WATCH: The church can forgive a man for murder, but not homosexuality in this eye-opening doc
Unforgivable, an eye-opening short film that will air as part of VICE‘s documentary series, The Short List with Suroosh Alvi.From filmmaker Marlén Viñayo, Unforgivable follows the story of Geovany, a former hitman for the infamous 18th Street Gang who is serving his sentence in a Salvadoran isolation cell.
While in prison, he quit the gang and, instead, joined an Evangelical church that has “lavished God’s forgiveness on him.” But there’s one thing that, in this church’s eyes, not even God can forgive: Being gay.The documentary gives us glimpses into both life in the prison, as well as the church in question, which believes that “God compares the homosexual to a dog, to an animal.”But, despite what he and those around him believe, Geovany has fallen in love with another man, and it’s clear that there’s a real connection between them. “‘They are going to kill us,’ I told him. ‘I don’t care.
