For the Bible Tells Me So
Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? With special guest facilitator Gail Simmons.
Sault Ste Marie
Friday August 15, 2008
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Algoma University (1520 Queen Street East) in the Great West Life Amphitheatre (Room NW 200)
United States / 2007 / 95 Minutes
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.
Special Guest Facilitator: Gail Simmons
Gail Simmons was employed as a dairy farmer and a forester before attending seminary in 2002. She is an ordained minister in the Metropolitan Community Churches (www.mcchurch.org).
She and her girlfriend moved back to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 2005, where Gail works as a church planter (www.weathervaneministries.org). She is also the interim pastor of Angels of Hope MCC in Green Bay and Appleton, WI (www.aohmcc.org). Gail lives in Kingsford, MI with her girlfriend Myra, their three dogs, and cat.
Featuring
Bishop Gene Robinson
Imogene & Victor Robinson
Brenda, David and Tonia Poteat
Jake and Britta Reitan
Chrissy, Jane and Dick Gephardt
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Reverend Peter Gomes
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Reverend Jimmy Creech
Produced and Directed by
Daniel Karslake
Co-Produced and Edited by
Nancy Kennedy
Co-Produced by
Helen Mendoza
Music Scott Anderson
Mark Suozzo
Executive Producers
Michael Huffington
Bruce Bastian
Robin Voss
Robert Greenbaum
Keith Lewis
Co-Executive Producers
Karen Ellis
Sandra Hartness
Michael A. Leppen
Associate Producers
Sandra Hartness, Karen Ellis
Music Supervisor
Susan Jacobs
Researcher
Lewanne Jones
Production Consultant
Susan Franks
Camera
Kevin Bond
Leonard Chamblee
Tyrone Edwards
Tom Fahey
Mark Falstad
Bob Gunter
Guy Hernandez
Greg Hoerdemann
Brian Knappenberger
Bruce Liffiton
Jared Manders
Jim Mathers
Kat Patterson
Dave Roberson
Mike Simon
Rob Van Praag
Brad Waigt
Ian Young
Production Sound
Tom Alford
Gerard Bonnette
Carl Franson
David Hand
Heidi Hesse
Derek Johnston
Mark Maloof
David Poole
Simon Woodward
