Under The Banner of Heaven

[Philo Sofee]

Peterson
The screenplay for this upcoming miniseries version of Under the Banner of Heaven was written by the ex-Latter-day Saint LGBT activist Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the 2008 movie Milk, about the gay rights activist and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, and who worked as a writer, then as an executive story editor, and finally as a co-producer on Big Love. Black also narrated the documentary film 8: The Mormon Proposition, which was co-directed by the former-Latter-day Saint gay activist Reed Cowan. Under the Banner of Heaven will star the Anglo-American actor Andrew Garfield, who also figures as its producer. Previously, he’s played Spiderman/Peter Parker and — I really, really liked him in these roles — Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge and Rodrigues in Silence. Given his self-description as an agnostic pantheist and the fact that he’s starred in productions of Angels in America both in London and on Broadway — for which he won multiple awards, including a Tony, and an Olivier nomination — I’m not counting on Mr. Garfield, as its producer, to be a voice of respect and restraint with regard to the portrayal of Latter-day Saints and Latter-day Saint history in Under the Banner of Heaven.

Now if he could just recognize that coin has a tails side and he and Midgley were on it, he would instantly be enlightened as to why the materials they produce end up being seen in the same manner by those who look in on what both he and Midgley produce. That would be a great discovery for them...

[Dr. Sunstoned]

Fortunately very few draw water from DCP’s obscure little well.

Amen.

I did to a shout out to our humble forum. As he put it, "A small handful of embittered former Latter-day Saints". Thanks Dan, good to know you are still thinking out us.

[Fence Sitter]

Amen.

I did to a shout out to our humble forum. As he put it, "A small handful of embittered former Latter-day Saints". Thanks Dan, good to know you are still thinking out us.

It's not like Dr. Peterson is part of a small cadre of embittered former Maxwell institute employees now is it?

[Dr Exiled]

I think this quote should be changed to read:

"A beautiful small handful of wonderfully embittered as defined by us former Latter-day Saints, that help shape us as apologists by giving us something to fight against and a convenient group to blame when our gaslighting is discovered. Frankly, we would create them if they weren't there, as devils are necessary for propagandists to have any effect".