My wife, Angel, and I co-own Telescope Media Group, a small film production company in St. Cloud. We get to tell stories for a living. It fires us up. It pays the bills. But it is also a way we serve God.
Not only are we natural storytellers, we also believe that beautifully told stories point to a common story we all share — how God created us and loves us. In this way, our stories are part of a larger story. And that’s why our company exists — to point to that larger story that glorifies God.
This conviction — this deeply held belief about our Creator and his vision for the world — is why we challenged a Minnesota law that would force us to tell stories and celebrate messages that contradict our beliefs. Because of these religious beliefs, there are a lot of stories we love to tell. But there are some stories we just can’t tell.
We can’t tell stories demeaning others or promoting racism, or stories celebrating infidelity or sexual abuse. We also can’t tell stories promoting a view of marriage that contradicts our religious beliefs, such as stories celebrating same-sex marriage.
But according to Minnesota officials, if we create films celebrating marriage between one man and one woman, we must also create films promoting views about marriage that violate our beliefs, including films promoting same-sex marriages.
"Artistic" hubris comes from bible reading? How does this differ in any real and actual way from the restaurant with separate drinking fountains and seating areas for black people? This is not Michelangelo contracting with a pope to paint a ceiling. It is substantially less.