NYT: Evangelical Filmmakers Criticized for Hiring Gay Actor

[Rose Siding]

Christian ministers were enthusiastic at the early private screenings of "End of the Spear," made by Every Tribe Entertainment, an evangelical film company. But days before the film's premiere, a controversy erupted over the casting of a gay actor that has all but eclipsed the movie and revealed fault lines among evangelicals.
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One Web log, nossobrii.blogspot .com, written by Kevin T. Bauder, president of Central Baptist Seminary in Minneapolis, stated in a Jan. 13 entry: "Granted, we must not overreact. And it would probably be an overreaction to firebomb these men's houses. But what they have done is no mistake. It is a calculated strategy."

Greg Clifford, chief operating officer of Every Tribe, said the company, based in Oklahoma, had alerted the F.B.I. there about the Web log. The F.B.I. did not return phone calls yesterday about the matter.
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"Has Focus on the Family made a strong statement against homosexuality? Absolutely," he said. "But what is the message of the product? And do we at Focus feel compelled to check on the sexual history of everyone in a movie? Did they have a D.U.I.? Did they pay their taxes?"

Mr. Hanon echoed: "If we start measuring the sin of everyone in a movie, we would never be able to make a picture because none of us would be left."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/national/02spear.html?hp&ex=1138942800&en=656f7613d09368cf&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[rooboy]

1. But to play Jesus, you need someone....

who's used to camping out with 12 guys. ;)

[meegbear]

2. Oh!!

:spank:

[bertha katzenengel]

3. Damn these ignorant, self-righteous fools!

It's all about sin! I heard that line again last year when I got together with an old, old friend.

She told me with shame that she had actually never married the man who'd just left her after nine years. (I'd always assumed she had.) So, she said, she had no right to judge me for being a lesbian.

It's ALL SIN to them, and that self-righteousness is irritating at best and murderous at worst.

[teenagebambam]

4. Wait til they find out

about Jim Caviezel.

[buff2]

5. What about him?

Is he gay,too? Oh the horrors!!! :sarcasm:

It gets on my nerves how these phoney "christians" want to run everyone else's life. Why can't they just worry about what THEY do instead of worrying about everyone else's business? It didn't used to be this way. The whackos have taken over.

[teenagebambam]

6. No proof

I'm only telling you what I've heard on the street.

[buff2]

7. Oh.......Ok.

It wouldn't matter to me if he was or wasn't. People have the right to live the way they want to and to be happy. Repukes just can't seem to accept that.

[Zenlitened]

8. Hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays....

... hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays hate the gays.

This concludes our reading from the fundie bible. Ah-men.

:puke:

[Kerrytravelers]

9. Yep, Firebombing might be a bit of an overreaction.

Better to take them out on a deserted road and beat them to death instead.

Now there's some Christian love and kindness for you. :eyes: