Monday, March 9, 2009

Important

I know it's late, but I recieved this today, and it's too important not to post. I hope that we will all pray and let them know of our concerns!

I just got this email, did my research and it's 100% true. I downloaded the .pdf of the TV Guide and on March 15th HBO is scheduled to air an episode of Big Love that depicts the temple ceremony, the temple clothing, etc etc. Please please contact HBO with your protest, and the FCC as well.


On Sunday March 15th, the HBO how Big Love is showing an episode containing an excommunication as well as temple ceremonies.

They hired an ex-member to help create the ceremony, rooms, and clothing. HBO is owned by Time Warner. Send your emails, snail mails, phone calls, to both companies to show HBO that we won't stand for the use of things we consider sacred on their show Big Love, which is using a replica of an endowment room and celestial room to how what happens in the ceremonies there! Just keep it within Church standards please! If you would like to protest, I recommend complaining to both HBO and the FCC:
HBO is owned by Time Warner:
Time Warner Inc.One Time Warner Center
New York, NY10019-8016212.484.8000
http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=GeneralInformation&questiontype=generalInformation&questiontype=general

Here is something you might want to RESPECTFULLY say in your own words to HBO:

-I believe it is wrong for HBO to publicly air portions of sacred ceremonies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints without permission from the church and based on information given you by someone who has left the church and may harbor bad feelings toward the church and wish to do it harm.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO:
The FCC is the government agency that regulates all broadcast and cable television. File a complaint expressing your shock and dismay at HBO treating the sacred ceremonies of any religion with such mockery and disregard, and that it is shoddy work hiring excommunicated members/enemies of church and giving them a public pulpit to hurt the church.

To File a complaint with the FCC go to:http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm-
Choose "Broadcast (TV and Radio), Cable, and Satellite Issues" and then click "NEXT."-
Choose "Broadcast programs showing obscene, profane, and/or indecent material" then click "NEXT."-
Click on "ONLINE FORM" Fill out the form with your complaint and submit.

Edit: Condider Romans 1:16- "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ." This is something we need not sit back and let "someone else do it". Satan is fighting hard to reduce the sacredness of not only the temple, but our families. We know that the Lord will permit what he will, but we should show our willingness to do what is right.

5 comments:

Rachel Holloway said...

That totally makes me sick. Ugh! Thanks for sharing. I wrote in. Hopefully a whole lotta people will do something to change it!

Julia said...

Thank You so much for adding this. I now have it on my blog as well. I can't believe this and I hope that everyone that sees it writes in. Thanks again.

Rick and Jenny Runyan said...

I can't believe this....I just wrote my two cents to HBO. I hope you don't mind I copied and pasted some of this to my blog. I had gotten an email from my mother-in-law about this but yours was written much more clearly. Thanks!

Danelle Grossnickle said...

I got 3 of these emails and I happened to skim through the channels a week ago and caught a corner of this episode...I hate tot ell everyone it has already aired...it shocked me because I didn't even know anything about this show and HELLO outside temple ceremony...YIKES! The wording wasn't exactly the same but close...very disturbing!!! I will launch a compliant for sure. Now I know NOT to watch Big Love( I had no idea what that show was)

Cassandra, James and Madison& Eli said...

Sorry to hear about this going on. Anything that is as rudeas depicting such scared ceremonies against the will of the church is wrong. I did some research on it and it bothers me. I'm sure you have seen this but if not heres this as well. Put out my the Church. I may not be Mormon but that does not mean that I don't respect your beliefs and a lot of the ideals of your faith.
http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-publicity-dilemma