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Wow, a little bitty tv show even threatens most of you, just fresh off of your gay marriage ban. You just continue to make your religion look foolish. HBO will be just fine without your subscription. What are you afraid of.....could the world think it is a cult?

I have an HD PVR, if you ever want to watch it, give ma a call. You know you want to watch it...

I moved into a new home a few years ago and got cable TV and HBO. The next day, I cancelled HBO after I tried to watch a movie. It was nothing more than pornography and smut. Not my idea of entertainment. If it is to you, maybe you should take a look into your soul! The world would be a better place without HBO.

In the eyes of the Entertainment World, nothing is sacred anymore. Truth doesn't matter, accuracy doesn't matter, sensitivity to others doesn't matter. It's about what's new and on the edge that matters to them.

Mr. Ormond, instead of canceling my HBO subscription as you did I'm going to follow the advice of the advice of the First Presidency and just ignore HBO's tasteless depiction of what I regard as sacred.

In the grand scheme of things their misdeed is simply not that big of deal.

of all the idiots that rip on their neighbors every chance they get, I know it's been said before, but if you don't like Mormons what are you doing in Utah?

much to do about polygamy, porn and adultery. Just what our world doesn't need... MORE FILTH & CORRUPTION!

If anyone subsribes to HBO and doesn't know what they are getting, they are pretty stupid. And MEB, while you are correct, it has always been that way. The entertainment industry is all about making money. Even the revered Disney is just about money. The family thing is just an angle to take money from people. That's just the reality.

Re: I sure get tired.
"if you don't like Mormons what are you doing in Utah?"

Oh, I don't know, maybe that's where the work is or because Utah has great schools and a low crime rate, maybe because the skiing is awesome or because it's close to family. It could be for lots of reasons.

Maybe we can change people's minds about whether they like us by being good neighbors, turning the other cheek, being tolerant and charitable. We need them more than they need us. Let's expand our world view a little bit. What I've learned since I moved out of the state is that we don't hold the corner on the market on good people.

Look, we're all idiots in one way or another. Let's worry about ourselves first and not worry so much about how others define us or think of us. Chill pills come over the counter, not just by prescription. They're very tasty (most of the time).

If you are upset with HBO, don't get mad. Just get a few dozen like minded people and short sell Time Warner stock.

I called HBO and subscribed just to see it. DTV told me twice as many people are jumping on rather than canceling. So I guess HBO is dropping a dime picking up a dollar.

So it's okay for the LDS to butt into the issue of gay marriage in CA, misrepresent the issues to maximize the scare factor, then claim that they were just acting out of love for gay people and nobody should take any offense because they were only exercising their constitutional rights.

And it's also okay for LDS to continue baptizing Jewish Holocaust victims posthumously because it's part of the church's core doctrines, and once again, it's only done out of love so nobody should take any offense.

Now, let HBO exercise its constitutional right to air the LDS temple endowment, and go to great length and expense to ensure it's accurately portrayed, and showing as much respect as possible while still staying true to the story line, and now the LDS are all about respect for others and the right to be left alone to practice their most sacred beliefs in private.

Whether the producers of Big Love are acting as part of a personal vendetta or not, you can't say you didn't ask for just what you're getting.

Watch how little sympathy you get from the world

I still don't get it. It's ok to baptize for the dead jewish holocost victims, but it's not ok to show a temple cerimony. Both are sacred to the people that value their religion. As a few mormons have stated on this board regarding the baptisms for the dead, "it's not hurting anyone." So, I guess when the shoe is on the other foot, it isn't the same?

I am amazed at how seriously some take movies. Disney tries to tell me fish can talk, but I am not so sure.

I called and cancelled my subsription. It's the only way you can get your message to them in a way they understand. The more that cancel the better.

They directors (Olsen and Scheffer) appopogised for any offense this scene will cause but they still intend to show it. How does that work? Appologise but go right ahead and do the thing your appologising for? Sounds like a sincere applogy to me! (NOT)

In the appology (but were still going to do it) they pointed out that it was as "Acurate" as possible. Do they REALLY think the offense is from it being INACURATE? I don't care how acurate it is, the problem is... it's sacred to the people they KNOW they are offending. But they think being "Accurate" should make it all right?

I could make a bunch of analogies to point out how stupid this position is... but I think those who would get it already get it.

CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ASAP!!! GET THE MESSAGE OUT! They may not actually care but their going to hear from me.


Nobody said HBO doesn't have the "Constitutional Right" to air their impressions of this sacred ceremony.

HBO says it is doing this with respect and that they are showing respect by portraying it accurately. The exact opposite is true; by airing this they are disrespecting the LDS church and all of it's member because they are airing something that they know the church considers sacred and should not be shared outside of the temple.

If they want to do it, fine. They have every right. Just don't say it's with respect.

It's like when people complained about illegal, unwarranted wire-tapping by the last administration, the neocons asked: "What do you have to hide?"

Chill Pill wrote, "Look, we're all idiots in one way or another."

Really? Please tell me you're just joking, that you're just playing with us.

I thought being a member of the church kept us from doing idiotic things from time-to-time. Now you tell me we too are idiots?!

Can I get back to you on that?

If polygamists can't get into a Mormon temple, but a temple ceremony is being depicted on a polygamist show, isn't it logical to assume that the ceremony being depicted is a polygamist ceremony instead of a main-stream Mormon ceremony?

Have any of the people objecting to the portrayal actually verified it is a portrayal of a Mormon event?

In light of efforts by the Mormon church to distance themselves from polygamy and "Big Love," does it really make sense to now start screaming that they are so closely related that this episode exploits one of their tenets? Wouldn't it make more sense to continue the distancing efforts by saying, "These guys are different from the Mormon church and so anything they depict has no reality in the Mormon faith." (And then, even if it is perfectly displayed, who is to know except those who have been there and done that and they know all about it anyway!)

I just signed up for HBO. Anything that makes "THE CHURCH" cringe, squirm and squeal is a good entertainment value. Bring on the popcorn!