Today I am appalled.  HBO, Time Warner, and Tom Hanks' Big Love series will be recreating a LDS excommunication, as well as Temple ceremonies, with the help of an ex-Mormon "consultant" in its Sunday, March 15th episode.  This is outrageous considering the sacred and private nature of these ceremonies and ordinances.  Please take a minute to send a message to HBO and Time Warner to let them know that this is unacceptable.  To make this really, really easy for you, I've compiled here all the links and addresses you will need.  Just click, express dissent, and submit.  Then write, lick, stamp, and send.

Thanks everyone!

Liz

P.S. Please send this right along to your friends, too.

Big Love Sunday, 9/8c, HBO

GOIN’ TO THE CHAPEL

It’s one thing for Bill and Barb Henrickson’s inner

circle to know they have two other wives at

home
but letting the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints in on the secret? That’s a whole

other story. “It’s almost a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

policy,” says executive producer Mark Olsen. Their

under-the-radar status will change this week when

Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn) faces the consequences

of breaking the rules and is called to an excommunication

hearing. “We researched it out the

wazoo,” says Olsen, who along with executive producer

Will Scheffer hired an ex-Mormon consultant

to help the set and wardrobe designers re-create

even the tiniest details. “We go into the endowment

room and the celestial room [areas of the

temple], and we present what happens in those

ceremonies. That’s never been shown on television

before,” says Olsen. Adds Scheffer, “But it’s

not for shock value. It’s really a very important

part of the story.” The decision won’t be without

controversy: According to a church insider, “If they

are in fact trying to emulate those rooms in any

way, that would be extremely offensive. The general

public is not allowed in our temples yet. Not

even all Mormons are. We consider them very, very

sacred.” Heaven help us. —Rochell D. Thomas

From TV Guide (type in page 48)

Write to HBO!

http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=Big%20Love&questiontype=biglove 

Write to Time Warner!  (Unfortunately, TW only has snail mail options, so whip out those envelopes and stamps and get them sent off no later than THIS Monday!!)

Time Warner Inc.

One Time Warner Center

New York, NY10019-8016

212.484.8000

Edward Adler

Executive Vice President 

Corporate Communications

Time Warner Inc.

One Time Warner Center

New York, NY 10019-8016

Keith Cocozza

Vice President 

Corporate Communications

Time Warner Inc.

One Time Warner Center

New York, NY 10019-8016