Mormon's pissed at HBO's "Big Love"

[Maraya1969]

Personally I hang on ever word of the show. It is a look into the life of one big dysfunctional family with 1 husband and 3 wives.


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Hatch: ‘Big Love’ is ‘just plain trash’

Mormon members of Congress have little regard for the HBO television show “Big Love” but are reluctant to throw their weight behind church efforts to get it yanked off the air.

The show, which follows the life of a polygamous family living in a Salt Lake City suburb, has triggered an e-mail campaign among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) to cancel the show.

Many of the 16 Mormon members of Congress say they haven’t seen the show, and none say they’re ready to call for its removal — but that’s not to say they’re fans either.

The show is “just plain trash,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who said he hasn’t seen the show. “The show’s producers insist ‘Big Love’ isn’t about the LDS Church, but they obviously intend for their viewers to make that connection.


http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/040406.html

[Catch22Dem]

1. It's a good show (n/t)

[bliss_eternal]

2. Well, they'll just have to get over it--

because I gotta' have my Big Love fix. :P

Maraya--feel free to join us in the tvchat area of the forums--I start a thread there every week to discuss the current show developments! :hi:

Here's a link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=267

[Maraya1969]

18. Thanks I just bookmarked it. So many groups here!

[incapsulated]

3. I could see this coming a mile away, lol

Honestly, the show is being KIND to them. Anyway, it makes a very clear distinction between LDS and the polygamists. Maybe if Utah actually imposed the law, this wouldn't be a tv show, there would be nothing to see.

[bliss_eternal]

5. True

it was just a matter of time before they started the back lash.

[seaglass]

19. They are being kind. All one has to do is go to exmormon.org

and find that there is plenty of material if HBO really wanted Mormons to look bad.

From what I can understand, Mormons are not allowed to read or view any material considered anti-Mormon so I'm not surprised that Hatch would pass judgment without seeing it.

I wonder if the same people who have railed against US newspapers that wouldn't publish the controversial Muslim cartoons are the same ones writing emails to get this show (and The Book of Daniel) off the air.

[bliss_eternal]

23. What's exmormon.org?

This is the first I have heard of it. :hi:

[seaglass]

24. It's like a support group for those who have left the Mormon church.

So obviously a lot of bitterness but also info on some of the beliefs and practices.

[bliss_eternal]

34. Are lurkers allowed?

That sounds SO fascinating!!! Part of the reason I'm enjoying Big Love, I'm learning about the practices of a culture I wouldn't be privy to otherwise.

[seaglass]

36. Yes. I'm not a Mormon and never was but I had a good friend

who was a Mormon and I went to the Mormon Temple with him in LA. I always wanted to know the deal behind the "garment." I not only found out but saw a picture. (I don't have a weird underwear fetish, really, it's just that my friend told me about it and then said it was a secret and wouldn't tell me anything more so I was curious:-) )

http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon_shorts.htm

This is a listing by topic.

[bliss_eternal]

37. So cool--

thanks, Hope! This will be so interesting!

[Hestia]

4. It's not a bad show...

and they are correct, it is not about LDS, it is about a branch that has spun off from LDS. It is about a compound (not unlike what has been written about in articles the last couple of years), in which the people live like prairie days. I like it.

[bliss_eternal]

6. Join us in tv chat area

:hi: to discuss the show weekly:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=267

This invitation is for anyone that enjoys the show, or just wants to talk about it!

[newyawker99]

26. Hi Hestia!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Hestia]

29. why thank you n/t

[XOKCowboy]

7. Jon Krakauer's book...

I hate to keep mentioning it but everyone should read JK's book Under The Banner Of Heaven. Same guy that wrote Into Thin Air and Into The Wild. It gives an overview of Mormon history and pays special attention to the polygamists. Very informative and very scary.

[seaglass]

20. I've read all 3,I love Krakauer. Under the Banner was my

least favorite but it was still a good book.

[Erika]

8. My Mormon neighbor is very proud of her polygamous past

Her great grand father had six wives. Four of whom were sisters. As each sister got older, the husband married a younger sister.

My own grandmother was the daughter of a polygamist who had 23 children amongst his wives.

