New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson and his parents are among those interviewed in the award-winning documentary, directed and produced by Dan Karslake. Chrissy Gephardt, daughter of U.S. House of Representatives' former Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, and her family also featured.

Through the experiences of five "very normal, very Christian, very American families" the film helps viewers discover how people of faith handle, or sometimes tragically fail to handle, having a gay child.

The film opens the weekend of October 12 in Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Diego, and San Francisco, among other cities, one day after the October 11 observance of "National Coming Out Day."

The film asks questions including: Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate?

Other religious leaders interviewed include Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Rev. Dr. Mel White, president and co-founder of Soulforce, the Rev. Dr. Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard Divinity School; and the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the department of Religion at Chautauqua Institution.

According to the film's web site, producer/director Karslake credits Robinson as "the single most significant person who made the film happen."

"There are about six or seven verses in all of Scripture that speak to even remotely what we might call homosexual activity or homosexual conduct," Harvard's Gomes notes in the film. "[Literalists] are failing to read the Bible within the context of its authors and of its original culture."

For more information on the film and theater openings visit: http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org/