Fuck the Christian conservatives - I'm glad they're pissed at hollywood.

[Rabrrrrrr]

It just shows how little their useless fucking unbiblical unscriptural hypocrite opinion matters.

Stupid fucks - they're all pissy and whiny because films that have "gay themes" are being nominated for Oscars.

Yeah, well, fuck you.

Stupid woman from "Concerned Woman for America" on now saying that these movies don't resonate with America. Idiot - if they don't resonate, then why are they so goddamn popular? Dumbass.

I wish they would just shut the fuck up, and crawl into a hole and do their own thing in their own made-up world.

[redqueen]

1. You're so nice, Rabrrrrrr.

I don't even want to say what I wish they would do. :(

But yeah... them shutting the fuck up about their stupid idiotic ideas about what their dumb asses think America wants would be a good start, regardless!

[BlueJazz]

2. Yeah..I just saw her also..and thought.....

"If you're so damn concerned with America then why did you vote Republican"

[skygazer]

3. More morans who seem to think other people's relationships

Somehow have some sort of bearing on their own. I don't understand it - what the fuck difference does it make? Don't like it? DON'T GO SEE THE MOVIE, DICKWAD!!!!!

And of course, the more they blather about it, the more people think, "Hmmm, that sounds like an interesting movie..."

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. And they're the only shitknocking idiots who think they're sexual movies

anyway.

Normal people see "brokeback Mountain" as a love story - one that happens to involve men, but it's a love story.

The righties, who say it's so evil to think about sex, are the only ones making these movies into sex movies, and the only ones talking about sex.

I wouldn't despise them so much if they weren't so abusive and destructive of my chosen faith.

[xchrom]

7. ding! ding! ding!

we have a winner.

and i'm with on the chosen faith thingy too -- that's what makes me want to boil over so.
we need a lippy, radical{the way it should be} christian liberal crew to get equal air time.

they want a culture war -- let's give it to them.

oh well just dreaming.

[Aristus]

29. If anyone ever forms a lippy, radical Christian liberal crew,

I volunteer to be on it!

I'm sick and tired of the right-wingers defining my faith.

[Benfea]

25. Look at history. They have an awful lot of company.

I don't mean to mock or demean you, but it seems they are the rule rather than the exception.

[libnnc]

4. Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em in the ear.

Of course they might enjoy that...

[Dukkha]

6. and as far as "Passion" being so popular

that is ONLY because churches were buying out thousands of tickets to give away. Nice use of tithe money morons. The homeless don't get fed but they can see a crappy Mel Gibson snuff film.

[redqueen]

9. Did they really?

*sigh*

[xmas74]

10. Lots of churches did pay for movie tickets for Passion.

My church decided to donate that same money to a local food pantry and have a viewing party of it when it came out on dvd.
I didn't show up for that viewing.

[Initech]

8. I hope Brokeback Mountain wins best picture

Just so that way Hollywood can send a collective "FUCK YOU" to James Dobson.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. And I hope the sex-change movie takes a few, too!

[Initech]

16. You mean "Transamerica"?

Yeah, that would be great as well!

[hickman1937]

12. Unfortunately I think BBM is going to get mostly shut out.

It's too popular and has made too much money. The Academy members usually seem to think that that's award enough and vote for someone else. SAG already did it.

[2bfree]

27. Big time movies almost always win.

:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. I agree - just think "Titanic". I don't see the big popular movies

getting shut out. The big popular bad ones, maybe...

[smirkymonkey]

13. Hah! Payback for the Jesus Chainsaw Massacre.

Also know as "The Passion of the Christ"

[RevCheesehead]

14. These are the same assholes who got "Book of Daniel" cancelled.

And I am beyond pissed about that! I'm glad I recorded the first three episodes... but still.

I wish these fucksticks would stop trying to make their agenda MY agenda.

[Initech]

17. I'm pissed I didnt get to see "Book Of Daniel"

It looked like a really fucked-up 7th Heaven (which would have been great because I hate 7th Heaven). Hopefully it'll be released on DVD.

[RevCheesehead]

19. I certainly hope so...

But maybe some cable network will pick it up. Perhaps Bravo?

[Initech]

34. It'd probably make a better fit for Comedy Central

I could see it going on Bravo, but it'd be better suited for a network that had extremely low standards.

[AussieDave]

15. I think it's hilarious that the two front-runners for Best Actor

portrayed a gay cowboy (Heath Ledger) and a gay author (Phillip Seymour Hoffmann).

There'll be much a-prayin' over the next few weeks.........

:rofl:

[Jara sang]

18. yeah, fuck them. They are destroying America.

[Yavin4]

20. Hey Fundies, "Cheaper by the Dozen" Sucked

Get over it.

[jakefrep]

21. They've been pissed ever since...

.."nice Christian boys" Kirk Cameron and Willie Aames got kicked off the A-list.

They won't rest until our only TV viewing choices are "Little House on the Prairie", "Touched by an Angel", and "7th Heaven" reruns.

Never mind that the music, TV, and movies they foist upon us as Christian "entertainment" just plain suck.

[elshiva]

22. Amen. God loves GLBTQ and the fundies BEST RECOGNIZE!

WE'RE HERE TO STAY AND WE'RE TELLING OUR STORIES TO EVERYONE.

Thank God these movies are getting recognition.

[Benfea]

23. The only thing wrong with Christianity is Christians.

Other than that, it's a fine religion. ;)

Put another way, "God, save me from your followers!"

[jmowreader]

26. Well, SOME of His followers

I think all of us would have to agree that our own RevCheesehead is a fine example of an old-school Christian, that being a person who lives in a Christlike manner. She is a person to be respected and admired.

