For the Bible Tells Me So

For a long time the Bible has been misused to support prejudice; apartheid, segregation, slavery, and the second-class citizenship of women.

Now it’s being used/misused to condemn gay people. It’s an old trick. Fundamentalist Christians have been using it throughout the ages. Now they’re doing it again. In viciously homophobic places like Jamaica, Uganda, and Nigeria, among others, you can be killed for same sex love by Christians preaching the Bible.

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival, Dan Karslake’s provocative, entertaining documentary attempts to reconcile homosexuality and Biblical scripture, and in the process reveals that Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias is based solely upon a significant (and often malicious) interpretation 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.

Through the experience of five very normal, very Christian , very American families – including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson – we discover how insightful people of faith handle the realisation of having a gay child. With commentary by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard’s Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, For The Bible Tells Me So offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.