Big Love – because “polygamy loves company”
(photo: HBO/Big Love via Wikipedia)
Via Ex-Gay Watch we learn the HBO series Big Love, which focuses on a fictional polygamist family of fundamentalist Mormons, will introduce a provocative plot line that involves “a romantic storyline between two men who have been through ex-gay therapy.”
From Crystal Tompkins, writing at Examiner.com:
Alby (Matt Ross) the show’s closeted vilian and son of the leader of the shows fictional polygamist group, will be given a love interest this season named Dale (Benjamin Koldyke). According to Entertainment Weekly, both Alby and Dale have been involved in “ex-gay” therapy for some time with no success.
“There’s a provocative nature to what we’re doing,” executive producer Will Olsen declared. ““It’s more than just the Mormon culture. We’re highlighting certain aspects of the church’s relationship with its gay members that I think, as the story unfolds, is going to cause no [small] amount of controversy.”
Joel Campbell, a columnist for MormonTimes.com, accuses the show’s producers of “sticking it to the LDS Church through fuzzy plots lines and tenuous connections in the past.” According to Campbell, “[Big Love's] Producers are using their artistic license as a screen for misinformation and bigotry.”
(tip: Ex-Gay Watch)