Hatch knows the history of his past but chooses to ignore it. The reason that the Western Mormons vote almost 100% GOP is that they resented the democratic governors saying they must give up polygamy to vote.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. i love the show too....

i don't understand why people just don't simply turn off their televisions, it's not as if there's only 3 channels like when i was a kid.

i also loved the "book of daniel", but thanks to the religious zealots it got pulled as well. if i don't like a show, (eg. scarborough country, situation room, and anything on fox news channel) i simply don't watch, but i'm not gonna go out of my way to get a tv show yanked just because i don't like the content.

[Lautremont]

10. Which mormon?

[Maraya1969]

21. Read the article I posted. Orin Hatch is one

[0007]

22. Good question! The real Mormons, the LDS Mormons or the Jack

Mormons, or the 360 Ward Mormons.

[roguevalley]

11. too bad. its their history and their present. do it in if you don't want

to be a laughing stock. also, I would be more pissed at a mormon soon-to-be missionary choking and sodomizing kids with broomsticks and flashlights than this.

[baldguy]

12. I think "American Idol" is "just plain trash"

Can we take that off the air too? Please?

[bliss_eternal]

35. ...and the show host, obnoxious, little freep-tard that he is

Ryan Seacrest. Bleh. :puke:

[kentuck]

13. Mutt Romney...

I wonder if he thinks it will affect his race? :)

[tulsakatz]

14. I like the show!!

It has a good story and lots of interesting characters. And it's interesting watching the wives and how they relate to each other.

[mduffy31]

15. Come on

There are plenty of references to the fact that they are not part of the LDS. It is a great show, and does that suprise anyone? HBO has been putting out the best stuff on TV for sometime now becasue they can tackle issues that regualr TV can't. Remember kids, the religious right and organizations like Morality in Media want to also censor HBO and take stuff off like the Sopranos, The Wire and Big Love.

[NVMojo]

16. it's a good show, it has successfully made me nauseous ....

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. What's the deal? No channel changing knobs on Mormon's Tvs

or do they just no know how to work it?

[noonwitch]

25. You want to get a faithful Mormon all riled up?

Ask him if he knows that Hugh Nibley sexually abused his daughter while reenacting ancient egyptian rites as part of his research into church doctrine and history. Hugh Nibley was an apologist for LDS, and really well-respected. His daughter Martha wrote a book about a year ago in which she accuses her father of abusing her when she was a kid. The guy died right around the time the book was released. Her mother and siblings are saying that an evil therapist gave their daughter false memories. It's a big controversy within the church.

[0007]

27. That is interesting, I'll have to get a hold of that book.

What is the name of the Book, BTW.

[AzDar]

28. Actually, on 'Big Love', they are practicing the version of Mormonism

called for by their Founder and 'Prophet', Joseph Smith; Smith himself had 33 (known) wives.
The Mormon churched decided to officially renounce polygamy in order to have Utah become a State, and admitted to the Union.
Talk about cherry-picking your Dogma...LOL.

[dubyaD40web]

30. Big Love rules!

[rniel]

31. Watched it for the 1st time last night

I didn't see in any way how it paints mormons as bad people. Other than the polygamy thing.

[Zhade]

32. And I'M pissed that they try to 'cure' GLBT folk with shock therapy.

Yeah, it's been done by the church, look it up. "Porn therapy", too.

And they flew the swastika in their German churches during WWII, while the Jehovah's Witnesses (another nutty cult, IMNSHO) at least defied Hitler, even to the point of death.

This ex-Mormon doesn't give a FUCK what bothers that homophobic, backwards started-by-a-fraud-known-as-such-in-his-own-time cult!

(If there are Mormon DUers here: I apologize for the offense, but I absolutely stand by my comment.)

[Maraya1969]

33. OK the keywords - Porn +Therapy are just not a good thing to put

into GOOGLE. I added "gays" and I did see a site where the Episcopal Church ruled NOT to try and push GLBT to change themselves and I also read about one man who said he was recovering from that aversion therapy. I didn't get to a site where they gave electric shocks while showing gay porn but I am not doubting that it happens.

I used that therapy to stop smoking but that is quite a different thing. since I did not come out of my mother's womb with a cigarette in hand.

[Zhade]

38. Hahaha! No, I imagine that's not a good Google combo!

:rofl: I didn't even think about that.

Try exmormon.org, linked above, for more on the 'therapy'.