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I want to see this film!
Jan. 25th, 2007 06:03 pmFor the Bible Tells Me So
"If you’ve ever felt irked – or worse – by those few biblical passages about “abomination,” or if they’ve ever put an awkward distance – or worse – between you and a friend or colleague or loved one or a favorite aunt or uncle, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO is a film that you absolutely must see. Director Daniel Karslake’s inclusive approach ingeniously reconciles homosexuality, biology and scripture through the prism of the family; indeed, most of the film is devoted to five very normal, very Christian, very American families – families with names like Gephardt and Robinson – and how they handled learning that they had a gay child. FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO is neither a pedantic screed nor an academic treatise, yet its theology is informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard’s Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech. The movie even has a cartoon."
It's playing at Sundance now. I hope it comes to a theater near me.
Read about the background of the film here -- it's incredibly inspiring.
On a semi-related note, I saw an item in Entertainment Weekly that Alan Cumming married Grant Schaffer a few weeks ago in London. (Here is a story on it I just googled.) And I almost passed it by without much thought, but then I thought, wow -- good for EW for inserting a gay marriage item into their "Marriages" column just like a straight marriage! It's that kind of thing that will make gay marriage a reality someday. When it becomes something that you see everywhere, with no great distinction, the bigots won't have a leg left to stand on. :-)
"If you’ve ever felt irked – or worse – by those few biblical passages about “abomination,” or if they’ve ever put an awkward distance – or worse – between you and a friend or colleague or loved one or a favorite aunt or uncle, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO is a film that you absolutely must see. Director Daniel Karslake’s inclusive approach ingeniously reconciles homosexuality, biology and scripture through the prism of the family; indeed, most of the film is devoted to five very normal, very Christian, very American families – families with names like Gephardt and Robinson – and how they handled learning that they had a gay child. FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO is neither a pedantic screed nor an academic treatise, yet its theology is informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard’s Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech. The movie even has a cartoon."
It's playing at Sundance now. I hope it comes to a theater near me.
Read about the background of the film here -- it's incredibly inspiring.
On a semi-related note, I saw an item in Entertainment Weekly that Alan Cumming married Grant Schaffer a few weeks ago in London. (Here is a story on it I just googled.) And I almost passed it by without much thought, but then I thought, wow -- good for EW for inserting a gay marriage item into their "Marriages" column just like a straight marriage! It's that kind of thing that will make gay marriage a reality someday. When it becomes something that you see everywhere, with no great distinction, the bigots won't have a leg left to stand on. :-)
