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There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Blistering performances.

For the Bible tells me so is an eye opening documentary, looking at the conflicts between homosexuality and Christianity. Though most viewers by now will probably have a decent understanding of the Christian views on homosexuality, I believe most won't realize how the negative views truly impact those who are "different". The documentary looks at the moving stories of homosexual individuals and their families, which adds a personal touch and leaves the viewer with a sort of guilt, that their own society is treating people in such a way. The documentary is shocking to say the least. It throws mind boggling statistics, one that stood out to me was that in 1967, 2/3 Americans look upon homosexuals with disgust, discomfort, or fear and that 1/10 says hatred, as well as heart wrenching stories about individuals who were so desperate for acceptance, married their opposite sex despite the fact they were gay. I do consider it to be a lengthy documentary and it could've dragged along, however the diverse and interesting content kept it moving. It thoroughly expressed the Bible and the Christian views on homosexuality, and is both insightful and informative. I think it's a film that everyone should see as it gives a whole new perspective to what the bibles says.

The movie "For the Bible Tells Me So" was a very eye-opening movie. It gave me insight to the kind of hatred that Christian homosexuals have to put up with in their community, as well as overcoming their families initial negative views towards their sexual orientation. The Christian homosexuals in general, are regarded by many in the film as an "abomination". All the families are of an intense Christian background and when they find that their children are gay or lesbian, it changes their lives. What was very interesting in the film is how it is uncovered that the passage that states having a relationship with another man is wrong, is also surrounded by other verses that for example state you shouldn't eat pork, or shrimp. People have taken the "abomination" term, and totally twisted its true meaning as stated in the story. When it is used in the Bible as one of the men in the movie who was interviewed, states that it was supposed to be used so that people at the time would follow the code to become more holy. These were codes, and were not meant to be taken to full worship. Americans have corrupted the meaning of the Bible in this sense and it will be had for them to change heir minds on this topic now that this mentality has been around for many years now.

I didn't realize just how many people hate Homosexuals and how they treat them. This is NOT RIGHT! They have to right to marry the one they love, the Bible's basis is to LOVE! If that person who you feel completes you and you want to spend the rest of your life with is of the same gender then GO RIGHT AHEAD AND MARRY THEM! BE HAPPY! YOLO! This movie tackles one of the most prevalent issues in todays modern society. I was extremely glad that this movie takes a look at so many different cases of LGBT people and their struggles, from those for whom it was very hard, even leading to suicide, for those who had help along the way, and for those that fought tooth and nail to have their rights and be accepted. This movie is what I hope that everybody will be able to watch and understand. This movie shows the opinions of many people for and against Homosexual relationships, but I explains with actual evidence why Homosexuality shouldn't be condemned and accepted and why people are misreading quotes from the Bible and now understanding them. This movie also explains WHY people hate homosexuals, they really cover most of the bases and I think this is a film that all should see.I learned many statistics watching this movie and I loved the animation of the reasons why homosexuality should be accepted in really simple terms so that people of all educations can understand it while still showing important facts right under out noses that some people are to lazy to see.I think the most surprising thing that I learned was that people are quoting sets laws that they themselves don't follow and are to narrow minded to think that maybe just maybe there is more to the Bible than what reads. Hypocrites are what surround us.

While this is a nicely encouraging docu, I wasn't all that happy with the cartoon in the middle illustrating how science suggests homosexuality is part of our genetic imprint. Maybe that's because I'm from Germany and half gypsy, which under the laws of the most unfortunate period of that country's history would have meant that I am ethnically impure and therefore not fit to live; racial biology in Nazi Germany heavily relied on sociological and physical surveys to prove a link between criminal or anti-social behavior and race, as a justification for eradicating these elements. I therefore consider the gay gene theory a rather double-edged sword: while it might counter the assessment of many fundamentalist Christians that being gay is a choice, and therefore 'curable', it could also be used as an argument for total annihilation if times should ever get as rough as in, say, the Weimar Republic: they can't help being perverts, so let's kill them all (and enrich ourselves with their possessions in the process).Fact is, sexuality is a very complex thing, in which the difference between choice and innate need cannot be clearly drawn; it would be rather dull if it was. Think of your own sexual preferences: don't we all have things we'd rather do or not do? How much of this is part of our nature, and how much of it is part of our choice? It's impossible to say, right? So it would seem to me that a more neutral approach might have been more fitting here: so fundamentalist Christians say gays make a 'choice' to be gay. Well, so what? Even if they make a choice, does that hurt anyone? Should anybody be ostracized for the choices they make? And while the stories of the interviews were nicely chosen in respect to the encouraging message they are meant to deliver, I can't help but thinking that a lot of the realities of gay life have been omitted. After all, what drives people to question their homosexuality and regard it as something that must be cured? Yes, of course, church plays a very important role in this. But all guys I have known who tried to 'reform' themselves did so because they felt as outcasts in the gay community itself, either because they felt not attractive enough or because they couldn't cope with the difficulty of establishing a real relationship; I know one guy who got married to a woman for the latter purpose, and he says he's happy. I also know the counter example. So I would say that it's neither in my nor in anybody else's judgment to say reform is only denial, as long as nobody gets pressured into doing it.But OK, that dilemma is not what the film is about, it's directed towards an audience influenced by or familiar with fundamentalist Christians, and as such it does a really nice job to point out the futility of their arguments. Only if you're gay, not really religious and just watching this to see what makes these people tick, you're none the wiser: the real question to me is why homophobes draw on that issue so much. Like, isn't there enough other stuff that's more indisputably wrong with America that they should be more concerned about? The hate is in the film, but I still don't get where it all comes from.