Regarding Jacob Ricks' letter of Dec. 26: I've seen the film "Latter Days" twice (once in the theater and once on DVD) and I fail to see Mr. Ricks' concern. The senior companion states, in no uncertain terms, that homosexuality is a sin, that gay and rights do not belong in the same sentence.
When the junior companion kisses the L.A. party boy, he is sent home and excommunicated by his father, the stake president. The ward does the requisite gossiping. His mother refuses to look him in the eye and Dad immerses himself in church work rather than deal with the issues at home. After a failed suicide attempt, he is sent to a reparative therapy center.
Of course, he does go back to L.A. in search of his sinful love interest, but his family in Idaho is not mentioned again, indicative of the shunning necessary to cut off the son who turned his back on God and family by pursuing a sinful life.
You see, it has all sorts of good family values, if you just know how to watch it.
William H. Munk
Salt Lake City