Comments about ‘Porn found in edited-movie shop, owner arrested, accused of having sex with minor’

How ironic that a person who claims to be for purity and family values is really a sick person. People who often protest against sin are often the ones who need watching.

The article says Thompson was arrested for soliciting sex from a minor. Later the article says, "The girl told her mother SHE and a friend solicited sexual favors from two men".

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?

You gotta love this ... *grins* Watching the rightious flame and go down is one the good things about living in Utah.

I have always wondered why those that speak out loudest about pornography seem to be those who cannot control their demons.

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...

Could it be possible that years of editing out the "bad stuff" corrupted him? Good intentions, but with regular exposure to lewd material, may have twisted his mind. It's too bad.

I love stories like this. I love it when the ones who claim to be so moral and holier than thou get brought down to the same level as teh rest of us sinners.

So does editing movies change the lives of those who work in the buisness?

I agree with Fred. It seems to me that those with the most problems tend to denounce those very problems the most vigorously. It doesn't come as a shock to learn that Thompson was arrested for soliciting sex from a minor since he has shown a desire for clean films that goes to the extreme. If someone needs to edit out a few minor scenes that are sexual in nature then they are probably the people we want to watch out for especially when it comes to their children. A R-rated film isn't inherently damaging to those who watch it but it's very dangerous for these depraved individuals. The next time someone tells you that they NEVER, with emphasis on NEVER, watch R-rated movies please watch them closely because they are of the same character as Thompson. We should beware the child molesters, rapists, sexual sadists, etc who never watch R-rated movies.

Well, what he did was wrong. I always wonder about reversing the tables though, ya know, if it were an adult female paying young boys to do "favors", how would the community and courts react? I'm guessing the punishments would be less harsh all the way around.

Was an avowed BYU fan as well.

You guys crowing over this man's failure are pathetic. It's true enough that hypocrites are contemptible -- but why take such pleasure in it? Is it because you desperately want to be confirmed in your conviction that no man can be expected to behave better than an alley cat, and so why even try?

is that bad that this made me laugh?

Just another chapter in the reddest and most hypocritical state.

I think that he just planned on removing those "inappropriate" parts of his life film when he steps up at the great and dreadful day.

RE: Who solicited? Being a prostitute is just as illegal as paying for one. I'm sure she isn't off the hook.

FRED,

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.

Perhaps editing could make you look at porn or something like that. I think the willingness to perform that act is a sign he was sick. it would have happened regardless of what he did

Just because he edited the movies for families that don't want to see violence, sex, etc, doesn't mean he stands for purity and righteousness. He ran a business. He earned money for doing a service for people. The fact that his business was an edited movie store is irrelevant.

Was he claiming to be holy or moral?? Wasn't he just running a business that catered to a community that might prefer edited movies. You certainly can do that without being holy or moral and do it without claming to be either.

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.

Thomas, I agree with you about the "crowing"...but you have to agree that often times the people who set themselves up as the "moral police" are the ones whose morals NEED policing! So who is the hypocrite here?????

Selling edited movies is, from what I understand, illegal. Soliciting sexual favors from minors is also illegal (I think). How is it that breaking one of the laws makes him a martyr for morality and the other one a horrible person?

Isn't picking and choosing the rules we choose to follow awesome?