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PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:46 pm 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/national/02spear.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

So this movie is being released and the lead character is gay. Of course people are getting upset because the guy plays an missionary. My favorite line in the article:

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Many evangelicals are concerned that young people inspired by the movie will look up Mr. Allen on the Web and "get exposed to his views on homosexuality, and that would cause some of them to question Biblical views of homosexuality and every other sin," said Will Hall, executive director of BPNews.net, the news service of the Southern Baptist Convention


And we would hate that right? Because it's wrong to question and become educated right? Sheesh.

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two things I'm suprised at:

1. For the film, they didn't keep the title of the novel Through The Gates Of Splendor which has sold millions of copies over the years and is considered one of the ultimate "Christian" adventure books among fundamentalists.

2. That Focus On The Family reacted relatively reasonably. Dobson and company haven't been very reasonable in about a decade.


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Kevin T. Bauder, president of Central Baptist Seminary in Minneapolis Wrote:
"Granted, we must not overreact. And it would probably be an overreaction to firebomb these men's houses. ..."


uh, probably an overreaction? Nuts is the right term for them.

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Like burning the Danish and Norwegian embassies...over a cartoon! Someone remind me why it would be so wrong to nuke Syria, cuz I plumb forgot.


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Stop ripping the Baptists. Has anyone researched what the Pentecostals have to say?

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Stop ripping the Baptists. Has anyone researched what the Pentecostals have to say?


Fucking longhairs…

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Stop Breathin' Wrote:
Stop ripping the Baptists. Has anyone researched what the Pentecostals have to say?


Fucking longhairs…


Who will play with your parcel of snakes before firebombing the theaters.

Which brings me to Brokeback Mountain. Haven't seen it. Don't plan to. Would it be getting all these Oscar nominations if the cowboys weren't gay? Hollywood loves some liberal PC.

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yes it would. Even if it was a hetero story it would be heart wrenching.

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yes it would. Even if it was a hetero story it would be heart wrenching.


fair enough. Hollywood still loves some liberal PC.

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yes it would. Even if it was a hetero story it would be heart wrenching.


fair enough. Hollywood still loves some liberal PC.


even up.

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Flying Rabbit Wrote:
yes it would. Even if it was a hetero story it would be heart wrenching.


I call bullshit on that one. It's an "important" film because of it's subject matter, not because of it's artistic content. Replace one of the characters with a woman it's a long, boring, and trite love story of someone wanting someone they can't have which we've seen a million times. Granted, Heath Ledger is good in the film but it wouldn't be on the radar if it wasn't breaking stereotypes with gay cowboys. This is a perfect example of group think about a message rather than the quality of a film.


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Replace one of the characters with a woman it's a long, boring, and trite love story of someone wanting someone they can't have which we've seen a million times.
You're saying there isn't a market for this? I call bullshit on your bullshit.

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there are about 8,000 gay movies every year.
there had to be something about this one that made people take notice.

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it's about gay cowboys...if that didn't make people take notice I don't know what will.
The last frontier: Marlboro Man meets John Wayne in the ass!

There is nothing more sacred to Americans than our iconic Cowboy. Manly, Macho and now gay.

To the conservatives this is another nail in the coffin of America's supremacy, one of the things that has defined America both from within and from without.

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frosted Wrote:
two things I'm suprised at:

1. For the film, they didn't keep the title of the novel Through The Gates Of Splendor which has sold millions of copies over the years and is considered one of the ultimate "Christian" adventure books among fundamentalists.


Wasn't sure if you knew, there's already a Through The Gates Of Splendor that came out a little over a year ago I think. It was done more so in documentary form though.


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chowgurt Wrote:
There is nothing more sacred to Americans than our iconic Cowboy. Manly, Macho and now gay.


Oh come on, they've been gay for years. I used to live down the street from a gay bar and cowboys used to mosey up and down the streets at all hours of the night.

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I should have prefaced that with:
To the American public...

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agreed :)

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jewels santana Wrote:
there are about 8,000 gay movies every year.
there had to be something about this one that made people take notice.


Yeah, big money backing and high profile stars.

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boy, we just can't stop talking about brokeback mountain and gay cowboys taking it up the ass and how much the movie industry is shoving the gay agenda down our throats.

cuz you'd think if it really was just some movie you had no interest in seeing that after a few comments we'd never hear about it again.

very telling gentlemen.


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Flying Rabbit Wrote:
Oh come on, they've been gay for years. I used to live down the street from a gay bar and cowboys used to mosey up and down the streets at all hours of the night.


Just because you wear leather chaps with nothing underneath in no way implies that you are a cowboy. :)


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I love how gay people always try to pin a "closet" tag on anyone when they mention something that's gay. It's really funny. And gay.

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ayah Wrote:
i said it before and i'll say it again.
you are the biggest homophobe on this board.


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