'Brokeback' Star Slammed by Former School

[imouttahere]

'Brokeback' Star Slammed by Former School


Brokeback Mountain actress Michelle Williams has been disowned by her former school because of her role in the controversial gay cowboy romance. Williams, who attended exclusive Santa Fe Christian School in San Diego, California, has been blasted by the school's headmaster as "offensive" for acting the long-suffering wife of a homosexual ranch hand, played by Heath Ledger. Jim Hopson has branded the Oscar nominee a poor role model, and hopes his education establishment won't be linked to the film's themes. He tells the San Diego Union Tribune, "We don't want to have anything to do with her in relation to that movie. Michelle doesn't represent the values of this institution. Brokeback Mountain basically promotes a lifestyle we don't promote."


If Michelle Williams wins, I hope she tells these people to fuck off!

http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-03-03/#2

[Teaser]

1. fuck these shiteaters

I can't stand it. Just can't effin' stand it anymore.

[MuseRider]

2. Don't worry Mr. Hopson,

you just made the link all by yourself and you proved yourself and your school to be anything but Christian.

[Hippo_Tron]

7. Seriously, I would have never made that connection on my own

Mr. Hopson did it for me.

[MuseRider]

13. Most people would never have wondered

where she went to school. LOL, these idiots are trying so hard to stop anyone from thinking that they are ending up painting themselves as loud mouthed, hateful bigots. It certainly has turned me away and I would imagine I am not alone.

[tanyev]

3. What's the difference between Michelle Williams' character

and the poor women who are married to the fundie "ex-gays"?

[Janice325]

4. That headmaster is a moran.

Perhaps the students of that "illustrious institution" don't feel the same way.
I can dream, can't I?

[pinto]

5. Ms. Williams; It's a movie. She's an actress. Could have been Macbeth,

and that would bother you as well. Get over it.

[Misunderestimator]

6. She should feel proud to be slammed by such bigots.

Asses.

[imouttahere]

10. I think that's the way to look at it, misunderestimator!

you know you're being yourself and doing something right when fundies are pissed at you.

[rodeodance]

8. tsk tsk.

[Ecumenist]

9. Make no mistake, Teaser....

These types are more than a bit off balance. I went to private protestant Christian schools in southern California and have seen much weirder than this. They've always been out there, it's just that now they have a forum. To them, anything outside of their own heavily restricted paradigm is damnably sinful, as in going to hell sinful. The funniest thing is that they do't all agree what is sinful. What is wrong in one congregation isn't necessarily in another. The only thing I would say is almost universal is that most, if not all of their restrictions apply to women and girls in one way or another.

[imouttahere]

11. Exactly...my biggest problem with Christians....

is their selective morality. That alone makes the whole religion bogus to me. BTW, I was baptized catholic.

[Ecumenist]

15. I have a problem with people who call themselves.....

Christians. I am a Christian but I have never understood how these people can take what the beliefs and tenets of Christ and twist it to fit their own warped sense of morality.

[insane_cratic_gal]

12. Just a recruiting tactic and free publicity for them.

Latching on to the fame of Brokeback.. so they can point and say to those minions.. "See we don't support gays!"

Otherwise why would you even come out and condemn a former student?


You think Gacy's high school came out condemning him?

What about... Clinton's? (we know how they like to condem the Clenis)

Nixon?



What about Hillary Swank's high school for her roll in boys don't cry or million dollar baby?

It's just bullshit they are using it for the extreme christian right to get free publicity, to further their own agenda.pathetic.

[imouttahere]

14. Great points!

it really is about publicity for these folks, and if you believe in the old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity....