Homosexual Activist Stars in The End of the Spear Movie

By Dr. Douglas D. Stauffer

Satan's spiritual arsenal leveled against Christians continues to expand. One of his newest and most effective weapons is the so-called Christian movie. Through slick Hollywood advertising campaigns Christians are being convinced to pack the theaters in support of these supposed Christian films. Satan's most recent deception in this area revolves around the promotion and overwhelming acceptance by Christians of the recently released movie-The End of the Spear.

At no time in recent history could a brazenly activist homosexual star in a movie about a Christian martyr. Yet, this very thing is happening with Christians naïvely disputing the issue as though it were open to debate. This movie's producers who chose to eliminate the Gospel and Jesus Christ from the story also chose to include a homosexual activist to portray the man who epitomized the pinnacle of Christian commitment and sacrifice. The actor's chosen lifestyle disqualifies his involvement in this potentially worthy endeavor, invalidating any Christian support for this film. Choosing him to play the part dishonors the Lord and disgraces all those that have lived and died for Him.

The Story Behind the Story

January 8, 2006, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the death of five missionaries in Ecuador-Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Peter Fleming, Ed McCully, and Roger Youderian. They were martyred on a sandy beach along the Curaray River by Ecuadorian natives. Their story 50 years ago shocked the entire world and had a reviving effect on worldwide missions. In fact, Life magazine chronicled the events as its cover story, dedicating ten pages to the tragedy.

Regretfully, the movie making machinery has cast a dark shadow on the legacy of these valiant men. Every Tribe Entertainment recently released its film about the missionaries focusing on Nate and Steve Saint-father and son. The conspicuous absence of both the Gospel and of Jesus Christ from the The End of the Spear is indicative of an industry attempting to please everyone except the impassioned Christian desiring the whole truth to be told.

The movie basically depicts a group of clean-cut white men going far out of their way to reach out to a group of cutthroat savages. The end of the story shows that these men sacrificed their lives in order to facilitate the savages' reform into clean-cut people too. Those unfamiliar with the true story could just as easily assume from the script of the movie that these missionaries were Mormons, rather than evangelical missionaries obediently fulfilling the Great Commission.

Another equally troubling aspect of the film is the casting of an openly activist homosexual in the star role. Chad Allen, a homosexual actor and activist, was chosen by Every Tribe Entertainment to play the starring role of missionary pilot Nate Saint, and that of his son Steve Saint. Every Christian should be concerned because Allen is an advocate for an anti-biblical, despicable lifestyle. Here is a man starring in a "Christian" themed movie that is not merely a sinful actor playing a part, but one that loves his sin and uses his fame to try to convince others of its legitimacy. Shamefully, Christian support of this film will provide him with a broader platform to further influence others concerning this deviant and perverse lifestyle.

Who is Chad Allen?

The man that plays the part of Nate Saint, the slain missionary is promoting the acceptance of homosexuality as natural, normal, and healthy. Granted, Christians should not expect the unregenerate to act any better than they do; however, our mission to reach the lost soul must never displace basic moral principles in the process. 

In 2001, Allen produced and starred in a play that blasphemously paralleled the story of Christ. It is entitled Corpus Christi. It features a hard-drinking homosexual man named Joshua as the Christ-figure. After growing up isolated and ridiculed because of his homosexuality, Joshua flees the city and gathers a group of twelve disciples who cling to him because of "his message of love and tolerance." To further enforce the blasphemous connection of his Christ-like figure, most of Joshua's twelve so-called disciples bear the names of Christ's apostles.

In 2003, Allen started his own production company named Mythgarden in order to help produce shows that positively reflect homosexuality. He believes that it is time homosexuals are portrayed in "good relationships, real relationships, honest characters, in all of the genres of storytelling-fantasy, fiction, fairy tales, great mysteries, adventure films, and honest drama."[1]

In a Larry King Live[2] interview, Chad Allen attributed his homosexual lifestyle to God or a god. His interview reveals that his god is one of his own making. Allen told Larry King and the CNN audience:

I have a deep relationship with [the] god of my understanding. It's very powerful, and it's taken its own shape and form. And I am very much at peace in the knowledge that in my heart god created this beautiful expression of my love. (meaning that God made him a homosexual)

Most of Allen's performances revolve around homosexuality. However, The End of the Spear allows him to change character and be viewed as a clean-cut man with the highest of moral standards.

It should matter to Christians who represents us to the world at large. This type of casting further confuses and blurs right and wrong in an already confused world on the brink of moral collapse. Chad Allen's fan base will certainly expand-especially amongst Christian children. His homosexuality while acting the part of a committed Christian who gave his life for the cause of Christ is irreconcilable. 

Steve Saint's Blunder

Steve Saint, the son of the slain pilot, helped produce the film. He said that he recalled being shocked the first time he learned of Allen's homosexual lifestyle. Saint said that "upon further reflection he began to see the (homosexual) actor's involvement as possibly God-ordained." [3]

Three months after being hired, Allen offered to "walk away" from the contract; however, Steve Saint refused his offer. Saint said that God had spoken to him in a dream and warned him that having a homosexual play the part was the divine plan and that Saint should not worry about the Christians who would oppose the movie for that reason.

In his dream, he was chased by a mob of Christians who were angry with him for desecrating their story. Saint said he then heard God say, "'Steve, you of all people should know that I love all of my children. With regard to Chad Allen, I went to great lengths to orchestrate an opportunity for him to see what it would be like for him to walk the trail that I marked for him. Why did you mess with my plans for him?'"[4] The biggest problem with this scenario is that our dreams were never intended to be our guiding "light" in spiritual matters today. Including a homosexual because of a dream is bad enough, but excluding the Gospel and Jesus Christ in order to have a wider audience invalidates calling this a Christian film.

When Saint was confronted with the fact that the Gospel was not overtly present in the film, he responded. "The theater is not a good venue for doing that." Instead of going to hear preaching, he explains, "People go into the theater and they open up their 'cultural heart'-and that's where new trends in our society start; they start in the theater."[5]

There is only one "new trend" developing when an openly homosexual activist has the starring role in a movie about dedicated Christians having paid the ultimate sacrifice-acceptance for a lifestyle that the Bible condemns.

The Christian message and the messenger are intricately interwoven. It is completely unacceptable for an openly vocal homosexual messenger to act the part of a dedicated Christian. Can anything be more confusing? Dedicated Christians certainly do not openly and knowingly parade their sin for the world to see. Sin in one's life is a shameful thing which should never be legitimized.

The End Times Battle Lines are Being Drawn

Christians can well attest to the fact that Hollywood has never been a friend to Christianity. For decades now, Satan has instigated and effectively used the gross immorality coming out of Hollywood to adversely influence Christians. Fortunately, many Christians have withstood Satan's frontal assault upon everything decent. However, his use of moral compromise and spiritual infidelity seems to be effectively misleading those not seduced by his direct assault.

Christians enticed to accept Satan's form of entertainment in the name of Christ will be increasingly influenced by a message that erodes the truths of scripture. The Christian movie phenomenon has only just begun-buckle your seatbelts because we are in for a very bumpy ride down a path as yet uncharted.

Additional Information for those yet Unconvinced

Contrary to the Hollywood movie making machinery and some 21^st Century Christians, it does matter who has the platform to influence us as Christians. It does matter who presents our beliefs to the world at large. It also matters who Christians financially support using "our platform" to influence others with their deviant lifestyle all in the name of winning one more soul to Christ. This "one more soul" philosophy could be used to justify any number of unwise, ungodly and unbiblical actions. I guess this philosophy now allows Christians to go into a bar, a bordello, or even a strip joint if we claim to be doing it in the name of soul winning.

Ever increasingly, Christians are more ignorant of Satan's devices and overtaken through his deceitful ways. The Christian message and the messenger are intricately interwoven. It is completely unacceptable for an openly vocal homosexual messenger to act like a dedicated Christian. Can anything be more confusing? These mixed signals are called the wiles of the Devil (Ephesians 6:11). The Bible also tells us that we are not ignorant of his devices (2 Corinthians 2:11). Additional and more explicit information is provided for those still riding the fence on this issue.

Allen's Website

Chad Allen's website[6] offers enough information for anyone desiring to know who and what he is. The website clearly reveals the confusing environment in which Hollywood child idols are raised. Like many of these rising stars, Allen also struggled with alcohol and drugs-along with his homosexuality. He mentions that he was a popular teen idol with "a mega publicist who put out an image of me that seemed ideal." He mentions the teen magazines as portraying him as a perfect teenager. He says, "I was in teen magazines all the time and in reality, what was I? A 13-year-old who's as ------ up as every other 13-year-old across the country." Of course, his views of all teens were skewed by the environment in which he was raised. (expletive deleted)

According to Allen's website, "Courageously, in the October 9, 2001, issue of The Advocate, Chad came out as a gay man. He also acknowledged past problems with drugs and alcohol." He has been on the Cover of The Advocate-the leading homosexual magazine-at least three times.

In 2003, Allen started a company called Mythgarden. His stated goal is to use Mythgarden to show homosexual people in a positive light. Their motto is to push the "gay is good" theme. He is using this company to produce a television biography series about homosexual men and women he calls "heroes throughout history." He also has a series that takes classic fairy tales and gives them a homosexual twist. In fact, his company has optioned a book called Fairy Tales for Gay Men.

