'Brokeback Mountain' was widely expected to collect most of the prizes at the 78th Academy Awards (The Oscars) on March 5, 2006.
The film topped the pile with 8 nominations – and bookmakers William Hill made it their hottest favourite in history to win best film, at odds of 1/8.
As it turned out, it collected 3 Oscars, but missed out on the top prize - Best Picture Award.
Not that there is any room for complacence.
Those most closely involved with the production of this film realise the statement they have made:
• Director, Ang Lee: "I just had to do it. It told me so much about what love is about."
• Script writer, Diana Ossana has claimed the film was changing attitudes and starting a broader conversation about the nature of love.
She is correct – however, the 'love' this movie celebrates is perverse.
Though styled in the media as "a cowboy romance," 'Brokeback Mountain' is a story in which two ranch hands engage in a sodomite relationship, even after they go on to have wives and families.
It unashamedly promotes the practice of sodomy, portraying the family as a hostile environment and casting those who reject homosexuality as old-fashioned, naïve, and oppressive.
That such a movie can be acclaimed typifies the wickedness of the days in which we live.
Romans 1:32 is surely an appropriate soundtrack!
[NB. Parts of this message are a reworking and updating of material found in another sermon in this series, 'The Pink Plague'].