Hi everybody,

I was watching Compass last nite, for those of you who arent familiar with this program it focuses on contemporary religious, philosophical and sometimes political issues.

Last night’s program was a doco entitled “For the Bible Tells Me So” thats been made about how five American Christian families have handled having a gay child.

It was deeply moving (I cried a lot in the last quarter of the film as such a lot resonated with me) to see how each family dealt with this and it deals with families coming out as parents of gay kids.

It was a very well done doco imho. Well worth watching – if you didnt see it last nite then it is available on Compass’ website on this page:

http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s2807909.htm

It will be there for 2 weeks so see it if you can see it, its a very worthwhile doco. It does run for 1hr and 38 mins tho, so make sure you give yourself time to watch it depending on your internet connection

Alternatively you can download it and watch it when you have time. I recommend downloading it – its so worth it.

I’d like to hear what others think of this

Yep, it was a very good documentary and worth looking at. I asked my mum to watch it – awaiting her thoughts.

Hey,

Yeah this is one of the best (if not the best) documentary out there about faith and sexuality. I have it on DVD and showed it to my parents about a year and a half ago and it transformed their lives.

It’s a really good resource. You can buy the DVD from the bookshop darlinghurst or online.

It makes me really happy to hear that it was shown on ABC….it deserves to be seen!!

Ben

we have shown this last year at both our sydney and meblourne freedom 2 b[e] meetings. I think I’ve seen almost everything in this genre……this is the best by far….hence all of its awards.

Ian…..I think that quite a number of Australian TV websites can’t be viewed overseas……licensing/copyright laws.

What I find strange is that this has been around now for quite some time…..and only now the ABC compass is picking it up. they seem to be quite slow on important LGBT issues.

you are on the right newsletters now aren’t you deafant so you dont miss out on up coming events.

great to meet you last night deafant….and now I can put a face to your posts