Need your help - Big Love, we are offended!

[Hemidakota]

Originally Posted by Heather

I'm sure everyone has heard that the next episode of Big Love, an HBO show produced by Tom Hanks, will be showing their own depiction of sacred LDS Temple ceremonies. There is an email circulating to threaten to or to drop subscriptions to HBO. I know many people who are offended by this who don't subscribe to HBO and those who feel that such threats and actions still won't make our voices heard.

Well here is something that you can do to help and something that will make a difference. Please go to Digg, create and account, and "Digg" this story - Digg - HBO's Big Love becomes the latest to attack & offend Mormons which is the LDS Newsroom's response to the Big Love episode. By getting a high number of Diggs (thousands), your voice will be heard by hundreds of thousands of people. Every time someone searches for Big Love, this story will be what they will find. It will only take you two minutes to support the Church's response to this publicity dilemma and make a difference.

Digg it! - Digg - HBO's Big Love becomes the latest to attack & offend Mormons

Please forward this on through email.

We are terminating HBO...it it for best since there is not much on after the roaches come out to play around 10:00PM.

[Heather]

I want to make sure you understand that the point of highlighting the page in the LDS Newsroom is so when people who are already searching for information on Big Love will come across the Church's response, rather than the blog responses I've read from exmormons who post "I'm definitely tuning in." Digg is so full of anti-mormon stories, to actually have something positive about the Church in there high rank is quite a challenge and feat. Is something like this going to throw it in the face of those who aren't looking for it like the nightly news? No, this is a response directly to those who are already looking for it.

[Maureen]

If you remember, Tom Hanks is the guy who portrayed a 13-year-old boy fornicating with a 27-year-old woman in a popular major motion picture comedy.

This is such a silly statement. BIG was an extremely likeable, funny movie. Tom Hank's character may have had the mind of a 13 year old boy but he had the appearance of an adult man, so your description is deceiving. As for BIG LOVE, I am a watcher and I love the show. I love the characters, their backgrounds, their goodness, their deceitfulness, their humanity. Anything that involves the Mormon-ness of the show is well done. The characters are proud of their religion(s) and culture(s) whether they are on the polygamist side or the non-polygamist side. And the actors portraying these characters do an excellent job. I would think it best not to judge prematurely until the episode has aired. I will be making my judgements about the episode after I've watched it.

[pushka]

I enjoy the show too, for the same reasons Maureen listed, I hope that the 2nd series is going to air over here in the UK, as the 1st one did, I haven't seen any publicity for it over here yet tho

[Vort]

Originally Posted by Maureen

This is such a silly statement.

Why? It's true.

BIG was an extremely likeable, funny movie.

So was Debbie Does Dallas, I understand. I'm sure that Satan himself is a polite, well-spoken, and good-looking man. Quite likeable and funny.

Tom Hank's character may have had the mind of a 13 year old boy but he had the appearance of an adult man, so your description is deceiving.

No, my description is spot-on. The whole point of the movie was that Tom Hanks WAS a thirteen-year-old boy who wakes up one day to find himself in a 35-year-old form. He still thought and acted just like a 13-year-old boy. When his character fornicated with a 27-year-old woman, the whole point was that it wasn't really a 35-year-old man who was fornicating, it was a 13-year-old boy.

As for BIG LOVE, I am a watcher and I love the show. I love the characters, their backgrounds, their goodness, their deceivefulness, their humanity.

Given your love of Tom Hanks and his movie above, I am not surprised.

[Maya]

You guys know what is the problem of the true church of Jesus Christ? .... they never can agree on something, except if the Profet tells them to... and sometimes not even then... just like in Jesus time and before... havent we learned anything?

I digged it as a new member anyway I got it trough I think... I sent it to many friends in Scandinavia... It really stinks if they dont count. I dont think many here has the Digg it from before.

[Maureen]

So was Debbie Does Dallas, I understand.

Oh my goodness - I think you've gone crazy Vort. You are comparing a pornographic movie to a PG rated movie. What have you been smoking?

[Vort]

Originally Posted by Maureen

Oh my goodness - I think you've gone crazy Vort. You are comparing a pornographic movie to a PG rated movie. What have you been smoking?

Its rating is irrelevant. It is spiritual pornography: A portrayal of a 13-year-old boy fornicating with an adult woman. That's what the movie is about, Maureen. No amount of rationalizing on your part will change that fundamental fact. And that sounds pornographic to me.

More to the point, this is who and what Tom Hanks is, so we shouldn't be surprised that he also chooses to prostitute things sacred to Mormons.

[Maureen]

A portrayal of a 13-year-old boy fornicating with an adult woman. That's what the movie is about, Maureen.

That is NOT what the movie is about, that part takes up a miniscule portion of the movie. Get your mind out of the gutter.

[Vort]

Originally Posted by Maureen

That is NOT what the movie is about, that part takes up a miniscule portion of the movie. Get your mind out of the gutter.

Of course it's what the movie is about, Maureen. Denial isn't just an African river.

And it's not very charitable of you to accuse me of needing to get my "mind out of the gutter" just because I recognize and name a movie for the pornography it is.