Fundies go ballistic over 'Brokeback Mountain'

Found this at AmericaBlog:

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038874.cfm

Reviewers Call 'Brokeback Mountain' Twisted
by Pete Winn, associate editor

Gay love story carries a high "ick" factor.

"Brokeback Mountain" is a cowboy movie where neither of the leading men gets the girl — they get each other.

The "gay Western love story" that will premiere Friday has won film-festival awards and is drawing lots of media attention. Reviewers have called it a "landmark."

Focus on the Family Action Analyst Caleb H. Price said Hollywood is doing all it can to get people interested in a film that they know most moviegoers will not want to see. Set in Wyoming in the 1960s, the R-rated love affair between two cowboys culminates in explicit gay sexuality.

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"If Christians protest too loudly," he said, "they can end up making the mistake of calling attention to a movie that otherwise may not do very well at the box office."

to fan the fires of fundy psychosis.

who are they thinking about when they make love to their new partner in a hetero relationship, and does that partner suspect?

There was a guy who worked for Focus on the Family and he was caught in a gay bar in DC. He claimed he didn't know he was in one but give me a break. Ten minutes in a gay bar and you know you're in a gay bar.

:)

I had to ask one of the people I was with why there were only men on the tv screens.

a friend of mine on a business trip wandered from his hotel to a bar - a guy outside looked him up and down and said, you do know this is a gay bar? He shook his hand and said THANK YOU SIR! and headed to another bar, LOL

..song "I'm back in the Saddle again" :P

It seems like a well done movie.

thingy. I'm sure it will delight them. Gay and a prostitute all in one.... not that I find either offensive, but then I read what their Jesus said.

and he had no problem with prostitutes. Hell, the only people who ever pissed him off were those who attempted to take financial advantage of the poor (that would be today's Republican party).

would be tapping his line... the CIA spiriting him off to someplace that "knows how to deal" with such a man.

Last Temptation of Christ several years ago? I had no real interest in seeing the movie; my tastes tend more toward light romantic comedies. However, when the pastor of the church I attended said from the pulpit, on a Sunday morning, that congregation members should not go see that movie, that's when I decided I had to go. Several of us in the singles group went to go see it together.

Same thing here. This movie is not on my "must see" list, unless the fundies start making too big a deal out of it.

These people need to stop dictating other people's lives and spreading their hate. They think because they claim religion for why they hate someone makes them any better?

and thus, now a leading Oscar contender:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1983797

Let the culture wars begin!

They need to get over it and stop hiding behind my religion to justify their bigotry! Someone should look and see if he's really a doctor or not.

Hell, I'd even help with the clean-up :P

I am SO EXCITED to see this movie. Jake and Heath.. SINGE!!!!!!

sorry.. can't help it

I am a big fan of Larry McMurtry and have read every single thing he has written, and all the films he's been involved with. I love them all!

Can't wait!!!!

And I'm a sucker for romance no matter what. *sigh* And I've heard they're really straight so it would be interesting to see how well they do this film. I'll probably wait until HBO probably since I'm not a theatre person. I haven't been to a movie theatre in a long time.

partner Diana Ossana wrote the screenplay. ;)

as soon as the fundies start blasting it and the fundies know it! LOL! They're damned if they do and damned if they don't! It's a complete no win for the fundies.

That is how I eventually found DU. I has basically written off the "mainstream" media and thought there was nothing of a liberal slant out there. Then, I heard about Bill O'Reilly's lawsuit against Al Franken for his "Lying Liars..." book. And, since I hate that sort of thing, I went out and immediately bought the book. It really opened my eyes!

Then, I went online & found oreillysucks.com and the site owner (stewert) directed me here a little over 2 years & 10,000+ posts ago.

:hi:

There are, in fact, gay people. Everywhere. All the time. Whether you like it or not.

No matter how much of this :cry: or this :mad: you do, there will STILL be gay people.

Some of them even manage to fall in love and have happy lives, despite your best efforts. And I'm sure that some of them have been and are, in fact, cowboys.

However, since you seem unable and unwilling to accept this, feel free not to see the movie. Keep your ball and stay at home. :argh: why is that so difficult for you? I'm offended into a bright red fury by a LOT of your entertainment, and I WATCH SOMETHING ELSE INSTEAD.

Pretty much cemented my view.. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT!!!!

Cowboys running out of things to do and exploring their sexuality?

One of their better episodes.

as well.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106834/

Uh huh.

there, problem solved. Go back to your Veggie Tales.

I don't like some movies so am I going to go out and whine and call for a boycott? :eyes:

God I love seeing these faux christians bellyache.

Gay cowboys? Delicious.

No great loss there.

I plan to see BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and if Jim Dobson doesn't like it, he can ram an oak tree up his arrogant patoot.

Roots first.

...of course, strictly to "monitor the culture war", to "know thy enemy" uh-huh- suuure.

Republicans have loved their homoerotic cowboys for years- this is no different.

Was gay? He lived with Cary Grant n the 30s and 40s. I'll bet the fundies don't know anything about that!

http://www.queerday.com/2005/jan/11/cary_grants_secret_gay_marriage_to_randolph_scott.html

I am a straight woman and I want to see the movie. It looks really good! There was one scene in the trailer where Jake Gyllenhal is driving away and looking at Heath Ledger in the side view mirror; I don't know, but it was pretty stirring.

Fundies hate all kinds of love. Poor things must have been neglected as children. They are so full of hate that they can't experience joy. They should be pitied. Truly pitied.

I'm going to go see it with a couple of gay friends; I saw the trailer when I was at Capote....I like the leads, the cinematography looked outstanding and the story intriguing.

He'd be PERFECT for a role as an All-American Cowboy. "Hey, Pilgrim, I see you're wearing chaps and nothing else ..." "Is that your saddlehorn or are you just happy to see me?"

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