John Llewellyn, a former member of the Apostolic United Brethern and author of the critique Polygamy Under Attack: I lived it for 20 years and had three wives. There is competition between wives and a woman is not above using her sexuality if she is a cute girl to gain favor with the husband. There is always going to be competition to see who is going to be the dominate wife and who is going to be the favored wife.

There is always contention or problems going on. I know from experience that much of the man's time is keeping peace. No matter how fair and equal in every respect [you try to be,] you're going to be accused of not being fair. That's just human nature.

Your personality changed when you were alone with each woman. We had three different locations at one time and then two. I was one guy here and another guy there. You crave some privacy of your own because you're always in demand. Not sexually, like [HBO shows] but your attention. It's not an easy life.

Fawn Broadbent, a teenager who several years ago left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: My whole life, I have never seen a happy family where I came from. Never.

HBO's new series, "Big Love", is about a polygamous family and is set in a
Salt Lake City suburb. About the likely impact of this sexually driven show,
the New York Times said, "We may never look at Utah and think white bread
again."

Parodies of beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
occur- belief in priesthood by a man blessing his hunting rifle, belief in
personal revelation from the Holy Ghost by dramatic visions that the
polygamous leader discusses casually with a friend. Talk of "celestial
kingdom", "free agency", and the "Choose the Right" slogan are included.
There is a brief disclaimer stating that the polygamists don't have an
active connection with the LDS Church. But if the writers don't intend for
viewers to make the connection, one wonders why they set the show in Salt
Lake City, the Church's world headquarters, and why they included
distortions of LDS beliefs.

NBC recently cancelled a show about a dysfunctional Episcopal priest who saw
a "Jesus", after almost 700,000 people emailed and complained.

Couldn't we do the same for this show? If you agree, will you email a polite protest to HBO?
Thanks!

Source of info: www.lds.org click on Newsroom for News Media

Susan Hatton
Marietta, GA

Contacting HBO:

Go to www.hbo.com,
scroll to bottom of page,
click Contact Us,
click on The Sopranos (unless Big Love is listed when you do so),
scroll to the page bottom
click on Contact Us. Then enter your information, specify
it's about Big Love, and leave a message asking them to cancel this
offensive show.
One or two sentences is all it takes. Or feel free to copy or edit
this message: I am offended that you would produce the series Big Love.
It demeans and distorts sacred beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter- day Saints. By setting the show in Salt Lake City, it blurs
the line between the Church and the long renounced practice of polygamy.
Please cancel the show immediately.

For "extra mile" effort and effect, call HBO's operator at 212:512-1208
from 9am to 5pm Mon-Fri EST and ask to leave a message asking
them to cancel Big Love.

Interesting too that the people interviewed in the article as having sent emails admitted that they had not seen the show.

I am LDS and have watched all of those shows. We don't know for sure if these protesters have seen it or not.

I think the church does not care that it is on the air as much as they would like a clear disclaimer before the show.

I think the church does not care that it is on the air as much as they would like a clear disclaimer before the show.

Even polygamists who have left whatever cult still wear their special underwear. I don't think that someone like Barb, Nikki, or Bill would feel comfortable without them.

Yeah... sure. Like should their be a disclaimer before "Friends" saying this isn't how most young people without earning power live in NYC? Or maybe before the Sopranos they should give a clear disclaimer that it is not accurately portraying Italians or Catholics?

How do you know this? Are the polygamists on TV saying they still wear Gs or something?

I could see Bill and Barb still wearing theirs, until they wore them out, but where would Nicki have even gotten them? She's never been a member of the LDS church, she's always been polygamist.

Didn't Fox cancel a show about a man who saw God because of the complaints? I think religion is a bit different. People WERE upset about the sopranos portraying catholics and italians in a negative light.

My response to everyone about every channel is: if you don't like it, your remote has channel changing buttons,and an off button!

I think it was NBC, Book of Daniel.

BUT, now *you* are not comparing apples with apples.

People complained about Sopranos, and, so what???

HBO is a premium channel. It's a choice. It doesn't have the commercials and sponsorship worries that a "main" channel does.

My response to everyone about every channel is: if you don't like it, your remote has channel changing buttons,and an off button!

Remember that "compounds" like Juniper Creek and Colorado City broke away from LDS or FLDS. These sects believe that taking polygamy out of the religion was against the commandments that Joseph Smith believed.