Deception - Topic of Concern

While the film is in post production, Ceil and I have conducted focus group meetings to unveil our project and discuss our findings. Many of the focus group participants are from the GLBT community of faith; however, we've received highly positive feedback from a diverse group of mainstream Americans in regards to the content and storyline of this documentary film.

One element of concern raised among focus group participants active in their faith communities is the issue of deception. Indeed, we acknowledge that portions of our experimental project involved deceiving this Evangelical church into thinking we're somebody other then who we truly are. We'd learned, based on our previous experiences with another Evangelical church that we attended for over a year as two open lesbian ministers, that people, especially and including "men and women of God", are geared to judge others based on their outside packages. We theorized that our experience at the first Evangelical church would have been totally different, better, had we been a heterosexual couple. The only way we would find the Truth for ourselves would be to experience the Evangelical Organization as man and woman.

As you will see documented in Faith of the Abomination, striving to maintain our own spiritual health and balance throughout this project proved to be one of the most difficult challenges we endured. The irony for us is that the concern about our deception was predominantly raised from the GLBT community of faith. Every person who is gay or lesbian understands what it's like to have to pretend to be someone we're not in order to preserve the feelings of someone we love.

We understood that undertaking this project would include answering for the controversy; however, it was all we were left with to try to find a solution to all the HATE and division propagated by "men of God" in their "houses of God". Did the end justify the means of searching for the Truth? You decide.