Mormons Not Laughing About Polygamy Comedy "Big Love."
Perhaps, but we're also not calling for the creator and writers to be beheaded, or threatening riots, death, and destruction in any city that dares to show it. Heck, I doubt that many will even boycott it--or call it that if they choose not to watch it. I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few DO watch it, frankly.
On the other hand, we may still ply our neighbors with green Jell-o salad with shredded carrots, and excess zucchini from our gardens. That may count as terrorism, I suppose, if we hadn't already been doing that.
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Ah, but "Big Love" (which sounds like a show for overweight people) doesn't talk about current doctrine of the LDS church. Would reaction be different if a show made fun of a *current* practice (e.g. the Danish cartoons and the ban on images of Mohammed, or the Christian reaction to the "Crucifixins" episode on Will and Grace)?
Actually, in an area I used to live a group convinced the local public access channel to air a series that criticized our church and made light of some things we hold sacred.
There were plenty of letters to the editor and phone calls to the station, but no death threats issued, no riots, no burned embassies, etc. I really can't imagine anything that would get our church on a murderous rampage like we're seeing from the Islamic guests in Europe.
Incidentally, when the move "Shallow Hal" came out in Finland, the title was, literally, "Big Love."
Indeed, one thing I can respect about the LDS Church is that it's figured out the whole "more flies with honey" concept, which is very rare among religions. Last weekend we had a "mainstream" Christian write a lovely article in the paper about how tolerance was all well and good, but that didn't excuse the fact that everyone else was wrong and needed to either accept The Truth About Jesus Christ or go to hell. The scary part is that this is someone who works for the paper - though thankfully not an editor. Wouldn't it be nice if we could impose a Universal Dress Code for fanatics? Everyone wearing a turban and long long beard is a psycho, ignore them!
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