Why My Wife & I Paid $12 For a Night With Two Gay Men
This is more than just cross-promotion of my wife's blog...she has written an excellent "apology" (not in the "i'm sorry" sense, but in the older sense of "defense") for why she and I watched the well-crafted Brokeback Mountain. As a bonus, she includes the unsettling question: why did Christians who freaked out about that movie happily go to see heterosexual romances with the exact same message?
Read her insightful post here.
Read her insightful post here.
posted by Justin | 2:02 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks, Mark! I'll see if I can fix that.
Hey, it worked...i'm feeling wonkish already.
Mattias,
Good point...Mel and I actually discussed this before seeing the movie, and decided it was worth it. We wanted to see it not only for its artistic beauty, but also (as Mel pointed out in her blog) in order to know what we were criticizing when we spoke against it. Just as I read the Da Vinci Code, which i don't agree with.
Or this: When "Kingdom of Heaven" came out last year, you and i went to see it (you graciously bought my ticket, as i recall--thanks!). That movie certainly had an aggressively anti-Christian slant, and a blatant agenda: its vision of "the kingdom of heaven" is one where all religions live in peace and tolerance because they all know that they're equally untrue.
Pretty heinous, really...yet we watched it, enjoyed some scenes, and rolled our eyes at the villainous Catholics...all without supporting its agenda in any way.
I could go on and on with examples. Yes, we should certainly be careful of how we spend our $ and who we give our approval to. But ALL branches of the media are entangled with sin, and if we are going to confront it--much less start a dialogue with our non-Christian friends and neighbors--we will sometimes be supporting people whose agendas are warped.
Lord have mercy on us all.
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