THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Eight Oscar nominations for “Brokeback Mountain” means that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “is honoring a film that tells only half the story about the experience of homosexuals in American culture,” a leading social conservative group said this week.
“The real truth is that those who struggle with homosexuality, like the two lead characters in ’Brokeback Mountain,’ can leave homosexuality and the pain and emptiness that so often accompanies it,” said Mike Haley, director of sex issues for Focus on the Family, based in Colorado Springs.
Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed film portrays two sheepherders who struggle with homosexual attraction. Mr. Haley — himself a former homosexual — said “thousands of men and women … work diligently toward overcoming” such desires.
“This movie spotlights a tragedy that is avoidable, and almost seems to suggest that the damage the two lead characters do to their families is somehow forgivable because they are in love,” Mr. Haley said. “But it’s not society’s disapproval of homosexuality that causes the characters’ physical and emotional abandonment of their families.”
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