"For the Bible Tells Me So" is filmmaker Daniel Karslake's effort to reconcile homosexuality and scripture. The film was exhibited at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

In this film we meet five Christian families, each with a gay or lesbian child. Parents talk about their marriages and church-going, their children's childhood and coming out, their reactions, and changes over time. The stories told by these nine parents and four adult children alternate with talking heads - Protestant and Jewish theologians - and with film clips of fundamentalist preachers and pundits and news clips of people in the street. They discuss scripture and biblical scholarship. A thesis of the film is that much of Christianity's homophobia represents a misreading of scripture, a denial of science, and an embrace of quack psychology.

Daemen College is located at 4380 Main Street in Amherst, New York. The film screening will be in Schenk Hall Room 107. Friday April 25, 2008 at 7:00p.m. •Tim Moran