Fundies go ballistic over 'Brokeback Mountain'

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Found this at AmericaBlog:

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038874.cfm

Reviewers Call 'Brokeback Mountain' Twisted
by Pete Winn, associate editor

Gay love story carries a high "ick" factor.

"Brokeback Mountain" is a cowboy movie where neither of the leading men gets the girl — they get each other.

The "gay Western love story" that will premiere Friday has won film-festival awards and is drawing lots of media attention. Reviewers have called it a "landmark."

Focus on the Family Action Analyst Caleb H. Price said Hollywood is doing all it can to get people interested in a film that they know most moviegoers will not want to see. Set in Wyoming in the 1960s, the R-rated love affair between two cowboys culminates in explicit gay sexuality.

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"If Christians protest too loudly," he said, "they can end up making the mistake of calling attention to a movie that otherwise may not do very well at the box office."