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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:44
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: A timely and poignant documentary.
Theatrical Release:2007
Synopsis: Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? 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... [More]
The point that the homophobic right is picking and choosing which parts of the Bible to follow, and which verses to look at in the context in which they were written, is both terribly familiar and rudimentarily argued.
The Bible Tells Me So
An important and edifying documentary that can convince many to open their hearts and their minds to support gay and lesbian equality.
Progressive clergy provide enough historical context to neutralize the handful of Bible verses prohibiting homosexual acts, but Karslake never confronts the broader issues of sexuality and procreation that bedevil even moderate Christians.
This rational, human and very serious documentary by Daniel Karslake gets at the historical distortions of the Good Book as well as the ease with which holy writings have been used in America to propagate hate.
Top CriticFor the Bible Tells Me So is never less than lively and stimulating in its arguments, even detouring into a very amusing cartoon dealing with the evidence that sexual orientation is biologically determined.
Karslake has made a powerful film ...it addresses the fulcrum of the religious right's objection to homosexuality without attacking those who hold those beliefs.
Daniel Karslake's remarkable documentary boldly takes on a loaded topic -- Christianity and homosexuality -- and examines it both intellectually and emotionally; the result may well leave you blinking away a few tears.
You'll have plenty of ammunition next time you want to tell some Bible-thumper where they can stick their Leviticus.
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Its main surprise is the compassion shown toward everyone, on all sides of the debate. It does not vilify those who vilify gays.
Admirable and moving.
Top CriticThere are some heart-wrenching, tragic stories told, but the vast majority of the people Karslake shows us are genuine loving souls, who have embraced their children for who they are.
[For] The Bible Tells Me So must be the first liberal documentary to resist Bible-bashing for Bible-thumping.
An informative, heartbreaking documentary about intolerance and manipulation, sadly and assuredly never to be seen by the people who need this info the most.
While the movie seems tilted toward Christian families attempting to work through issues of having a gay son or daughter, "For the Bible Tells Me So" fills a yet another heretofore blank chapter on Gay rights.
With impressive conviction, vast intelligence and even humor, Karslake has made a vital, stimulating wor
For the Bible Tells Me So doesn't follow the formula. That's just one of the reasons it works well as a film and a lesson about, as one open-minded preacher puts it, what the Bible "reads" about what it supposedly "says" about homosexuality.
Here's hoping Karslake's film won't simply preach to the converted.
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