Large Turnout for "For the Bible Tells me So" Screening and Discussion

Many people came to Christ Lutheran Church across from the state capitol to view the film "For the Bible Tells Me So" – a critical view of religious attitudes toward GLBT people and how five religious families confronted their beliefs after discovering one of their children was gay.

"After the film, participants told their stories to and asked questions of Minnesota couple Randi and Phil Reitan, one of the families featured in the film, filmmaker Dan Karslake, and OutFront Minnesota Anti-Violence Program Manager Rebecca Waggoner Kloek. Participants spoke of the pain of being turned away by religious family members and the exclusion of the "religious left" in the public dialogue about GLBT people and their fight for equality."

But Dan Karslake also spoke about the hopefulness brought about by adult gay children leading their parents into thinking more deeply about GLBT equality. He told the story of one of the lesbian women in his film calling him sobbing, to say that her mother (who is also in the film) had finally asked about her partner for the first time in nine years.

See the film at upcoming OutFront Minnesota
co-sponsored screenings