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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
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Posted on 12/14/2005 11:22:00 PM PST by Antioch
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To: nonsumdignus
Queers reviewing queer films are the reason the USCCB is too busy to stand with us Christians fighting to restore the Creche to public property and 10,000 other things.
This is way beyond sickening. It is evil. If the USCCB can't do good can't they at least shut the hell up and not side with the enemy in the Culture of Death?
To: Antioch; american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; ...
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posted on
12/15/2005 3:04:08 AM PST
by
NYer
("Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion")
To: highlander_UW
Why do they keep calling them cowboys? They are gay shepherds. So does that mean they don't get to eat pudding after all?
To: Clemenza
Yeah! Laughs. Thats it! Thats the ticket.
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posted on
12/15/2005 3:42:56 AM PST
by
normy
(Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
To: highlander_UW
Why do they keep calling them cowboys? They are gay shepards.Thank you, those were my thoughts exactly.
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posted on
12/15/2005 3:45:27 AM PST
by
normy
(Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
To: Antioch
Except for the initial sex scene, and brief bedroom encounters between the men and their (bare breasted) wives, there's no sexually related nudity.Except for the sexually related nudity, there's no sexually related nudity...
Who can take this crap seriously?
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posted on
12/15/2005 4:07:47 AM PST
by
old and tired
(Run Swannie, run!)
To: Antioch
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.
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posted on
12/15/2005 4:13:08 AM PST
by
Varda
To: Antioch; All
Look at this ad they are going to try to run in the "red states" to trick people into seeing the movie.
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posted on
12/15/2005 4:14:45 AM PST
by
backhoe
(The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
To: Antioch
Gerri Pare, David DiCerto and Anne Navarro are on the staff in NYC for the office of Film.
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys an anti-Catholic movie that included incest, got the same rating, "L". Go figure...
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posted on
12/15/2005 4:47:03 AM PST
by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
To: backhoe
I think every Catholic on this site should email friends and relatives with this disgusting review to alert them to the disgusting tenor of liberalism ringing in the USCCB's office of film review. Donoghue ought to be notified. Emails ought to be sent. I shudder that one word of approving acknowledgement would go out about a movie that attempts to innoculate us against our normal reaction to sodomy: it is a sin and offense against our heavenly Father. It cries out for revenge. And if we permit its glorification with no objection, God will make his displeasure known. I just played "The Bible", directed by John Huston, for my seventh grade class. It's quite an eye opener watching the Sodom and Gomorrah scene: perhaps something most would say is too much for seventh graders-but these kids have MTV and God knows what else. It is a good reminder that one cannot bring God to wrath without a healthy fear for one's own well being. Yes, it is hell fire and brimstone: what's wrong with that? V's wife.
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posted on
12/15/2005 4:57:10 AM PST
by
ventana
To: ventana
V's wife- I agree with you.
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posted on
12/15/2005 4:59:37 AM PST
by
backhoe
(The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
To: Antioch
I guess "hot button issue" is the new term for "mortal sin"?
And all the sexually-related nudity isn't too much sexually-related nudity?
And according to the gay publication that reviewed it, the guy who wants to break up his marriage comes off as "courageous," whereas the one who refuses to abandon his wife and children comes off as "cowardly"?
Lovely. Just...lovely.
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posted on
12/15/2005 5:01:36 AM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
("Gay." To think it used to mean "happy.")
To: Antioch
Insane. Caddyshack got the big "O", but this tribute to gay-love didn't???
I give up.
To: Antioch
On the trip, Jack proposes that they chuck their families and buy a ranch, but Ennis -- who as a child witnessed the aftermath of a hate-crime murder of two rancher neighbors who had lived together -- can't bring himself to do it. *************
I'm shocked at the tone of this review. Shocked, and disappointed.
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posted on
12/15/2005 5:11:07 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Antioch
An appalling review. The reviewer should be fired.
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posted on
12/15/2005 5:14:21 AM PST
by
Thorin
("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: Antioch
Nothing surprises me anymore. I wish I could be shocked by something like this.
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posted on
12/15/2005 5:31:18 AM PST
by
murphE
(These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
To: Antioch
**film which portrays the "need for love which everyone feels but few people can articulate...." **
What about the love for their married wives? (I haven't seen this, but heard the comment {or read it} on a Christian review.
I think we need to send our judgments to the USCCB.
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posted on
12/15/2005 5:50:30 AM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Antioch
A didn't see contact infor:
Office for Film and Broadcasting | 1011 First Avenue, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10022 | (202) 541-3000 © USCCB
(Could not find a live link.)
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posted on
12/15/2005 5:57:43 AM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Antioch
We could always contact our individual Bishops and let them know that we think this movie should have received a 0-morally objectionable rating.
http://www.usccb.org/bishops.shtml
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posted on
12/15/2005 6:00:08 AM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Antioch
The Matrix an O rating (Excessive violence and recurring profanity)
Bad Boys II an O rating ( stylized graphic violence, and a sexual encounter)
Caddyshack an O rating (obnoxious characters, lewd jokes) Note that none of these movies were up for Oscar nominations during the time of their review and their ratings would not have warranted media attention.
But I'm sure that has absolutely nothing to do with it...
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posted on
12/15/2005 6:02:08 AM PST
by
mike182d
("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
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