One of my biggest pleasures throughout the year is attending the Doc Soup documentary film series. Last night's film was a barn burner. Here's the film's synopsis, lifted straight from the web site:
Through the experiences 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 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.
What makes the film absolutely brilliant is that the filmmaker manages to find a common ground between fundamentalism and homosexuality, by chiselling away at ignorance, until the only plausible outcome is acceptance.
Forget Al Gore. My new favourite politician is Dick Gephardt, whose shining love for his lesbian daughter left the entire audience in tears.
You can see For the Bible Tells Me So on the big screen at The Royal Cinema on College Street this weekend. There are a number of showings planned.
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