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HBO's three-time Emmy winning series Big Love will begin it's fourth season with a surprising new gay story line. The show focusing around a Mormon polygamist family living in Utah, plans to delve into a same-sex relationship between two male characters that will likely ignite controversy within the Mormon church.
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Alby (Matt Ross) the show's closeted vilian and son of the leader of the shows fictional polygamist group, will be given a love interest this season named Dale (Benjamin Koldyke). According to Entertainment Weekly, both Alby and Dale have been involved in “ex-gay” therapy for some time with no success.
“There’s a provocative nature to what we’re doing,” executive producer Will Olsen declared. ““It’s more than just the Mormon culture. We’re highlighting certain aspects of the church’s relationship with its gay members that I think, as the story unfolds, is going to cause no [small] amount of controversy."
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A columnist for the Website MormonTimes.com, Joel Campbell, has accused Big Love of using such controversial plots as a way to “stick it to” the Mormon Church Of Latter Day Saints. He says, “Once again it sounds like Olsen and company are ready to blur the lines between a fictional fundamentalist group and what is practiced in the LDS Church. Bottom line: Producers are using their artistic license as a screen for misinformation and bigotry.”
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Oh, is that the height of hypocrisy? Someone from the Mormon church complaining that there is misinformation and bigotry against them?
That's as ludicrous as a bishop from that church, saying in a speech last summer that their 'persecution' from gays and the secular government is a fight similar to that of blacks during the Civil Rights movement.
And that big compound in TX and those 476 children who were taken away by protective services, nor the exclusion of blacks from the Mormon church until 1979 and it's higher offices to this day, nor the phenom of "The Lost Boys" weren't even a fictional tv show.
Dirty laundry seen through a glass house...
Well, LOL, the LDS shouldn't be so upset, the show is on a premium, channel, so no one MUST watch it if it offends their delicate sensibilities- AND let's face it, ALL sterotypes have some basis in truth- LDS'S, RCs and fundies- FOR THE LOVE OF GOD let's learn to be able to laugh at ourselves and our own foibles. The church (ALL CHristian churches) REALLY need to get a sense of humor- if you don't already have one PRAY FOR IT! ;>)
Regan, I agree wholeheartedly with your post! Hypocrisy regins supreme in most of the churches these days, and I don't suppose the Mormons have any edge over the Roman Catholic church,or most fundamentalist churches when it comes to that hypocrisy- I find it most odd, but then what more can you say about "churches" who scream persecution, while in fact, THEY are the ones doing the persecuting. As my wise Mom says, "It all depends on whose ox is being gored!"
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