I normally prefer to pontificate about my own thoughts and feelings and leave the blogging of American Christian right tomfoolery and jackassery to capable others within the blogosphere, but this is way, way too good not to pass on.

Take this, Brokeback Mountain: now there’s Sodom and Gomorrah the movie. (Via Livejournal’s Dark Christianity community, where a commenter appropriately remarks that it’s a shame Kirk Cameron isn’t in this flick, it’s the only thing that would have made it awesomer.)

Here’s the plot synopsis:

Provoked by temptation, a tumultuous affair is about to begin, and it will burn as deep as the desires that brought it to life. Michael Gooden is a God- fearing man who has been married for eighteen years. He has a wonderful wife and two teenage children. But one day he is cornered by an ultimatum that will unleash the desires pent up inside of him. Michael begins an affair that has him torn between guilt and desire and right and wrong. Michael’s wife Sarah is blindsided by his affair. Throughout her struggle to deal with the truth she must find a way to maintain her sanity and strengthen her children for the fiery events ahead. She holds on to her faith amidst the turmoil that plagues her family and her church. Michael abandons his church, family, and home for his new life with his lover Jimmy. His one choice sets off a firestorm of events that will consume everyone in its path.

So, given the graphics on the movie’s homepage and the references to fire in the synopsis, is it too much to hope that the movie’s characters are literally destroyed by fire? That would elevate this project to all-new levels of so-bad-it’s-goodness.

I wonder if the gay interloper gets offered a virgin daughter to rape in this version?

I still can’t get over the fact that the filmmakers actually called their anti-homosexuality polemic Sodom and Gomorrah. Up until now I’d credited Chrsitian right “artists” with a little more subtlety (although, having read several volumes of the Left Behind series, I have no idea why).

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