USCCB reclassifies gay Western "Brokeback Mountain" after complaints

Catholic News Agency ^ | December 16, 2005

[manwiththehands]

"Fudgepack Mountain" takes another hit.

[xzins]

the universal themes of love and loss ring true

That's a whole wagonload of horseshi_.

Homosexuality is a deathstyle, not a lifestyle. Therefore, there's no way it's about 'love.'

[bulldozer]

"Brokeback Mountain," the story of two cowboys grappling with their love for each other, was the top Golden Globe contender Tuesday, picking up seven nominations, including best dramatic picture. CNN.com

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[Generic_Login_1787]

(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.)

It's not meant to be overlooked, it's meant to be dealt with. What you take away from the movie doesn't have to be what the moviemakers wanted you to take away.

If a movie is honest, it will show the cost of repugnant behavior, even if the repugnant protagonist isn't the one who pays. It sounds like that's the case in "Brokeback Mountain."

[Dajjal]

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Wish I could take the credit for that one, but another freeper coined it "Raw Hind."

[Ozone34]

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8287

[gathersnomoss]

You have no feeeelings you unsensitive cow.

[LK44-40]

What you take away from the movie doesn't have to be what the moviemakers wanted you to take away.

I really don't think we should let this director lead us, like sheeple, into a lot of conversation on something really not that worthy of conversation. Of course, I am taking the bait by participating in this very thread. And it will fill our magazines. Build up to Oscar night. Will be featured all over TV tabloid and soft features on news networks and local stations. I hate letting this crowd set the agenda for the national conversation.

[NYer]

The media are chomping at the bit (pun intended) to elevate this film to Golden Globe and, eventually, Oscar status. It has now been blessed by the Communist News Network.

[Salvation]

Retraction and Reclassification

[little jeremiah]

Love has nothing to do with it, you're right.

[Generic_Login_1787]

Well, I'm with you there.

[reagan_fanatic]

LOL!! That really is a disturbing image, you know.

[Tribune7]

What is a "sheep-hearding cowboy"?

[GOP_Thug_Mom]

Thanks for posting this, NYer. what a load of of garbage! We're getting new bishops all over the country--when are they going to start taking over or dismantling this hi-jacked organization???

[Cinnamon]

while staring at a Krispy Kreme doughnut: "I wish I knew how to quita ya!!" *sniff*.. lmao