Paragraphs about current movies which would have violated the hayes code at one time.

"But I'm a Cheerleader" is a movie about a gay cheerleader whose family has her taken to a camp that "cures" gay teenagers by teaching them how to live within their accepted gender roles in a heterosexual relationship. This film violates the Hayes Production Code by showing a homosexual relationship when the code states "correct standards of life" should be presented and "law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created …

…threaded throughout, as well as promiscuous females, and strippers. The worst part about it all though, from the prospective of someone enforcing the code, is that you are made to see the characters as people, beyond their actions and indiscretions. "No picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience shall never be thrown to the side of crime, wrong-doing, evil or sin."