Posted on 04/15/2002 7:35:35 AM PDT by mondonico
No, it would have been as impossible to miss that as if someone was standing on a soapbox screaming it at the top of their lungs. The heterosexual marriage left the Chris Cooper character's wife virtually catatonic and his son messed up. It is the intrinsic nature of marriage, to the filmmaker. Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening's marriage was only marginally better. Bening's character (a one dimensional stereotype that was a soporific cliche 15 years ago)was uptight and neurotic, because that's what a married woman is.
So the young heterosexual couple (the son of the Kevin Spacey character and his girlfriend) were "deeply disturbed and basically mentally"? I didn't think so.
Check again, they were pretty messed up, but less so, because maybe they could reject their parent's lifestyle.
I guess I got a different message than you did. The message that I got was the obvious contrast the (apparent) happiness of the gay couple with the obvious distress and ultimate destructiveness that internalized homophobia can cause.
No, I got that same message you did. Check my earlier post, your statement is basically a paraphrase of what I said. It was a very preachy movie. But the gay=good, straight=sick message was clear.
It's funny that you don't, since that was the main part of the movie. The homophobia angle was definitely part of the movie, but did you think that was the only angle?
This guy was rumored to be, well......"
They complained about seeing two gay men in bed and kissing. That doesn't have the same bland nice-ness as "positive gay character" does it?
The Boy Scouts of America have nothing to fear from gay scout leaders. < sarcasm >
Don't be led astray, Islamic terrorists are not doing God's will!!! I can only hope that these terrorists are called to meet their god soon. When judgement day comes, they are in for a major shock!
You certainly wouldn't want to turn your back on them.
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If you're any of those things, don't fret about being called a "conservative." At least not by conservatives. It won't happen. What you are is a whiny brat who can't commit to ANY ideology, and who convinces herself that she's "open-minded" by vacillating between the two camps. Kinda like David Crock ... er, ... Brock. You aren't opposed to any of the Left's beliefs on PRINCIPLE; your resistance just cost you an invitation to the good parties. Therefore, you simply swell the ranks of moral cowards.
Good point. Some would say fornication outside of marriage is wrong; morally wrong, but I, like, you, believe that the government has no business policing what consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedrooms.
I don't think many people think otherwise. The problem is that in our increasingly socialist, entitlement-based society, people practicing acts morally repugnant to others feel that they are entitled to much more than tolerance (i,e, the right to be left alone). Dissenting protestant sects left England because they wanted tolerance--the right to worship as they pleased. Today's activists want much more--they want to become the Established Church. It's not enough to be left alone--deviants today want the official seal of approval from society, and all the socialist wealth-transfers that entails.
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