My Big Gay Jewish Conversion | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Simon Atkins is on a personal journey for BBC Three exploring different religious attitudes to being gay. He wants to fi | dG1fcDIzNTZQMS13MTQ

Transcript

00:01My name is Simon Atkins and I'm Catholic.

00:05I was raised in the west of Ireland on a diet of communion, confession and chastity.

00:16That was until I realised I was gay and could never get married in the eyes of God.

00:23I'm a celibate man, a single man.

00:25Just because you are not married does not mean that you have a life without love.

00:30But I want sex and marriage with the love.

00:33Being Catholic doesn't seem relevant to my life anymore.

00:40Then I met this guy, Matthew.

00:43He's Jewish and I realised there might be a better option for me.

00:47Every human being is a Christian in the image of God.

00:49Male, female, Jew, non-Jew, gay, straight.

00:52Nobody should ever be treated as a thing.

00:54We weren't a bald human being.

00:56To find out if Judaism is more tolerant of gay men, I'm travelling to the Middle East and its birthplace, Israel.

01:06I love the fact that I can go free here.

01:09The whole city is a gay club.

01:11Bye.

01:12But as I delve deeper, I uncover another side to Judaism.

01:18Just camera down.

01:20A man who sleeps with another man, most he must. Die who shall die.

01:26It's an abomination, that's all. And that's all I have to say.

01:30Where being gay can be a matter of life or death.

01:33We put out a knife and started running and stabbing.

01:40It's a challenge, it's a challenge.

01:42It's a challenge, it's a challenge.

01:44It angers me that that is the way that I think, that I need to be cured.

01:49At least that's what we've yours.