“Breaking Dawn” takes an old-fashioned view of marriage

Sparkling alabaster skin and tanned abs don’t begin to describe the obsession the Twilight Saga has created. The next installment, “Breaking Dawn: Part One, ” will only add fuel to the catastrophic “Twilight” fire with a controversial twist that will possibly make it the most heated film yet.

“Twilight” fans, or Twihards as Urban Dictionary calls them, have a taste for brutality, lashing out at all those who slander their pseudo-religion.

There are too many cases  in which readers treat the series less like works of fiction and more like holy scriptures. It’s as if there was some sort of addictive drug hidden in the text. The fans seem to cling to their favorite characters as though under some magic spell, dividing friends, families and marriages into two categories: Team Edward or Team Jacob.

    However, the only subliminal messaging Stephenie Meyer, the author of “Twilight,” is guilty of burying into her text is that of her Mormon values.

Attempting to promote wholesome relationships among her fan base, Meyer waited until the final book in the series to depict her main characters’ consummating their love. In accordance to Meyer’s beliefs, Bella and Edward did not engage in intercourse until the two were wedded in holy matrimony.

These messages have acted as motifs throughout the novels to promote Mormon ideals for girls to be abstinent and wait for the right blood-sucking guy. Well, thank you, Momma Meyer, but by the looks of the trailer, the intimacy shared by the newly weds looks like anything but “safe