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USCCB reviews Brokeback Mountain ["The universal themes of love and loss ring true. ..."]
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ^ | Dec 12 2005 | usccb

Posted on 12/14/2005 11:22:00 PM PST by Antioch

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To: Mr. K
You can't even claim your girlfriend dragged you to see it- if she is able to, then you are too gay for a girlfriend.

ROFL!!!

41 posted on 12/15/2005 6:05:07 AM PST by Claud
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To: Antioch
Ennis resolutely insists he'll sleep outdoors, but the cold drives him into Jack's tent, where the two awkwardly, then roughly, have sex. Incidentally, that scene -- short and with the men mostly clothed -- is the only onscreen gay sexual encounter in the film.

Bold emphasis mine.

"Only one"? Weeeelllll wooooo-hoooooo!! Take the whole family!!! There's only one gay sex scene. Just one. We are indeed blessed to have film makers of such taste, modesty and understatedness. I mean hell, they could have shown sodomy from the get go until the final credits but instead, they gave us only a single, tastefully done humping scene. Excellent.

Gag!!!

Whoever wrote this review is a homo. Period. He's positively thrilled at the homosexual fantasy he's just witnessed and it sticks out like a sore thumb. This film is just a homo's wet dream and nothing more. The themes, i.e "inside every straight guy there's a little bit of the homosexual" and "even tough ranch hands like to walk on the wild side occasionally", are simply perverse.

" A serious contemplation of loneliness and connection", my fanny.

USCCB shows why the recent Vatican document and current seminary visitation are so desperately needed.

42 posted on 12/15/2005 6:05:15 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: Salvation
What about the love for their married wives? (I haven't seen this, but heard the comment {or read it} on a Christian review.

Let's use the USCCB's own logic:

1. Homosexual sex is wrong because it is the equivilent of non-marital sex.
2. Brokeback Mountain is about longing and loss within a non-marital sexual union
3. Brokeback Mountain is not morally offensive.

Therefore...

There should not be single movie about heterosexual, non-marital relations listed as morally offensive by the USCCB.

Right?
43 posted on 12/15/2005 6:05:28 AM PST by mike182d ("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
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To: Antioch

Can we finally declare AmChurch in shism, yet?


44 posted on 12/15/2005 6:05:47 AM PST by NeoCaveman (After 53 years it's time to turn out your Sheets, Hiram Lewis for Senate WV)
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To: backhoe
I hope every biker and cowboy in the South is tricked to see this movie.

That'll make them even more furious when they find out what its about and maybe some heads will roll.
45 posted on 12/15/2005 6:06:36 AM PST by mike182d ("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
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To: Antioch

"...-- a serious contemplation of loneliness and connection..."

For shame. This should be used as a teaching moment. That loneliness should be addressed by sex is wrong. That is what has created this messs of a culture. People are lonely and are convinced sex is the way out, or that pleasures taken in the wrong way in the wrong relationships with the wrong attitude are someone enriching.

For shame on these Shepherds of Christ who foresake what God actually wants humanity to resemble, and embrace the World's notion of what humans must become.



46 posted on 12/15/2005 6:10:11 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: pillbox_girl
So does that mean they don't get to eat pudding after all?

Let them eat cake.

47 posted on 12/15/2005 6:14:55 AM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: Darkwolf377

"Women will see this." I doubt it. Why pay for a stomach-turning view of something you can see in the big city any day? YUCK.


48 posted on 12/15/2005 6:42:28 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: marshmallow
"Only one"? Weeeelllll wooooo-hoooooo!! Take the whole family!!!

This whole post cracked me up. =D

49 posted on 12/15/2005 6:47:36 AM PST by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: highlander_UW
Why do they keep calling them cowboys? They are gay shepards.

Wyoming + cowboys + story of hate-crime murder + gay + sheppard = Matthew Sheppard

50 posted on 12/15/2005 6:59:48 AM PST by Between the Lines (Be careful how you live your life, it may be the only gospel anyone reads.)
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To: Antioch

The USSCB needs to be disbanded...yesterday. They are worse than useless. They actually do harm and cause scandal to the faithful.


51 posted on 12/15/2005 7:05:31 AM PST by Antoninus (Hillary smiles every time a Freeper trashes Rick Santorum)
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To: nonsumdignus
Note though that this film was one of the highest grossing films per screen

"HJighest grossout" is more like it.
52 posted on 12/15/2005 7:07:31 AM PST by Antoninus (Hillary smiles every time a Freeper trashes Rick Santorum)
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To: Antioch

I suggest that the reviewer has issues the reviewer needs to consider before reviewing things...like Catholic teaching.


53 posted on 12/15/2005 7:10:26 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Antioch

The president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, will be on Scarborough Country tonight. I called the League this morning and was told I was the first one to complain about the USCCB review, so if anyone is interested please call the Catholic League and let them know that you hope that Mr. Donohue addresses this matter in his TV appearance and website. They did suggest that I call my Bishop, which I intend to do. Please do the same. I would never ever have thought that this movie would get an L rating from the USCCB.Ever.


54 posted on 12/15/2005 7:25:48 AM PST by voiceinthewind
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To: Darkwolf377
The Matix should have gotten a PDB rating for Pretentious Derivative Bore.

That's for sure.

It also should have gotten a rating of RSA-p (racist, sexist, anti-police). Same ole formula: weak non-minority male gets straightened out by the strong, good, smart, balanced, sane minority males and women (especially minority women) while police are all sexist, racist, non-minority thugs.
Typical Sleazywood fare.

55 posted on 12/15/2005 7:27:10 AM PST by starfish923
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To: Varda
The USCCB gave a bad review to The Passion of the Christ. That along with this is all you need to know about the USCCB.


56 posted on 12/15/2005 7:29:08 AM PST by starfish923
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To: chae
My boyfriend told me the only way I would get him to this movie was if it was about 2 hot lesbian cowgirls.

Um, chae? That is every bit as sick and wrong as male homoerotics. If your boyfriend seriously finds lesbian sex scenes attractive, then his sexuality has been distorted by the porn culture. It isn't healthy for men to relate to women that way, and it isn't even authentic to the nature of man and woman. It's a serious disorder, not a joke.

57 posted on 12/15/2005 7:29:43 AM PST by Romulus (Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo.)
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To: Antioch
Why is this in religion?
58 posted on 12/15/2005 7:32:07 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Dr. Adrian Rogers, September 12, 1931 - November 15, 2005)
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To: Antioch

I agree. Why not an O rating ? They missed the boat on this one.


59 posted on 12/15/2005 7:56:49 AM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: Rutles4Ever; Antioch

There is a lot of inconsistency among the movie reviews put out by the USCCB. If you go to their website (just Google "bishops movie reviews") You'll find that they have a review for nearly every movie ever made. Obviously there are many different reviewers that have worked on this task since no person could have seen all these movies. Many of the reviewers are not bishops themselves, they are lay Catholics. In fact I imagine that the typical bishop is too busy to be a movie critic.

In any case, there's a lot of inconsistency among the reviews, probably due to different reviewers. Some reviews are overly sensitive and end up giving an O (i.e., no one should see it at all) to movies like "Caddyshack." Other reviews are overly permissive and give a pass to movies that should clearly get an O.

Even though lay people are mostly responsible for these reviews, it is still very bad that the USCCB is putting a stamp of approval on these things. Of course given the past activities of the USCCB, this is hardly a surprise. I thought I remember hearing that Pope Benedict would like to limit the power of national bishops conferences - if so, I hope he gets cracking soon!


60 posted on 12/15/2005 8:02:36 AM PST by sassbox (Weis, Weis, Baby!)
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