Please help the Christian Right find new scapegoats.....

Rating: 10/10 (5 January 2006)

The most remarkable reaction to this film has been the silence with which it has been greeted by the "Christian Right." Aside from a few random acts of sabotage, i.e., posting low ratings on the Movies.com website without having seen the film, the "Right" has been mostly silent.
Is it too much to hope that even this group, so easily blinded by mass hysteria-type thinking, can accept as accurate the simple, anguished humanity portrayed in the film? If so, might they then reflect upon the great damage they have done to Gays, to their families, partners, and loved ones, by their years of witch-hunting a perfectly acceptable group of people?
Might they finally have come to accept the fact that verbal and other forms of gay-bashing have been, and are, more harmful actions on their part, than their fear-based ignorance has led them to expect from Gays?
I don't believe so. Jerry Falwell, Pat Robinson probably are not going to change their views. Like it or not, they are intelligent men and their present silence can be seen as their recognition that the truth of human existence will always win out over bigotry and false theology. They are merely waiting for "Brokeback Mountain" to run its course, before again picking up their cudgels. Their problem, however, is that many of their followers are also intelligent, and capable of thinking for themselves. Few people seeing this film can leave the theatre holding pre-conceived falacious ideas of homosexuality, marriage, relationships. Hopefully, a dialogue will begin in these deliberately ill-informed churches by which a more truthful acceptance of humanity can be achieved. Chances are, however, that the Falwells and Robinsons are just biding their time - which is good news for the other minorities that so terrify these backward powerbrokers.
Thank you, God, for seeing this film safely through.