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[Dan]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/11/film.kinsey.protests.ap/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- Indignant conservative groups are protesting this week's opening of the film "Kinsey," denouncing it as propaganda seeking to glorify the researcher they blame for inspiring the sexual revolution.

"Alfred Kinsey is responsible in part for my generation being forced to deal face-to-face with the devastating consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, pornography and abortion," said Brandi Swindell, head of a college-oriented group called Generation Life that plans to picket theaters showing the film.

"Kinsey," starring Liam Neeson as the pioneering professor, opens in limited release Friday and nationwide in the following weeks.

Its writer-director, Bill Condon, has described the film as "a sort of litmus test for one's own ideas about sexuality."

Although the film portrays Kinsey as a flawed adulterer, conservative critics nonetheless contend it is too admiring. They argue that it omits unflattering details about Kinsey's interest in pedophilia and exaggerates the accuracy of the findings in his groundbreaking sex-behavior studies of 1948 and 1953.

"Instead of being lionized, Kinsey's proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele or your average Hollywood horror flick mad scientist," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women of America's Culture & Family Institute.

Focus on the Family, an influential Christian ministry based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, said in a review of the film that "Kinsey" mocks Christianity and condones immorality.

"To say that it is rank propaganda for the sexual revolution and the homosexual agenda would be beyond stating the obvious," wrote reviewer Tom Neven.

"If this was a true documentary, they would have included more negative information," Swindell said. "They're sugarcoating the issue, trying to make him look like a genius who all of humanity should be grateful for."

Robert Peters, president of the conservative watchdog group Morality in Media, saw an advance screening.

"Kinsey wasn't wrong about everything," Peters said. "No question there was an unhealthy shame about sex that prevented people from getting help. ... There were a lot of people who were suffering."

"A film could have been produced that would have shown that side of Kinsey but also shown the hell that he released," Peters added. "That's part of Kinsey's legacy -- AIDS, abortion, the high divorce rate, pornography -- and there's not anything in the film to connect him with it."

Gotta love the lady that pretends this was trying to be a documentary.

 

[RedDwarf]

Get me off this crazy Christian ride already. I don't know who Generation Life is, but they can suck my balls.

 

[Substance]

Hey, Liam Neeson's performance is getting the best reviews of his career with this film, amazingly moreso than Oskar Schindler. I'm surprised at the potency(!) the subject, I was unaware of who Kinsey was and the trailer played it out like something cute.
Interesting..

 

[Mermandala]

Kinsey Invented the SEX REMIX!

America once again has it's precious celluloid resources attacked by pervert armies. Hide yer Daughters, Plug yer Cornholes, Kill yer Pets!!!

KULTURE WAR! Vote or Gay.

 

[belgurdo]

Kinsey should be equated with the infamous Nazi medical butcher...because he researched sexual practices and created an institute based on his research?

Forget the South, I want 90% of the country to be a distant memory

 

[cvkpaladin]

Never heard of the movie but now am kinda interested in seeing it. Ha, take that you damn crazy-ass Christians! Without you I woulda prolly never even thought about giving the movie a chance.

 

[Willco]

I don't think you should ever censor a film or protest it, because that's just facist bullshit stupidity, but if you're going to make a factual portrayal on a historical person or event, you should make it as accurate as possible. And it sounds like this may not be the case from several sources.

 

[Manabanana]

We need to start fighting back. We need to protest these protests.

[pcu]"We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest!" [/pcu]

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

"Instead of being lionized, Kinsey's proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele or your average Hollywood horror flick mad scientist," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women of America's Culture & Family Institute.

shouldn't the director of a women's group be, I dunno, a woman?

 

[FortNinety]

"Alfred Kinsey is responsible in part for my generation being forced to deal face-to-face with the devastating consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, pornography and abortion," said Brandi Swindell, head of a college-oriented group called Generation Life that plans to picket theaters showing the film.

Sounds like a true hero to me.

Christ, Bush was re-elected just over a week ago and I feel like I'm in the 50's.

 

[ShadowRed]

shouldn't the director of a women's group be, I dunno, a woman?

Silly Bune, when would a woman have time to do that between slaving over a hot stove and being pregnet and submitting to her husband.

