Christian Author Pines For Days When Religious Leaders Got To Boss Hollywood Around

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3. A lot of movies during the Hays Office Reign of Error were damned good

since it took truly great screenwriters to talk around some of the sillier restrictions, like the twin beds for actors who were not married to each other but were playing married characters who still liked each other.

If religious bullies were focused on egregious violence instead of normal sexuality, I might be all for it, violent movies wherein the characters communicate with screams and grunts bore the shit out of me. Unfortunately, all they care about is pretending that sex between consenting adults doesn't really exist and if any is found, it should be punished.

While I'd love to see something jar Hollywood out of its comic book obsession, religious sexual prudery is unlikely to do it. I do wish something would get through to conspicuous Christians that freedom of religion is not the same as freedom to bully everyone around them. I don't want to go back to the doublethink that said it was fine to simulate chopping a woman up and flushing the parts down a toilet but calling it a toilet was banned.

Yes, it was just that silly.