Time for action against Time-Warner Inc.

Time-Warner, Inc. is the parent media company for the Home Box Office television company. Before the first season of the HBO series Big Love aired more than two years ago, the show’s creators and HBO executives assured members and leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) that the series wouldn’t be about Mormons. However, many disrespectful Mormon themes are woven into the show, and Mormon characters are rendered as unsympathetic figures who are narrow-minded, confused, or self-righteous. According to TV Guide, the March 15, 2009 episode of Big Love sacrileged the faith’s most sacred temple ceremonies.

We are offended when the most sacred practices are misrepresented or presented without context or understanding. We view this programming as a form of religious pornography. Therefore, we encourage all who share our viewpoint to take the following personal choice actions against Time-Warner entities.

1. Cancel subscriptions to:
* AOL (formerly America Online)
* Time Inc. publications (Fortune, Time Magazine, Mad Magazine, Money, People, Sports Illustrated, Sunset, among many others)
* HBO and Cinemax ... both heavily oriented toward R-rated (violence, nudity, profanity) movies and unrated pornographic-action series that air nightly

2. Discontinue purchases of video DVDs bearing the Time-Warner, Warner Bros., or New Line Cinema labels.

3. Avoid patronizing the following Time-Warner movies (among others):
* Watchmen
* The Dark Knight
* Sex and the City
* Journey to the Center of the Earth
* 10,000 BC
* Get Smart
* Body of Lies
* Yes Man
* Four Christmases
* Gran Torino
* All “Harry Potter” films

Big Love is not "big," and it it knows nothing about real love.