'September Dawn' oozes biased zeal (lib critic pans film)

The Orange County Register ^ | August 23, 2007 | Craig Outhier

[EveningStar]

...Christopher Cain’s pedantic, made-for-TV-caliber account of Utah’s notorious Mountain Meadows Massacre bullies the audience with extremist hobgoblins and hearsay. The love story is pretty bad, too. Jon Voight stars. Grade: D+...

[EveningStar]

From reading many of this critic's reviews, I've inferred that he's a lib. IIRC, he loved Fahrenheit 9/11 and An Inconvenient Truth.

Of course, he could be a Mormon. ;)

[puroresu]

#####IIRC, he loved Fahrenheit 9/11 and An Inconvenient Truth.#####

And he’s capable of composing a coherent sentence?

[L98Fiero]

I saw an interview with Voit on O’Reilly. He left no doubt about his support for the war. He gets it.

[EveningStar]

I know about that.

[BJClinton]

Did you know that the Mountain Meadows tragedy happened on Sept. 11, that Mormons allegedly endorsed honor killings and that Young once described himself as a "second Mohammed"?

Are any of these true?

[EveningStar]

The September 11 part for sure. I don’t know about the rest.

[gondramB]

Its hard to believe the genius behind “The Next Karate Kid” would make a bad made for TV movie /s “)

[Ditter]

We just came from seeing September Dawn. Romney just might as well quit now and save some money.

[EveningStar]

Please ‘splain.

September Dawn is fictional.

[Ditter]

We have read the historical account of the massacre and seen the Hollywood movie, have you done both? When you have, get back to me and we will talk.

[livius]

Yes, they’re all true. There are a number of good histories of the Mormons out there that attest to all these things.

However, the Mormons have changed over the years, and I believe in recent years have specifically renounced some of these beliefs. I know they took the part about being disemboweled if they revealed the “Temple mysteries” out of their oath in the 1990s.

Their presiding honchos have visions or dreams, and this is how they change their doctrine. That was how they changed the part about blacks not being admitted to the priesthood like all other male Mormons; their president had a dream that told him to change it.

[livius]

I don’t like Romney for many other reasons, but I really don’t think this will affect him. Mainstream Mormons don’t act like this anymore, and Romney certainly had nothing to do the Mountain Meadows massacre! I think most people can tell the two apart.

That said, if you want to read an eye-opening book, read “Under the Skies of Heaven,” an account of a murder by some of the Mormon polygamist “fundamentalists” who still live in Utah. The thing that I found most disturbing, aside from their vicious crime, is the way the state of Utah semi-tolerates these little groups of people, who take over entire towns or sections of the state and live heavily off of welfare fraud (for the many children of their many wives).

[Ditter]

I would not hold Romneys religion against him either. There have been scandals in every religious sect and I don’t hold that against everyone in that particular religion. I am trying to do that with the followers of Allah but I am have a little trouble there.

I have stated here several times that I would vote for the Republican nominee, Romney would have my vote.