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Faith, orientation, gender cross in new films

Started by LostInTime, July 20, 2007, 09:21:56 AM

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John Horn and Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times

Even though some of these movies have been in the works for a long time -- the director of "The Believers," a documentary about a transgender gospel choir in San Francisco, filmed the chorus over the course of five years -- they are arriving at a propitious time. The ordination of a gay bishop and the blessing of same-sex couples is fracturing the Anglican and Episcopal communions. Pope Benedict XVI has said that same-sex marriages are "pseudo-matrimony." And the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recently kicked out a gay pastor in Atlanta who was in a relationship with another man.
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