Such an awful inaccurate movie
This was just a hate movie to try and cause a stir. Very poorly done and distasteful. It seems like a grudge movie then an actual form of art. Handled very poorly.
shareYour posting history is rather interesting for someone who thought this sweet fairy tale of a movie was distasteful.
Not garnished? Not finished!
Sweet fairy tale? It's slander.
shareNot sure what you mean by slander, but if you're referring to the inhumane "treatments" Aaron goes through in the movie, there may be more to it than you'd like to believe.
There are multiple reports of electroshock “reparative” therapy conducted at Brigham Young University in the 1970s. You might want to go to this link: http://www.affirmation.org/learning/fourteen.shtml
Also, this http://www.connellodonovan.com/abom.html#shocking
Even if you question whether these acts were authorized by the Church and what actually happened, these quotes (from Spencer W. Kimball's Miracle of Forgiveness) are absolutely chilling:
[Homosexuality is curable and forgivable] "To those who say that this practice or any other evil is incurable, I respond: 'How can you say the door cannot be opened until your knuckles are bloody, till your head is bruised, till your muscles are sore?’"
[And the Church is helping the police take care of it] "Recognizing the seriousness of this problem in modern society and the need which offenders have to be assisted back to normal living, the Church has appointed two of its General Authorities to help on a Church level. Under the direction of the two Brethren many have been helped in faraway places, as well as in areas near the Church headquarters, through the bishops and stake presidents concerned. The success of this rehabilitation program has become known to the police, the courts and the judges, who refer many cases directly to the two Brethren, sometimes on a probation basis."
Granted, these quotes are both from 1969, when others where pursuing electroshock as well...
Indeed. Slander is the scary language the LDS church promulgated to ensure passage of Proposition 8 in California: gay people will recruit and attack your children, etc. As is being played out in court this week, it's irrational bias. Now, reaction to such irrational bias is completely rational, isn't it?
Not garnished? Not finished!
The movie is just hate and full of false information. Thankfully this movie barely made a penny.
shareffgodbq,
You do realize that it is loosely based on the life experiences of the Director/Writer, CJ Cox, right? It isn't his story, nor a true story, but it is consistent with his experience as a gay member of the LDS Church.
With the exception of some very minor details it is pretty accurate to the way homosexuals were treated in the church at the time the CJ Cox was involved with it as a 20 year old man. (Granted that by placing the movie in present day he missed that the church has become just slightly more accommodating to gays. But only slightly.)
What do you think is false? The church did sanction reparative therapy. Aaron likely would have been excommunicated for having slept with a guy while still technically a missionary. Please, tell us what the false information is?
As an active member of the church, I watched this film and didn't really see hate directed towards the church. What I saw was a realistic story that touched me deeply.
However, when I watched the videos that our church put out regarding Prop 8, I saw plenty of slander, falsehoods, and hate.
-Jeff
...was highly innaccurate in my opinion and almost totally over the top. Much in the film was exaggerated, as I posted many years ago in threads long gone. Cox would have served his cause better if he had made a more realistic film. I am no longer an active member of the LDS church but I did feel it was very biased in its approach, not objective and did in fact show hatred towards the Mormon church. I did not see videos in support of Prop 8, but I was unhappy that the LDS church took a wrong political stand.
Oh Lord, you gave them eyes but they cannot see...
"Slander," is it? You do not say if you are LDS, but you certainly sound like one to me. And the FACT is that the LDS church spent MILLIONS OF DOLLARS on a propaganda campaign that led to the passage of Proposition 8, one of the most viciously anti-gay pieces of legislation in recent history. And it had the Mormons' fingerprints all over it.
Quit your whining. If you can't stand the truth, don't watch the movie. C Jay Cox was himself a Mormon missionary in his youth; I see no reason to question what he has shown here.
Never mess with a middle-aged, Bipolar queen with AIDS and an attitude problem!
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