Tag: american heretics

Outfest 2019 kicks off this week in Los Angeles, and in honor of the return of the fantastic queer film festival, we’ve picked out some of last year’s big winners to round out this week’s Culture Club, and to help whet the appetite for this year’s festival. All are available to stream, and offer up a great mix of LGBTQ stories with laughter and tears. In the Trump era, Christianity has more of a reputation for hypocrisy and persecution rather...

The countdown to the July 12 release of American Heretics continues, and we just scored an exclusive clip. The new documentary film by directors Jeanine and Catherine Butler follows a group of ministers in rural Oklahoma working to kill the notion of the Republican Party as the “Christian” party. The movie focuses on several Oklahoma churches, including the Mayflower Church which started performing same-sex marriages long before they became legal in the state. Doing so sent a message of the church...

The first trailer for the new documentary American Heretics has just landed. The film from directors Jeanine and Catherine Butler follows a group of ministers in rural Oklahoma who work to dispell the notion of the Republican Party as the “Christian” party. In Oklahoma, supporting liberalism or the Democratic Party is synonymous with heresy. These ministers want to separate the intolerance of the GOP from Christians by working toward racial equality, performing same-sex marriages and hosting immigrants in church services. American Heretics...