Neither, they're both doing wrong in the end.
When righteous people profess to do right and then actually do right, they are holier than the other two options; they just shouldn't say so.
All three groups know that sex with a minor is wrong. The difference: the righteous person (Not in the news) doesn't have a problem with that, because they do right for right's sake; the hypocrite (Newsworthy) wants to be seen as doing right, but chooses to do wrong, then regrets it; the justifier, only does right in this instance because they don't want to cross the line of the law; but they want everyone to understand why they just aren't strong enough to choose right, unless it is as severe as breaking the law, of course.
No one is perfect. Rather, all of us have had part in all three categories: when we are happiest we don't judge others against ourselves, aren't hypocrites, and don't justify wrongdoing. We're content.
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