Explaining the temple as a response to Big Love

13 March 2009 @ 10:35 am | 3 comments

1. As most everyone in the bloggernacle has already posted, here is a video produced by the LDS Church explaining why Mormons value the temple so much. A nice touch is the inclusion of some non-LDS scholars explaining the historical importance of temples.



2. Variety.com published an LDS publicist’s explaination of what is required to go to the temple and how improbable Big Love’s temple scenarios is, no matter how much research they claim to have done.

By doing so, the HBO and all affiliated with “Big Love” will do all Latter-Day Saints and the public at large a huge disservice by blatantly depicting not only something that is held as being supremely sacred by Mormons around the world, but also by depicting and promulgating a lie that a practicing polygamist (like the character “Barb”) would ever be allowed into an LDS Temple. Then again, I have a hard time believing that any practicing polygamist would even want to go through a Mormon Temple ceremony; but hey, who am I to judge?

At the end of the day, I agree with the premise that HBO has the constitutional right to produce and air “Big Love” as well as this forthcoming segment.

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  1. Chino Blanco’s avatar

    Chino Blanco on 13 March 2009 at 12:04 pm

    Tom Hanks puts this brouhaha into perspective (and waxes prophetic) at the 3rd season premiere of Big Love:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7JgK_mmEBk

    “There’s gonna be lies, and secrets, and discoveries, and problems. Television!”

  2. David H. Sundwall’s avatar

    David H. Sundwall on 13 March 2009 at 12:14 pm

    Chino -

    Have your fun as this is the third time you have copy and pasted this spam comment in a Big Love post at my blog. I thought you wanted to be taken seriously.

    This is the last time I’ll let you do this as I think the contrast between the Church’s YouTube clip and yours speaks volumes.

    But no more.

  3. Chino Blanco’s avatar

    Chino Blanco on 13 March 2009 at 6:24 pm

    David -

    For what it’s worth, I agree (about the Church’s YouTube clip). Powerful stuff. Much better than that lame press release.

    And as far as the spam is concerned, I apologize for that. More often than not, my duplicate comments are not intentional.

    In any case, who ever said I wanted to be taken seriously?