The Anglə "On 'Big Love.'"

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Featured on CNN.com http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-230885 A response to the choice by producers of HBO's "Big Love" to depict portions of LDS temple ordinances. This episode of The Anglə has been featured on CNN.com via iReport.com ... more

Featured on CNN.com http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-230885 A response to the choice by producers of HBO's "Big Love" to depict portions of LDS temple ordinances. This episode of The Anglə has been featured on CNN.com via iReport.com http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-230885 I first heard about the temple episode of "Big Love" on March 13 through an LDS Film e-mail list that I signed up for on LDSFilm.com. I really wasn't too surprised by it and it certainly isn't unprecedented for HBO, their 2003 miniseries "Angels in America"--based on Tony Kushner's play--featured Mromon characters and borrowed imagery directly from Mormon theology. It also discussed LDS temple garments and even showed characters wearing them. It surprised me then, but I wasn't offended. "Angels... less

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