It's these new-school Christians, the ones who have decided everything they don't like is un-Christian and will get you sent straight to Hell, who are to be feared and loathed.

[Benfea]

30. Try "most" not "some"

Most Republicans wouldn't be in office if a majority of Christians didn't buy into that nonsense.

[Benfea]

31. Sorry, that came off more combative than I meant it to be.

I stand by my statement, but I didn't mean to come off that mean-spirited.

[jmowreader]

41. I don't think it was mean-spirited at all

Because you're absolutely right: this IS how Republicans get elected.

Consider 2004. We had two problems: our guy ran the worst campaign on record, and their guy ran as a Christian. His speeches were liberally salted with references to God, and they ran lots of photos of Bush with crosses over his shoulder, with the light forming a halo around his head, with famous ministers clutching George's right hand. Message: Bush loves God and God loves him back.

The rest of the Republican candidates followed suit. Combined message: if you love Jesus, Republicans are for you.

And then they put those fucking Gay Marriage Ban initiatives on the ballots of many of the states we really needed. I think Bush could have beat Kerry in 2004 without swiftboating, Diebold or voter suppression just on the strength of the Gay Marriage Ban. If you go to the polls to vote for the Gay Marriage Ban, you'll probably go ahead and vote for president while you're there--and since almost everyone in favor of banning Gay Marriage is a believer of some stripe, they'll push the button for the candidate who's endorsed by God.

Bush's pandering to God's Followers neatly dismisses one very important fact: If God was in the business of endorsing American politicians, he'd endorse fucking Lyndon LaRouche before he endorsed George W. Bush. Bush's record is completely at odds with Jesus':

* Jesus healed the sick. Bush signed a law allowing hospitals to kill poor people.
* Jesus cared about the poor. Bush has done everything in his power to make more of them.
* Jesus befriended prostitutes. Bush sent his attorney general to New Orleans to round all of them up. (Note to Bush's people: maybe you should send someone who knows how to buy pussy next time...I coulda got a grunt out of the Second D or a long-haul driver out of any line except Covenant Transport, shipped him to the Big Easy and caught more hookers in one night than your fundamentalist Attorney General got in six months.)
* Jesus was a man of peace; Bush started two wars.
* Jesus took the sins of the world at Calvary; Bush won't even accept blame for the things he did personally.
And let's not even start on the practicalities and ethics of buying burqas for statues!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. ok

so alito was in this "Concerned Student" sexist, racist boys club and now I see this "Concerned Women" horse shit... what's next? I may create a "concerned" group...hmmm... how about "Concerned with Democratic Criticism" Hey, it's the CDC, maybe we can stop this "concerned" disease before it spreads.

[bumblebee1]

28. The one thing these "Concerned Women" don't realize is

When you stir up controversy about a film, It makes more people want to see it. The folks wanting to see it want to figure out what was the big deal. Why was all the controversy stirred up in the first place.

[Skittles]

32. anything that gets those sanctimonious pricks foaming at the mouth

I APPROVE!!! :thumbsup:

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. They staged protests against 'Monty Python's Life of Brian'

with much the same result.

...(I)t was decided to open Life of Brian first in America, where freedom of speech and religious choice is enshrined in the constitution. Or so it was thought. Life of Brian received its world premiere in New York on August 17 1979, the same week as Apocalypse Now and The Muppet Movie.

The opening salvo in what became a heated and often surreal religious war of words arrived on August 19 from Rabbi Abraham Hecht, president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America, who claimed to speak for half a million Jews. Speaking in Variety, he declared, "Never have we come across such a foul, disgusting, blasphemous film before."

Hecht went on to make public his view that Brian "was produced in hell".

After Hecht's denunciation, outraged religious leaders queued up to vent their spleen to any hack with a microphone, in stark contrast to other more liberal churchmen who defended the film's right to be shown.

The voice of Protestant protest belonged to Robert EA Lee of the Lutheran Council, whose tirade against Brian - "crude and rude mockery, colossal bad taste, profane parody. A disgraceful assault on religious sensitivity" - was broadcast across 1,000 radio stations.

Not to be outdone, the Catholic film-monitoring office rated Brian "C" for "Condemned" and implored its flock not to visit theatres where it was playing, it being a sin to do so.

Naturally, the protests and marches only served to heighten Brian's media profile and so increase its box-office take. Nothing sells better than when it comes attached to the whiff of notoriety. When the shit started hitting the fan Stateside, the original plan to open Brian on 200 screens nationwide snowballed to nearer 600.

"They have actually made me rich," Cleese ribbed on an American chat show. "I feel we should send them a crate of champagne."

http://www.movienet.com/lifeofbrian.html

[NMMNG]

35. I, too, wish they would

"just shut the fuck up, and crawl into a hole and do their own thing in their own made-up world". However they seem hell-bent on taking over and controlling us in ours. :-(

[Starbucks Anarchist]

36. Reminds me of a funny story about them.

The woman you usually see on TV representing Concerned Women for America is Sandy Rios.

I recall an episode of Crossfire where she debated some issue with Kim Gandy from the National Organization for Women. Somehow, the topic of marriage came up (the topic may have been gay marriage), and either Begala or Carville asked Rios and Gandy about their marital status.

Turns out Gandy was happily married and Rios was divorced. :rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. LOL! I love all these multiply-married multiply-divorced rightwingers

who go on and on and on about defending the sanctity of marriage, and how gay marriage is going to hurt traditional marriages.

It just kills me when they do that while holding on to their wife or third husband...

And yes, it was Sandy Rios on the news last night. What a fuckwad.

[Bassic]

37. Just some more Christian perscution right?

Fucking morans.

I shouldn't read these threads in the morning, they piss me off for hours.

[Strong Atheist]

38. There is no constitutional right

to not be offended ...