For The Bible Tells Me So | Gene Robinson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

For The Bible Tells Me So | Gene Robinson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Superb Approach to a Complex Issue

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	For The Bible Tells Me So Gene Robinson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu First Run Features, 2008 average customer review:based on 61 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Says it all.

This documentary deals with the insane idea that you can take the Bible literally from beginning to end. It also shows how the Bible has been used to support all kinds of prejudice by selectively picking out passages and ignoring others. The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. Funny how lopsided these admonishments have become. This is a great tool to help gay people deal with religious fanatics in their lives.

Superb Approach to a Complex Issue

For the Bible Tells Me So is a superb approach to the issue of same-sex relationships and what the Bible actually says. It is well balanced, not only in presenting diverse points of view, but also in mixing human stories with those various points of view.
I highly recommend this film to anyone who wants to actually learn more, not only about what the Bible actually says, but about the experiences of people are who are gay or lesbian, and those who are their family members.

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Best Thing I've Seen So Far!

I have been looking for resources to help deal with the issues of sexuality in the church. I am a campus chaplain and a parish minister. We discuss these issues all the time. I have found that the conversation improves when it is personal more than when it is academic. This powerful film presents individual stories in a way that invites us (the church) into being part of the solution, not simply more of the problem. Kudos to the courageous families who told their stories, and to the sensitive artistic film-makers who brought us this treasure!

For the Bible Tells Me So

This is one of the best movies I have ever seen regarding Gay and Lesbian people. This should be mandatory for all schools and for all families, regardless of whether or not they "think" they have a family member who is gay.

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powerful stories, predictable story line

Don't watch this documentary film if you expect anything like a balanced treatment of homosexuality and Christianity. It's aggressively polemical, it incorporates all the worst examples of Christian hate and extremism, it omits any treatment of gay extremists like you might see in San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade, and in several instances it presents "experts" without identifying them as aggressively pro-gay (eg, Peter Gomes of Harvard). But there's a good reason to watch this film, nevertheless, because it presents the personal stories of five families, without exception all of which are deeply Christian, and how they dealt with the news that their kids are gay. Two of the families are famous-- Chrissy Gephardt is the daughter of two-time presidential candidate and Missouri congressman Dick Gephardt, and Gene Robinson became the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church. Jake comes from the suburbs of Minneapolis, Tonia is an African-American who grew up on a dirt road in North Carolina before going to Yale, and then Anna was from Arkansas. These families run the Christian gamut -- United Church of Christ, African-American, Lutheran, Catholic, and fundamentalist, and they respond to their child's coming out in different ways. It's a shame that the film makers resorted to predictable polemic instead of trusting the power of these deeply moving stories.

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