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“8: The Mormon Proposition” to Premiere at Sundance
Documentary to Feature Affirmation's Executive Director David Melson
December 2009
Narrated by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black, “8: The Mormon Proposition,” will premiere next month in Park City at the Sundance Film Festival.
“It's really well done, and it's really thorough,” festival director John Cooper said. “[Cowan] goes very deep, into the Mormon Church and its relationship to the anti-gay-marriage movement, all the way back almost before it really started, all the way back to the '90s.”
David Melson, executive director of Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, and Mormon author Carol Lynn Pearson are two of the people featured in the documentary.
The movie chronicles the 2008 campaign for Prop. 8, which overturned a court decision to allow same-sex marriage in California. In the film, Cowan tracks the LDS Church's involvement with the Yes on 8 forces -- and reveals what the film’s producer/editor Steven Greenstreet calls “an orchestrated strategic campaign” by the church to pass similar ballot measures in other states over the past two decades.
The documentary also features Utah State Senator Chris Buttars, who is a Mormon. In the film, Buttars states that gay people practice “pig sex,” compares gay activists to Muslim radicals, and called the gay-rights movement "probably the greatest threat to America.”
The film will be screened on January 24, 25, 27, 29, and 30. The Jan. 27 screening is at 6:00 PM at The Tower in Salt Lake City. All screenings require tickets. For more information on how to get tickets, visit http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/8themormonproposition_sundance2010.
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