USCCB reclassifies gay Western "Brokeback Mountain" after complaints

Catholic News Agency ^ | December 16, 2005

[LK44-40]

They are "sheep-herding cowboys"?

The more I hear about this film, the more offended I get. I can almost imagine how lonely cowboys with only steers and each other for companionship might make some bad decisions. But surrounded by sheep? It is just so unnecessary....;-)

[Oberon]

...ask a rancher what he thinks about land that has had sheep on it.

And that matterssssssssss....why?

[gotribe]

I've never seen a sheep herding cowboy, just Basque shepherds.

[Wristpin]

Raw Hind!

LMAO!!

[humblegunner]

here we go again with these "cowboys" who do nothing more than heard sheep.

Heard them do what exactly?

Just goes to show you that being a cowboy equates to nothing more than wearing the right fashion accessories.

I've been having cowboy training since I was 5 and you can't tell by looking.

I think you are repressing some desire to be a gay cowboy.

[dagoofyfoot]

Oh man, That one had me rolling!


Too funny!

[Generic_Login_1787]

Pardon me, have any of you actually seen this movie? Fine, you object to homosexuality -- so do I. But a movie's subject matter has little to do with how good a movie it is. If that were the case, then there would have never been a bad movie made about God or a good one about the devil.

Could it be that a movie sympathizes with people you wouldn't let babysit your kids -- and still succeeds as a movie?

"American Beauty": Disgusting, soul-sick and scornful of normal people. Also a really well-made movie.

[reagan_fanatic]

LOL! Ang Lee may just print that one out and tack it to the ceiling in his bedroom!

[Ole Okie]

What the hell is a sheep herding cowboy?

He's called a "shepherd".

[LK44-40]

Could it be that a movie sympathizes with people you wouldn't let babysit your kids -- and still succeeds as a movie?

No...if it stinks at its core, it's a stinker.

(I find distasteful the need ordinary smucks -- you and me, I presume -- often have to stand above-it-all, learned and sophisticated in our resposes to movies (film, i.e.), so worldly as to be able to overlook, in the higher service of "art," what is repugnant. Spare me.)

[rzeznikj at stout]

ROFLMAO!!!

[Gordongekko909]

You take offense at being asked if you watch South Park?

[Gordongekko909]

I don't really care. I'm just taking the opportunity to tell a bunch of gay jokes.

[wardaddy]

but obviously your dad and gandpa were for sure not pudding eating cakeboys

[Revolting cat!]

I hear that to see this movie you have to enter the theaters through the back door!

[altura]

My heroes have always been Cowboys.

[Wristpin]

"The Rump Riders"

[B-Chan]

"Backdoor Mountin'"

[Revolting cat!]

I know one macho cowboy who's pirouetting in his grave now!

[LK44-40]

I don't really care. I'm just taking the opportunity to tell a bunch of gay jokes.

You crack me up....no bun intended ;-)