Not if the church preaches God's Word b/c "The Bible" speaks out against homosexuality. I've never been to a church that said it is okay to be a homosexual. Of course, I've always attended Baptist Churches. I'm sure there are some new age contemporary churches that do as you stated. However, if they don't preach God's word they are not much of a church IMO.
I regret that I made it sound that way. I really wasn't referring to your personal boycott, we all do that at times for one reason or another. My censorship reference was about the notion of "Hollywood" corrupting America. The notion comes up every few years that Hollywood is out of control and something should be done about it. Last year we heard a lot about Hollywood's "liberal bias". In the seventies, it was movie ratings. In the fifties it was the "Red Scare" blacklisting and in the thirties it was the Hays Production Code trying to influence the principles depicted in films. A personal boycott is the best way to influence Hollywood--vote with your wallet. No problem. They are in business and if a film doesn't sell, they won't make any more like it. I just don't think that Hollywood is any kind of menace to society and efforts to depict it as a dangerously corrupt problem does seem like a familiar prelude to censorship.
It's just the latest fad. Trends come and go in the entertainment business. I the early sixties it was cornpone humor. Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Cool Hand Luke. In the seventies, it was blaxploitation: Good Times, Shaft, Superfly, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son. Recently it has been Reality TV and Gay themes. Producers have to keep coming up with something new and exploit it until it gets stale. Trends will continue to change. In a few years it will be something else.
Wasn't nice? I am not a churchgoing person and do not believe in the practices of such businesses. There are other ways aside from attending church. :thumb:
I was mainly responding to Calco's initial post when he said "even our church's preach homosexuality is ok". Anyways, I have to geaux now. I am picking up mesquite to go see a matinee of Brokeback Mountain.
After 52 days each at the box office,(as of 1-29-06) it's not even close: Brokeback Mountain - $51,024,343 Narnia - $277,867,308
That's pretty much exactly what I was going to say. If you're (or your child is) too much of an impressionable idiot to subject yourself to things you deem objectionable without being influenced by them, then yeah, I guess you need to shelter yourself from reality. But that doesn't mean that the rest of us can't handle it. Everyone looks to point the finger at someone else for the way they're afraid their children may turn out. Take some responsibility (a bad word these days in America, I know). Have a healthy, communicative yet still somewhat authoritarian relationship with your children, and you won't have to worry about them being influenced by such a miniscule part of their lives. But I really don't see what the fuss is about. Calco, I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain for the same reason red stated. I hate any kind of romance in movies. But I'm willing to bet that there is a hell of a lot less glorification of violence and sex than in 95% of movies coming out these days. From what I've heard, the most that happens is a few-second kissing seen. Are you afraid of children seeing this movie and deciding that they're gay? Well, that's just not going to happen. Really, what's the worst that could happen? People stop being bigots? Oh hell no. That kind of tolerance simply can't be tolerated! Who cares about people that are influenced by movies? They are stupid and only get in the way of the intelligent people in society. Why do you care what influences them? That's fine. You have every right to do that. I just hope you don't plan on going to the movies for quite a while. Sex, violence, and the taboo are what sell these days, and you'll be very hard pressed to find a release that doesn't glorify any of those more than Brokeback Mountain does homosexuality. I don't here see you up in arms about 'Desperate Housewives.' I just don't see how you can get all in a huff about this particular movie 'breaking down Christian values' while there are so many other, more successful movies that are such a more serious attack on them.
