Thanks for your time on the phone today. It couldn’t have come at a better time, as I said in the call, on the same day we got rejected from Focus on the Family and the WYSIWYG film festival! American Film Renaissance was pretty unreceptive too — when I called to tell them about Shaky Town they said it was unlikely that they would show that sort of subject matter as it might offend the theater owners who are hosting the festival! Thank God for Vision Forum! —Colin Gunn

Why are Christian film festivals often willing to present films which merely wrap cultural paganism in Scripture verses, but terrified of those films which boldly address current, controversial issues with biblical precision?

The SAICFF is not a “conservative” film festival. It is not even a “family” film festival. The SAICFF is a Christian film festival committed to encouraging the development of an independent film market that produces epistemologically self-conscious Christian films that will advance the kingdom of God and bless the Christian family.

Consequently, when the judges for the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival received the edgy and innovative film Shaky Town from the Gunn brothers, we knew that we had something special on our hands — a fearless film on an issue of direct concern to the Church and nation. Produced by two Scots, Shaky Town takes the viewers to the very streets of San Francisco, interviewing Christian pastors and their militant homosexual persecutors.

In light of the moral failure of the New Orleans police department, made infamous in light of the recent post-Katrina activity, I am reminded of those sequences in Shaky Town in which the Gunn brothers interviewed San Francisco police officers observing public, criminal acts of indecency and perversion, yet admitting on camera their unwillingness to enforce the law. (NOTE: Though Shaky Town contains mature subject matter, it is very deliberately filmed and carefully presented so as not to in any way defile the viewer.)

The homosexual movement is militant, wicked, and committed to the annihilation of the Christian family. Its presence as an accepted part of our political and social landscape is an invitation for divine judgment on our nation. Our position must be one of genuine love for those individuals lost in this sin of moral perversion. This love manifests through (a) a charitable Gospel witness which seeks the souls of the lost; (b) utter intolerance for the abomination of the acts of homosexuality and the sin of effeminacy in men; (c) a rejection of all Hollywood and entertainment media presentations of homosexuality as anything other than reprehensible; and (d) a resolute and aggressive public witness against the advancement of the homosexual political movement. We are not to “own the curse” of homosexuality; to lay over and play dead to the rise of homosexuality; or to simply vent and lament over the problem.

I am so grateful for the makers of Shaky Town for building the independent film movement through their own winsome, charitable, but fearless exposure of the militant homosexual movement. (To learn about Shaky Town, go to www.shakytownthemovie.com.)