The documentary takes a witty and compassionate view of what coming out in a religious family feels like, both to adult gay kids and their bewildered parents.

| May 26, 2020

A masterfully crafted, deeply moving work that could spark much needed conversations.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 6, 2019

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Karslake reveals ways Scripture has been used to discriminate against homoexuality, and shows how inaccurate interpretations of the Bible cause widespread despair and the destruction of lives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2009

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 16, 2008

Excessivamente convencional em sua estrutura e contendo sua parcela de graves tropeos (a seqncia em animao), este filme ainda assim merece aplausos pela eloqncia de seus entrevistados, pelo teor de sua mensagem e pela paixo com que a defende.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2008

One message rings clear throughout the occasionally muddled but always emotionally sweeping film: A true abomination is twisting the words of Scripture to match bigotry.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 17, 2008

A thoughtful look at the complicated relationship between Christianity and homosexuality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2008

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.

| Jan 11, 2008

The film offers proof that religion and homosexuality need not be mutually exclusive: Good Christians can love and accept their gay brothers and sisters, and gay people can still be religious.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 12, 2007

A gut-wrenching depiction of what truly defines Family Values.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 4, 2007

The movie's serious, wide-ranging look at a divisive subject is not guaranteed to settle disputes, only to prompt discussion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2007

This is a compelling, thought-provoking portrait of a quiet challenge rising within America's churches.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2007

An informative, heartbreaking documentary about intolerance and manipulation, sadly and assuredly never to be seen by the people who need this info the most.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 1, 2007

The Bible Tells Me So

| Oct 30, 2007

If imperfect, the film is also necessary.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 27, 2007

For the Bible Tells Me So is a great documentary and an even better motion picture, and as a testament to faith and family I can't imagine a finer example than this.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007