Hollywood in driver's seat of depravity

The Hollywood/Showbiz Legion of Indecency again demonstrated its addiction to obscenity and contempt for morality at the recent Academy Awards ceremony. Host Jimmy Kimmel called a child actor, supposedly a 9-year-old, an offensive name. It was a comic bit. Yet, nevertheless, the depraved comic talk-show host scandalized and debased the boy and other children in attendance - while the other "Academy adults" laughed and applauded.

The use of children as props and delivery systems for adult obscenities and turpitude is beyond deplorable. As a culture, we've devolved and plumbed unimaginable depths of entertainment depravity with - Hollywood in the driver's seat. We're through a dark "looking glass" in a self-fashioned, hellish landscape.

There was a Russel Crowe, Ryan Gosling 2016 film, "The Nice Guys." It was an action-comedy. It featured two children. One, an underage girl, played Gosling's daughter who berates and "F-bombs" her father. The other, an underage boy, solicits Crowe and Gosling's characters for homosexual sex - propositioning them, utilizing obscenities, to pay him to see his genitals.

That's entertainment? Their words and behavior were scripted and directed by (and acted with) adults.

The sleaziest, most scurrilous elements among us are preying upon our children. They practice their particular pedophilia under the banner of "art." It's surprising that they vilify and not celebrate Harvey Weinstein, a "patron saint" of showbiz debauchery.

Jesus (King James, Matthew 18:6) admonished: But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

Wonder how long Kimmel and cohorts can hold their breath? Pandemonium, consult Milton's Paradise Lost, exists. The demons gather annually to celebrate themselves with gold statues.

Les Lopinot

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