Tag: 'media'
Life Proportions
However little television you watch, watch less.
Swashbuckler
Man, this just makes me happy to be a Mormon... and a little anxious to have Dallin of swashbuckling age. :) He'll just have to be the sleeping royalty for now. And April will have to play double parts: my companion w/ a blade and the maiden rocking the babe.
A Look at Social Media
LOL! Uhh, is now a good time to tell you to check us out @aprilandjake?
The Church in the Public Eye
I can not relate how I feel about our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I love it! I love who it stands for. I love who it's run by. I love the principles for which it stands. I love what it declares itself to be. The church has been a great influence in my life. I owe so much to Jesus Christ and His kingdom here on Earth.
With the backdrop of my feelings, it is not hard to understand why I am concerned when the church is the focus of negative sentiment and more especially distorted portrayals. A prime case of really an appalling media look at the church will come next week in HBO's series "Big Love". They are purported by TV Guide to be planning on showing an episode featuring the temple ceremony. As a member of the church, I am surprised and disappointed in this decision.
The church has published what I think is simply an inspiring reply to HBO's decision. I invite all to read it. In part, it says:
"Church members are about to face that question again. Before the first season of the HBO series Big Love aired more than two years ago, the show’s creators and HBO executives assured the Church that the series wouldn’t be about Mormons. However, Internet references to Big Love indicate that more and more Mormon themes are now being woven into the show and that the characters are often unsympathetic figures who come across as narrow and self-righteous. And according to TV Guide, it now seems the show’s writers are to depict what they understand to be sacred temple ceremonies.
"Now comes another series of Big Love, and despite earlier assurances from HBO it once again blurs the distinctions between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the show’s fictional non-Mormon characters and their practices. Such things say much more about the insensitivities of writers, producers and TV executives than they say about Latter-day Saints.
"If the Church allowed critics and opponents to choose the ground on which its battles are fought, it would risk being distracted from the focus and mission it has pursued successfully for nearly 180 years. Instead, the Church itself will determine its own course as it continues to preach the restored gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world."
Please speak up and be a firm, respectful voice, championing the cause of truth and right in this world that continues to mock our truth and values on every hand.
HBO has a feedback form where you can voice your opinion directly to the company. This is a ridiculous overstep into the sacred religious lives and practices of a peace-loving religion. As said in the article by the church, if you want to learn more about the church, let it speak for itself, as it shall in no doubt continue to do as it rolls forth to fill the Earth.