Mark [V. Olsen, co-creator] wants to explore Mormon church's very specific idea as to how women and men should operate in marriage. We already visited going further into the idea of the subjugation of women.

The general response, the non-Mormon, non-conservative religious response, was very, very positive, because we did what we said in our statement: We were trying to create a moment of great beauty and great art. 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.

… 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.

That said, Scheffer adds that it is unlikely Big Love will again violate the Mormon temple's sanctity.

Not to say that we’re not going to go to other places within the Mormon world and within the fundamentalist world. And within the world of family and America that are equally challenging, in some way, for certain people.