I meant yucky -- it's really, really, really, really, really yucky. You know, really yucky

Blogger Andrew Sullivan links (a few entries down) to two Catholic News Service reviews of the gay cowboy flick, "Brokeback Mountain." Vatican officials apparently found the first write-up to be too favourable, so they changed it: "Editor's Note: 'Brokeback Mountain,' originally rated L (limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling), has been reclassified O -- morally offensive. This has been done because the serious weight of the L rating -- which restricts films in that category to those who can assess, from a Catholic perspective, the moral issues raised by a movie -- is, unfortunately, misunderstood by many. Because there are some in this instance who are using the L rating to make it appear the church's... position on homosexuality is ambiguous, the classification has been revised specifically to address its moral content."

And from blogger Keith Boykin: "But there's one thing they haven't said about the film that needs to be said. If these characters had been black, they would have called this movie a film about the down low. Instead, they're calling it a classic love story. It's for that reason that I love 'Brokeback Mountain' and I hate it. I love Brokeback as a film that is able to move beyond the down low pathology, but I hate what it says explicitly and implicitly about the double standards in America based on race and sexual orientation."