Ah, Wonderful..... The Family Stone. This image to the right is close to the movie poster for this gay activist film against "traditional marriage". You can visit The Internet Movie Database at http://imdb.com/title/tt0356680/ to see stats on The Family Stone (2005).

So, you say you can watch or listen to anything without it affecting your thoughts, your actions or your perceptions? Why then do "they" pay $2.4 Million for a 30 second spot add during the Super Bowl? This movie runs it's intent into your brain for 103 minutes. Activism, those that really want to affect your thinking, get into making movies, or paying for them.

To learn a little more about the Writer/Director of this 'film', take a trip to An interview with "Big Eden" director Thomas Bezucha with Planetout.com Entertainment.
http://www.planetout.com/entertainment/news/?sernum=162

Ask any woman to see her diamond ring....Go ahead.... She'll hold her hand out flat, or vertical with all fingers adjacent. I guarantee she will not display it as so much of a fingered-flip off. What’s the point you say? Subversive Activism.....Yeah, you get it, when your Eyes are not wide shut.
Take a flying guess why the DVD doesn't have this movie poster cover? Anyone?

America has a long history of its love affair with the silver screen. So many of us just want to say: "It's just entertainment, there's not a message being planted into my mind." This movie is about Thommy's activist views on traditional marriage... But wait, Thommys gay couple in the movie was married..... What a double standard? No, it's a subversive tactic only. The 'mother' of this story line states, "you’re more normal than any a$$54ole here" to passivist her gay son.
[emphasis and commentary is mine]Clipped: A few years back, Thommy Bezucha was the darling of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender (LGBT) Film Festival circuit with his micro-budget first effort, “Big Eden.”
Q: Have you ever considered yourself a gay activist? Or just a gay person true to yourself?
Thommy: In a sense, I think any gay person who's true to himself and out is in some form or another an activist. I was involved with ACT-UP actually when I lived in New York. I was arrested at City Hall demonstrations. ..But you know, the activism thing has always been interesting to me because I've always sort of hoped that in its innocuousness, "Big Eden" was somehow subversive. [refers to an attempt to overthrow structures of authority, including the state. It is an overturning or uprooting. Some of us get it.]
Q: Did casting come together easily for this film? It seems like the main and even supporting characters could be stars in their own movies, yet you've gathered everyone together here?
Thommy: I know, it's that embarrassment of riches thing. {It's Who you KNOW, and judging from hollywad, well, Birds of a feather......} What happened was Michael London, the producer and I, made an offer to Diane Keaton before it was set up at a studio. All we had was the script and Michael's credibility based on a movie called "Sideways".
Q: Do you think your years spent as a fashion executive have helped you as a director? That you might have an intrinsic understanding of how things should look on the screen?
Thommy: I think ten years at Ralph Loren is invaluable to me. In that I restructured divisions that I've had to hire and fire people before in my life. I'm not sure that people coming right out of film school have that experience. [You have experience that film students don't? I'm sure there are film students that have much more diverse experience than you could imagine, Thommy.]
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=10104 And a Clipping from Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat [emphasis and commentary is mine] The Family Stone, written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. His first film, Big Eden, was an unusual gay romantic drama emphasizing the point that community means accepting people just as they are — their gifts and beauty along with their flaws and inner pain.
(After all, inner pain is what it is to choose gayness, yes, that's right. Choose. Look at the details of the scientific results, you'll see, no DNA for gay.)
Bezucha reveals the pleasure it gives individuals to judge others and take them down a notch or two. But he also salutes the value of picking people up and making them feel good. {Knock them down, and then they need someone to pick them up, right?} This Yuletide morality(?) play is filled with comic reversals and surprises that open us up to the wisdom of the famous Rebbe Nachman of Breslov who said: "Be like god and don't look for people's shortcomings and weak points. [That's little g people] You will then be at peace with everyone." What a fine way to incarnate the true (?) Christmas spirit! [OH, Gimmie a Break!] Rebbe combined the mysticism secrets of the Kabbalah with the Jewish Torah (Law) basically polluting the Torah teaching with Majik. Thanks to the Brussatts for this one.
Orson Scott Card said: This movie reeks of political correctness, but it's clear that the writer (Thommy) is perfectly happy to purvey a complete set of stereotypes about gay people -- as long as they're "positive" stereotypes. Only they aren't positive at all. I've known gay people with very sweet dispositions (and, of course, some with surly ones) -- but even the gentlest was never passive. http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2006-01-01.shtml the most unfortunate aspect of this film: The acting is superb. It's odd that whenever Hollywood writers want to show people how bad Conservative People are, they can never show real conservatives (though there are certainly some wacky ones they could draw on); nor, when they want to show how noble Liberal People are, are they any better. For instance, the parents of the family in this movie are written to be liberal icons. But they're actually complete failures as parents. The father (Craig T. Nelson) is a vague, ineffectual fellow whose heart is in the right place, but it's obvious that he can hardly make a move in his own home without fearing the consequences if he upsets Mom. Mom (Diane Keaton), on the other hand, is a weird mixture of a rebellious adolescent's "dream mother" -- you know, the kind who never says no to her kids no matter how offensive or outrageous their behavior is -- and the domineering "nightmare mother" who always has to have her own way and runs roughshod over everyone else, all the while smiling and pretending that she's not demanding anything for herself at all, she's only Thinking of Them.


