Films: For the Bible Tells Me So

  • Director: Daniel G. Karslake
  • Catergory: Documentary film
    2007, USA, 95 min

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).

Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families -- including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson -- we discover how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed 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.

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Awards:

  • 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival: Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights
  • 2007 Provincetown Film Festival: HBO Audience Award
  • 2007 Seattle International Film Festival: Best Documentary
  • 2007 Outfest: Audience Award
SCREENINGS
  • 3 Oct, 17:10, 200 RUB
    Discussion
    PIK, Hall 4

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  • 4 Oct, 12:00, 200 RUB
    Discussion
    PIK, Hall 1








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