He leads and worships in a community of people seeking to leave behind the parts of their identities they believe are no more than wicked temptations, and his sincerity is total. In that, it leans a little too far toward easy forgiveness.īut it is illuminating, especially in its exploration of McCall - someone so committed to ex-gay proselytizing, just as the other “former” LGBTQ Christians in the film once were. The documentary has a complicated task: to sympathize with its subjects as survivors without excusing their propagation of the same ideology that hurt other closeted Christians, many of whom did not survive at all.