USCCB reclassifies gay Western "Brokeback Mountain" after complaints

[The Straight Story]

USCCB reclassifies gay Western "Brokeback Mountain" after complaints


Washington DC, Dec. 16, 2005 (CNA) - "Brokeback Mountain," originally rated L (limited adult audience) by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been reclassified as an O (morally offensive) after several pro-family organizations expressed concern for what they saw as an implicit endorsement of the USCCB film critic to the controversial gay western.

Brokeback Mountain is the story of two sheep-herding cowboys in Wyoming who begin a homosexual relationship on the range in the 1960s, and continue their affair even after they marry women.

The $13-million film garnered seven Golden Globe nominations from foreign film critics.

Director Ang Lee’s homosexual Western premiered last weekend in limited release. Showing in five theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, the film grossed $544,549, averaging $108, 910 per theater. A wider release is slated on December 16, with a nationwide release in January.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5643

[BloodyWilliam]

1. Morally offensive or not, it's still gotta be better than Hulk.

/Damn you, Ang Lee!!

[BOSSHOG]

2. I rate the USCCB as O

Catholic Bishops in America who hide pedophiles are morally offensive. What is morally offensive is those two cowboys thought they had to conform to societal "norms," get married, have kids. That is offensive USCCB, all the while your subordinates are butt fucking and sodomizing the kids of your parishioners and you have the audacity to sit in judgement of a movie? There is a place for humans like you, if, of course, you believe your religion.

[rd_kent]

3. HAHAHA!

Yes, when they get their OWN house in order, THEN they can worry about other stuff.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Nothing like a rating to boost interest & attendance

[mitchum]

5. They're just disapponted that the cowboys aren't really boys

[pocket]

6. well duh

they're catholics. this is what they do.

[Not Me]

7. Who cares what they think,

n/t