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A state-by-state breakdown shows movie goers in Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky and Alabama were the most eager to watch the film ahead and during the opening Valentine’s Day Weekend.
The film opens on Feb. 12 and the 8 p.m. showtimes are already selling out in Tupelo, Miss.
Right here in the home of the AFA tickets are selling out fast.
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The American Family Association and its president, Tim Wildmon, are urging everyone not to see the movie. Aside from the graphic sexual nature of the movie, the AFA said the movie promotes domestic violence.
I'm confused. Is the point that the movie is more popular because people are hypocritical about what they mean by family values in those states, or because they favor domestic violence, or both?
I'm confused. Is the point that the movie is more popular because people are hypocritical about what they mean by family values in those states, or because they favor domestic violence, or both?
As much as the bible belt talks about family values, and the attitudes about sex in general, I find it hypocritical that the movie is so popular here.
I'm confused. Is the point that the movie is more popular because people are hypocritical about what they mean by family values in those states, or because they favor domestic violence, or both?
I think it is popular because of sexual repression -- for the same reason that porn sites are, according to other studies, disproportionately visited by denizens of the Bible Belt. Take a normal human appetite, make it shameful and something to deny and hide, and you instantly make it 10 times as appealing. You also end up distorting the appetite in unintended ways.
I don't know that it's inherently hypocritical. It's true that we know from past experience that "those who complain the loudest" are usually denying the thing they complain about within themselves. Hence, iconically, you have the shouting preacher railing against homosexuality who is eventually disgraced for furtively hooking up with gay lovers. Similarly, I'm sure that some of these people who find 50 Shades titillating are the very same people who rail against it publicly and maybe even indulge in it in private. But some of them are also probably people who who don't crusade against it and are furtively trying to explore their sexuality and keep it private, even if their exploration is contrary to dogma.
The level of hypocrisy that IS present is also just not as great for the average pew-warmer as it is for their leadership. An ordinary church member may publicly oppose X as cover for privately not opposing it. Just to get bona-fides with the in-group. But leadership should be held to a far higher standard and some of them are just cynical manipulators.
Why would you be surprised? There are hypocrites in the Bible belt as well as anywhere else.
Surprised? Who's surprised? I'm certainly not. Speaking for myself, this is completely predictable. Anyone who's familiar with christianity is very accustomed to this kind of hypocrisy, and has come to expect it on a regular basis. We're not surprised by it; we're just amused.
Obviously quite a few since the movie is the highest grossing rated R movie in presales.
It has already beat out the passion of the Christ for opening weekend sales.
Yes--I agree that there are plenty of hypocrites that claim to be Christian and show otherwise by their actions.
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