A few weeks ago I took out a trial subscription to Netflix.
To be honest, mostly I’ve been watching Andromeda.
I have, however, also watched for the BIBLE tells me so.
I was very moved by it. If you get a chance to see it then I highly recommend it.
There’s a trailer for it here:
The synopsis on the web site says:
Does God really condemn loving homosexual relationships? Is the chasm separating Christianity from gays and lesbians too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate? These questions and more are answered in this award-winning documentary, which brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture – and reveals that religious anti-gay bias is based almost solely upon a misinterpretation of the Bible.
Through the experiences of five very normal, Christian, American families – including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson – we discover how people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child or family member.
Offering healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity, this landmark film “boldly takes on a loaded topic and examines it both intellectually and emotionally; the result may well leave you blinking away a few tears.” (Seattle Times)
Some words of Desmond Tutu here:
I can't, for the life of me, imagine that God would say:
“I’m going to punish you because you are black. You should have been white.
I will punish you because you are a woman. You should have been a man.
I punish you because you are homosexual. You ought to have been heterosexual.”
I can’t. I can’t for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.
If you read the comments that people have left along with the above video clips there are the usual polemical attitudes.
Some blame every problem in the world on religion. Some remain adamant that if a person is gay then they are hell bound.
I think the same people might well say the same kinds of things apply to transgendered people.
And of course, I think that life isn’t so simple.