I said: Pretty snow, very postcardess - This film provides a prime example of a family dedicated to knowing God and keeping Him out of their lives entirely. In the opening credits, the one 'Christmas' card that persists the longest for your viewing pleasure is the one that says 'XMAS', clearly cutting Christ out of this 'CHRIST-Less, Mess' story. The house has 'Holiday' cards in many locations, remarkably, not one card holds a religious image. No, none. The people don't even know a Christian, or won't put their card up in view. The tree with all its trimmings doesn't even have a star, much less an angel. The [dying] matriarch is the tree trimmer. Dad and {matriarch referenced} prodigal son are marijuana smokers and do whatever they can to keep Mom happy. Youngest son is clearly gay-married for years, and has his 'physical' handicap and doesn’t act like any gay male I've ever met. (Austin, Montrose, San Fransisco) Maybe it's because I don't know any gays from back East? Middle daughter has kids and is pregnant, clearly not a disturber of the peace. Eldest son is a closet Buddhist, even in his relationship with the 'straight' woman. He's clearly seeking something spiritual, clearly not finding it in his childhood home. The baby of the family is a mad, mean NPR supporter who tolerates few, and judges all. Mom, well she is the boss, and she wouldn't tell her kids to stop or shut up if her life depended on it. Minor points to be sure, but what the film does teach is that the mother of this house runs it, and clearly nobody wants to 'Cross' her. The only character in this movie that shows any claim to spirituality, keeps all his Buddhist images hidden in his childhood closet, and doesn't want to come out, I'll just bet Mom controls that as well. Several references are made to the fact that the gay couple have been together for years and are married. Yet, they don't act like gays other than their proximity to each other. The Crossed Mother claims gays are more normal than the "derogatory term" others that don't agree.
Ah, Tolerance and acceptance, as long as you agree AND Celebrate their gayness. Thanks Thom. [If you look - up Tolerance, you'll find it's putting up with something you don't agree with. Not acceptance as equal to your values, or as the Gay, Lesbian and Transgender community define it: 'Celebrate' and 'Encourage', so long as you're not talking about Christianity]
One even stands in the center of the screen and flaunts his wedding ring, complete with a momentary flash off of it, just when the 'ring' is in the very center of the field of the cinematography frame. This still is taken moments before the "Family" get it's first joyful ostersizing of Meridith, http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0356680/FS-156.jpg In Understanding filmmaking; that everything in the field of view of any screen shot is there by design will help you know the point of a film. This film was supposedly set in Connecticut, {Filmed in Jerzy} and the married gays drive in from Massachusetts [license plate on their Rover, thanks Ford for all your gayness support]... The straight conservative posses a question, "Why indeed would you want any of your children to be gay". Mom said she's hoped all her boys would have been gay so they'd not leave home. Matriarch-control, yes, Mom's make boys gay? But, the single boy child that is gay did leave her. Presumably to be gay-married. It's a movie with a clear message that having your Hetero-sons sex-swapping sisters (Even when one is to be engaged) and other sons being gay is all OK, but just don't Bring The Cross of Christ into their lives and don't say Boo to the gayness..... Hollywood loves this massage. Still trying to figure out the camera shot of Mead Hall at Drew University. How does this fit in? STATUE OF FRANCIS ASBURY
The bronze equestrian statue celebrates the mission of Bishop Francis Asbury, who was the first Episcopal leader of the Methodist Church in America. Dedicated in 1926, Drew President Ezra Squier Tipple accepted the statue, indicating its “first mission was to give students faith, zeal, and devotion.” God’s standard of righteousness and holiness declares homosexuality is sin, but His love and redemptive power are able to bring wholeness and restoration to the entire individual, including his or her sexuality.
This goes for anyone’s life that is focused on sexuality, not just homosexuals. Check this: New Hope Ministries: http://www.newhope123.org/ Genesis Counseling: http://www.genesiscounseling.org/ Rainbow Cross Ministry: http://www.rainbowcross.org/page2.htm

Sin is Sin, This is not saying that a gay person is worse or better.

What it is saying is, your trying to make a sexuality CHOICE a minority status. Sorry, that's just a choice and I won't agree with you. Gay Activist Alliance exist to outreach, mainly to your children, and now we see Sheila Kuehl (middle) sponsoring SB1441 and SB1437 which would MAKE schools promote Gay Lesbian & Transgendered life styles and outlaw state funds (like student loans) from being used anywhere anything negative is said about being in or part of a Gay Lesbian & Transgendered life style. So much for Christian Community Schools getting any student loans for the STUDENTS THAT WANT TO ATTEND THERE!. Sad thing is, it passed and now the Governator is the only one standing between the first step in total Biblical censorship by the United States Government.


As for research:

Links

• Bible Gateway
• Ministries at OnePlace.com
• Edit-Me

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