Did Big Love Cross The Line With The Church Of Latter-Day Saints?
Tracie Egan Morrissey — newVideoPlayer(“/biglove31609_jez_512K.flv”, 475, 271,””); On last night’s episode, Barb returned to the LDS to receive her Endowment, a super-sacred ceremony that’s intended to be “secret from the world,” which is why HBO’s reenactment of it was so controversial. Before I get started, I’d just like to say that I personally believe that all organized religions are weird, including the one I was raised in, which told me that I had to eat a piece of someone’s body and drink his blood once a week, and fess up to all the bad things I’d done and thought to a man hidden in a little cubby hole. Rituals always appear odd to those who haven’t grown up with them. But that’s also because rituals are often odd, especially when they’re shrouded in secrecy. So when we got to see the Freemason-esque LDS Endowment ceremony, the secret handshakes, the costumes, the props, and the Celestial room, it was a bit jarring. Perhaps it’s because Mormonism is a fairly young religion foun
