Cutting Through the Cultural Chaos -- The Meaning of "Brokeback Mountain"
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005 at 1:17 am ET

Sometimes, it's the contradictory headlines that tell the story. Last week, USA Today released a prominent article with the headline: "'Brokeback' Rides Into the Mainstream." The same day, The Los Angeles Times featured a story with the headline, "Can 'Brokeback Mountain' Move the Heartland?." The two articles were poles apart.

USA Today pushed the movie, famously featuring a long-term homosexual romance between two cowboys, as "charting new frontiers." Yet, those new frontiers are only among the cultural elites clustered in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The movie isn't showing elsewhere.

The rest-Albert Mohler