I've just watched the 2007 movie For the Bible Tells Me So on DVD and am profoundly moved. First, at the outrageous hatred of gays taught until fairly recently by all the Christian Churches and still taught by all but four or five of them.
And second, that even though there are some people who are so full of Christian hatred that they disavow their gay children, most parents (at least in this century) ultimately realize that they love their children too much to disavow them, and that a better choice is to simply ignore the hatred their denomination teaches or to affiliate with one of the handful of tolerant denominations.
The movie focuses on how five sets of parents came to accept their gay children, so it carries a positive message.
On the other hand, since it reviews the vicious persecution of gays by the Christian church during the last half century, it served to renew and refresh my animosity to that religion even though i continue to admire the individual Christians who can reject the hate their churches teach.
The good news, though, is that i realized that Christian hatred of gays will very soon be going into a rapid decline as the churches find a new and much improved scapegoat to rally their flocks against.
After all, who does God hate even more than fags? Yes, the Muslims!!! Sic 'em, Your Holiness! Maybe it'll take the public's mind off your coverup of your child molesters.
Ahhhh, free free, free at last!
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