 

[Willco]

Alfred Kinsey is responsible in part for my generation being forced to deal face-to-face with the devastating consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, pornography and abortion," said Brandi Swindell, head of a college-oriented group called Generation Life that plans to picket theaters showing the film.

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST KINSEY INVENTED STDs!

 

[Mermandala]

If you don't want to be forced to deal face-to-face with the devastating consequences of sexually transmitted diseases don't go down and eat the dirty salad even if your head is being pushed by a mighty arm. Resist! B Modest!

 

[Dilbert]

I don't think you should ever censor a film or protest it, because that's just facist bullshit stupidity, but if you're going to make a factual portrayal on a historical person or event, you should make it as accurate as possible. And it sounds like this may not be the case from several sources.

How about if, instead of a "factual portrayal" (whatever the hell that is supposed to be), you are simply making a movie?

 

[Willco]

How about if, instead of a "factual portrayal" (whatever the hell that is supposed to be), you are simply making a movie?

Because this movie is based on a real person and as an artist, you should try to be accurate.

 

[Dilbert]

Because this movie is based on a real person and as an artist, you should try to be accurate.

Art is NOT about accuracy.

 

[explodet]

... and I feel like I'm in the 50's.

The 50's is the new retro.

 

[AntoneM]

Because this movie is based on a real person and as an artist, you should try to be accurate.

I'm sure John Nash masturbated in college but there is no need to put that into the movie A Beautiful Mind. How accurate does a movie based on a real person have to be?

 

[belgurdo]

Because this movie is based on a real person and as an artist, you should try to be accurate.

I take it you've never actually talked to an artist before

 

[Randam_Hajile]

*sigh* Crazy conservatives....

 

[Hitokage]

I'm sure John Nash masturbated in college but there is no need to put that into the movie A Beautiful Mind. How accurate does a movie based on a real person have to be?

A Beautiful Mind being a fictionalized rendition of John Nash's life...

 

[Jim Bowie]

Ray Charles did lots of heroin in Ray. Did they boycott the theater because Ray still won (after he gave up drugs. But he wrote all of his classics on the horse)?

And because Ray WAS RUINING GOSPEL MUSIC! GOD'S MUSIC! YOU BOYS WILL BURN IN HELL!

 

[xsarien]

"If this was a true documentary, they would have included more negative information," Swindell said. "They're sugarcoating the issue, trying to make him look like a genius who all of humanity should be grateful for."

Well, for starters, it's not a documentary...

People like this really, above all else, need to stop being given attention by the media. If you take away their audience, half of their reason for existing evaporates.

 

[Iceman]

People have an inalienable right to protest... and you the inalienable right to mock them...


who's "better"?

 

[Azih]

Depends on the situation.

In this situation, the mockers, definetly.

 

[xsarien]

People have an inalienable right to protest... and you the inalienable right to mock them...


who's "better"?

Well, if you're going to protest you may as well get your facts straight, and then be sure to seperate them from obvious opinion. There's nothing about Kinsey, the man or the movie, to protest. He studied sex, one of the most basic, and most primal instincts in all of nature. The obvious contradiction in how people who profess such a love of God have such a problem with how he designed us (according to them, I don't really subscribe to that notion) is staggering.

 

[Warm Machine]

Well, if you're going to protest you may as well get your facts straight, and then be sure to seperate them from obvious opinion. There's nothing about Kinsey, the man or the movie, to protest. He studied sex, one of the most basic, and most primal instincts in all of nature. The obvious contradiction in how people who profess such a love of God have such a problem with how he designed us (according to them, I don't really subscribe to that notion) is staggering.

In christian belief there is no room for "instinct" It is choice up and choice down.

 

[MetatronM]

I still think "homosexual agenda" is one of the funniest phrases out there (in that not really funny sort of way).

 

[videogamer]

Well, if you're going to protest you may as well get your facts straight, and then be sure to seperate them from obvious opinion. There's nothing about Kinsey, the man or the movie, to protest. He studied sex, one of the most basic, and most primal instincts in all of nature. The obvious contradiction in how people who profess such a love of God have such a problem with how he designed us (according to them, I don't really subscribe to that notion) is staggering.

Not only that, the people who protest against this movie can have an affect on the real world. It's perspectives like this that inhibit sex-research funding today.