For The Bible Tells Me So

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Product Description ------------------- After working on the PBS show IN THE LIFE, Daniel Karslake directs this documentary that reconciles sexuality with the Bible. FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO focuses on five Christian families with gay children, including the family of former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt. Director Daniel Karslake Featured Desmond Tutu, Steve Greenberg, Dick Gephardt Special Features: Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital English Runtime: 98 minutes Year of Release: 2007. Additional Features ------------------- For the Bible Tells Me So is a compassionate and inful documentary about the contemporary face of an old conflict between Christian fundamentalists and gay and lesbian people. The film looks deep into the hearts of several families--a few of them quite famous--that have struggled with making sense of having a sexual son or daughter in the fold. At the same time, For the Bible Tells Me So is a deconstruction of thin arguments that the Bible actually condemns sexuality in a few passages and through the story of Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. A number of clerics and scholars explain the cultural and historical context for Old Testament quotes routinely referenced as arguments against sexuality, and point out translation confusion about the real meaning of the Sodom story. Unquestionably, the most compelling part of the film is its focus on various families, including that of former U.S. presidential candidate Dick Gephardt, who has a lesbian daughter for whose safety he worries. Also among the interviewees is Gene Robinson, a gay man who became bishop of New Hampshire’s Episcopal church in 2004, and his parents, as well as a gay teen whose folks joined him on the front line in protest of their church’s negative stance on gays. Not every story is affirmative: there are tragedies within these tales, too, as well as an indictment of so-called cures that supposedly banish the gay drive from sexual men and women. --Tom Keogh