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Sundance Festival Screens “For the Bible Tells Me So”
January 2007
From the Sundance Film Festival Guide
U.S.A., 2006, 95 Minutes, color
Director:
Daniel Karslake
Screenwriter:
Daniel Karslake, Nancy Kennedy
Are homosexuals welcome in the kingdom of God? For centuries, the Bible has been used to sanction discrimination, repression, and injustice. It has justified slavery, empowered segregation, and excused the subjugation of women--and the tradition continues. Same tactics, new target. Today a handful of religious passages are constantly exploited to validate hatred and violence against homosexuals.
Filmmaker Daniel Karslake explores the way religious conservatives have systematically misled the public into believing that the Bible forbids homosexuality and how this campaign of misinterpretation continues to stigmatize the gay community and threaten America's rapidly diminishing separation of church and state.
With a keen sense of irony, Karslake focuses on the family. Through
the unfolding of five very moving stories of Christian families with
a gay or lesbian member and the reflections of major biblical scholars,
the film examines what, if anything, the Bible actually says about
homosexuality as we know it today. Skillfully constructed, painstakingly
researched, wielding whimsical animation and a proudly unapologetic
point of view, For the Bible Tells Me So explores the intersection
of religion and homosexuality in America today, concluding that, perhaps,
hatred is the greatest abomination of all.— David Courier
Links:
Video Interview with director + Clips from the movie
Podcast Interview with director Daniel Karslake
Official Site
Screening Times
Sunday , Jan 21 8:30 PM Holiday Village Cinema II BIBLE212N
Monday , Jan 22 12:15 PM Holiday Village Cinema III BIBLE223D
Tuesday , Jan 23 6:45 PM Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC BIBLE23BE
Thursday , Jan 25 2:30 PM Library Center Theatre BIBLE25LA
Friday , Jan 26 11:30 PM Holiday Village Cinema II BIBLE262L
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