Mormon Life says: Sounds like it will be designed to provoke controversy and target the Church.
Television polygamy drama "Big Love" returns for a fourth season in January with a gay storyline that is likely to stir up controversy in Mormon circles where homosexual relations are prohibited.
The creators of the HBO cable show, about a non-Mormon polygamous family living in Utah, plan to explore a same-sex relationship between two male characters involved in a fictional breakaway sect at the center of the series.
The theme will be developed over early episodes of "Big Love" when it returns to HBO on Jan 10, the network confirmed on Wednesday.
It follows an uproar in the U.S. gay community last year over the Mormon church's prominent support of the campaign to overthrow same-sex marriage laws in California.
"There's a provocative nature to what we're doing," co-creator Mark Olsen told Entertainment Weekly magazine.
"It's more than just the Mormon culture. We're highlighting certain aspects of the church's relationship with its gay members that I think, as the story unfolds, is going to cause no (small) amount of controversy."