
"Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate?
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival, Dan Karslake's provocative, entertaining documentary brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture, and in the process reveals that Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias is based almost solely upon a significant (and often malicious) misinterpretation of the Bible. As the film notes, most Christians live their lives today without feeling obliged to kill anyone who works on the Sabbath or eats shrimp (as a literal reading of scripture dictates)."- First Run Features
Read more: http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org/index2.htm
Rookie director Dan Karslake is tackling a subject that is splitting the Church apart all over the world. The topic of homosexuality is one of the most important issues that the Church will encounter this century... it is also one of the most taboo. Recently, Archbishop Desmond Tutu commented on the topic of homosexuality saying, "The Church has been fiddling whilst, as it were, our Rome was burning".
This documentary is not going to support the “traditional” views of the Church. The Church is going to need a damn good answer to this documentary and others that will, undoubtedly, follow.
This is a “must see”.
3 comments:
Hopefully a knee jerk reaction that condemns without listening/thinking won't happen...hey a guy can dream right?
A man can dream... a man can dream...
My complaint is with the design of their website!
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