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Premiered: August 26, 2003 at 10PM EST | Check for Rebroadcasts

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Several viewers shared their reactions following recent screenings of "Family Fundamentals" in California.

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Seth (Claremont, CA):
It made me think about my parents and myself. It's funny how two people can have a belief in God and pray to the same God and yet two people ask for different things...

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Jahlia (Claremont, CA):
I grew up in a lesbian household, and for me, I've always considered the Christian right fundamentalists "the bad guys." It's probably the same issue that Christian fundamentalists deal with, of how to accept people that you fundamentally do not agree with...

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Jeanne (Claremont, CA):
I'm a United Methodist minister. We certainly need a film like this in our church. There's so much discussion and the church is so divided...

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Jane (Goldsboro, NC):
It made me want even more to try to show what I consider the true love of Christ, the example, instead of some of the loudness and hoopla that sometimes gets the media attention...

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Karlene (San Diego, CA):
I want to say sorry for all the hurt that [gays and lesbians] have experienced through the Church. The true love of Jesus Christ would never, he would never force himself on anyone, and he doesn't show any partiality...

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Jack, Jr. (San Diego, CA):
There's no education in seminary on how to deal with this type of issue, I mean we have tons of drug rehabs, but we don't have anything to deal with sexual issues in our churches, we've shunned it for so long...

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Jack, Sr. (San Diego, CA):
The reason why I've shown it to my congregation is that it has in it the ability to break down some barriers, and cause you to look at people from a different perspective...

"It's funny how two people can have a belief in God and pray to the same God and yet two people ask for different things... "

—Seth (Claremont, CA)

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