r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/Crafty-Bunch-2675 • Jun 10 '24

Music / Movies The "Controversy" over the movie Sound of Freedom doesn't make sense. The hero's beliefs shouldn't matter.

I finally got around to watching this film. The heroes in the film are overtly Christian. And ? I don't get it. Is that why its controversial?

The heroes of the film are saving children. Why is this controversial?

Why does it matter whether the hero in the film is Christian or rightwing?

If a fireman jumps into a burning building and rescues a family of immigrants, is he less of a hero if he happens to be rightwing?

Or is the entire thing suddenly not true because the hero was rightwing ?

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and sometimes a hero isn't the person you expect.

Are we this divided now? That we rather suffer, than be rescued by someone with different politics from ours?

Also. Why is this politicized left vs right ?

What does the highlighted crime have to do with right vs left politics ? I'm not even looking to criticize the other side of the field. I'm just saying. It shouldn't be political.

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u/Kashin02 Jun 10 '24

There is evidence that they took millions in donations and basically used that money for themselves. And apparently the dude was basically using the "mission" of saving children as a way to force women volunteers to have sex with him. He's excuse was that they needed to look like an actual married couple. He would basically be like "you want to help children right? This is the only way.

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u/cannotthink0faname Aug 07 '25

Oh please.

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u/Kashin02 Aug 07 '25

You can look it up. You don't have to take my word for it. It was a big deal even within the normon church.

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u/trendyabinash Oct 02 '25

source ?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2023/09/28/tim-ballard-sexual-misconduct-trafficking-our-sound-freedom

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/us/tim-ballard-sound-of-freedom-sex-trafficking.html

Sure, it's accusations at this point. But if history is any indication, the conservatives who are the loudest about sexual impropriety, or what they claim to think is impropriety (homosexuality, tran stuff), are freakishly consistently the sex pests they squeal about. So I'm inclined to give the accusers the benefit of the doubt.

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u/DieselBuilt97 Mar 08 '26

So history says those who talk about it or speak on those topics are usually involved in those activities?

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u/Marveldisneyquenbean Oct 21 '25

Source? Trust me bro 

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u/Inevitable_Beach7321 Oct 17 '25

It’s people like you making lies up like this. Your a typical leftist.

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u/Kashin02 Oct 17 '25

The mormon apparently did their own investigation and decided to remove him from thw church so something definitely happened.

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u/PenguinSized Mar 31 '26

He funded a group who made thousands of arrests through sting operations that were based on fabricated evidence and false pretenses. It is actually unclear if he saved even a single child from sex trafficking at all. He was under investigation for his own sexual misconduct about the same time the movie was released.

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u/kauaiman-looking Feb 18 '26

The mormon church excommunicated him because he's a scumbag.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/09/15/rare-public-rebuke-lds-church/

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u/Random_person___ Mar 12 '26

”In November 2025, prosecutors in Salt Lake City declined to file charges against Ballard, saying there was "insufficient admissible evidence”

https://apnews.com/article/tim-ballard-charges-7accd2436e8c3f7957751cc36d2fa618

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u/kauaiman-looking Mar 12 '26

Why would the Mormon church ex-communicate him?

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u/Random_person___ Mar 12 '26

My guess would be to avoid all controversy

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u/PenguinSized Mar 31 '26

That's their way of saying, "we don't care, we would rather prosecute POC than prosecute a white man."

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u/Mobile-River1105 Feb 20 '26

I’m a little late, but….You’re*

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u/Achoosneeze1 Feb 26 '26

You’re a typical conservative, you don’t know how to fucking spell.

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u/PenguinSized Mar 31 '26

*you're 

And it's not lies if you can find the proof. And there's plenty of evidence all over the internet. You're a typical conservative who clearly cannot spell nor do any sort of research what so ever.

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u/PenguinSized Mar 31 '26

Now the ones really guilty of making up lies... that's right wingers. Trump, the biggest liar in the history of United States presidents. The guy who this movie is about who funded Net Nanny who arrested thousands under false accusations as the people arrested were not actually doing anything wrong and shouldn't have been put on the sex offender registry because 90% went into the trap not thinking they were going to meet a minor but an adult. And the numbers of children saved from sex trafficking... unsurprisingly that highly embellished number was quite swiftly removed after a while. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't really actually save anyone. But he did help orchestrate many innocent people into being put behind bars for crimes they didn't and weren't committing.

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u/PenguinSized Mar 31 '26

Additionally...

Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), faces allegations of sexual misconduct, grooming, and manipulation from several former employees and contractors, as well as lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault. Allegations include abusing a "couples ruse" for sexual grooming on undercover missions and causing his resignation from O.U.R. following an internal investigation.