The heated discussion about the Big Love temple scene died down pretty quickly after it aired, but here’s an interview at the LA Times with one of the show’s creators that gives one view of things.

You can read the whole interview if you’re a fan of the show (one nugget: there will be a Season 4). Here’s the paragraph of interest:

You got a lot of press about your depiction of a Mormon temple ceremony before the episode even aired. What was the reaction like afterwards?

It was very interesting, because I think the furor died down very quickly. There were a lot of people, first of all, the general response, the non-Mormon, non-conservative religious response was very very positive, because we did what we really said in our statement, we were trying to create a moment of great beauty and great art. Now, it could be debated whether or not the Mormons are always going to feel that we crossed a boundary by showing a secret ceremony. And that’s always going to feel like it’s a tremendous disrespect to them. I don’t think that that’s going to change. … The real thing was that the furor died down almost immediately, and I only have to assume that was because we handled it with so much respect and dignity, in context of it being a very sacred, very holy ceremony.

[Ellipsis in original.]