On Allen's website he reflects upon the first time he read the new fairy tale book. "When I read it for the first time, I found myself in a really nasty situation with my boyfriend at the time. We were breaking up and I turned to him and blurted out, 'What you want is not my idea of happily ever (after).'" [7]

The company's first play entitled Save Me is in pre-production and takes issue with Reparative Therapy methods that are designed to help homosexuals change their chosen lifestyle (homosexual buzzword-orientation). Allen's website also reveals his vision behind Mythgarden. Allen says,

Our company is entirely dedicated to turning the page on gay and lesbian storytelling in film, television, and theatre. We believe that it's time that our stories can be told fully: good relationships, real relationships, honest characters, in all of the genres of storytelling-fantasy, fiction, fairy tales, great mysteries, adventure films, and honest drama.[8]

Allen's website continues into 2004/2005:

Chad continues to focus on his acting, and landed two very important roles in his career. One dual part in the highly anticipated film End of the Spear, which brought Chad on location all the way to South America, to film one of the greatest stories of forgiveness. The story was born from the death of five missionaries, led by Jim Elliot and Nate Saint. In January 2006, 50 years after the spearing, the feature length movie will release in theaters nationwide.[9]

The other part was as Donald Strachey, in Third Man Out. Here-TV, a gay and lesbian television network, approached Chad with the detective story written by Richard Stevenson, and Chad signed on to do 6 movies in the Donald Strachey Mystery Series.[10]

In 2004 he stepped back on the set of NYPD Blue for a second time, and delivered a powerful performance of a robber who picks up gay men, and ends up murdering one of his victims.[11]

Most of Allen's performances revolve around homosexuality. However, The End of the Spear allows him to change character and be viewed as a clean-cut man with the highest of moral standards. Utter confusion! "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints" (1 Corinthians 14:33).

Contrary to Allen's spin on his website, he did not "courageously" come out of the closet in 2001. The first paragraph of the October 9, 2001, issue of The Advocate magazine, reveals that "somebody took a picture of him kissing a young man in the pool at that party, and some weeks later the tabloids outed him with that picture." The byline for the story reads:  "The former teen idol and current actor-producer-activist tells all about his 1996 tabloid outing, his circuit party days, and his road to self-acceptance."[12] According to this 2001 article, Allen "came clean" five years after he had been "outed" by the tabloids in 1996 when the man whom he was kissing sold the picture. His public admission does not sound like a courageous move, but a calculated attempt to spin the story in his favor.

Allen's interview with the homosexual magazine clearly reveals the total identity confusion. He knew how to act, but not how to be himself or who he was:

I can get up in front of how many people every night onstage and be somebody else, but to sit here and be myself, I don't know who that is. ..I have been doing it since I was a kid. You think I'd know by now. Basically, I had been raised on the set and at church-strict Catholic upbringing there.[13]

Allen is asked, "How strict was the Catholic upbringing?" He answers: "Oh, heavy. When I wasn't working that was it, for 12 years. Of course, we didn't have nuns by the time I was in Catholic school." Allen is asked, "Gay priests?" "Sure. Some of them were very open. One was very open and helpful to students who were openly gay." "Like you?" "Like me. There was love and acceptance, and it was OK; they just weren't allowed to have sex. That was not my situation. I had to strike out and try everything on the great spiritual journey. Basically, I was having a blast in high school. It was the first time I had been off the set since I was 4 years old."[14]

The interview continues: "Not so long ago you had a big reputation around drugs and parties. Were you a circuit boy?" Allen responded,

No, I was a guy who loved to push everything to its limits. That included the use of drugs and alcohol to expand and heighten every emotion to its absolute extreme. I've experienced the rave scene, the underground New York and L.A. scenes, the circuit party scene among gay men-all of it..I've had beautiful, intense romantic relationships with women in my life. And in this period in my life I have beautiful, intense romantic relationships with men.[15]

Chad Allen's Homosexual Agenda

As reported in the Sharper Iron website, Allen was asked about his first gay (homosexual) love scene in a movie by an interviewer with InLA magazine. He responded, "I want beautiful, positive representations of gay male sexuality out there. So it was very important to the director, Ron Oliver, and me to make a really good sex scene that wasn't gratuitous or gross but was healthy, sexy, and beautiful."[16]

Allen stated in another interview with InLA magazine that he believed the Spear movie would bridge the gap between the "gay and Christian communities." Allen's homosexual agenda is quite clear:

• He is attempting to recast homosexuals in a positive light
• He is fighting for legal recognition of homosexual marriages
• He wants tolerance, acceptance and recognition of the homosexual lifestyle and agenda
• He gives generously to the "Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund" which helps elect openly homosexual candidates to public office

In another interview, Allen stated: "I want to be responsible for putting a committed loving fun gay relationship on TV so that those who are watching if they're young or old or in a relationship or not want to look up to this couple." [17]

Allen speaks of bridging the gap between homosexuals and Christians. Only the Gospel of the Grace of God and Allen's coming to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ can bring this homosexual over to Christianity. Compromise and acceptance of his chosen lifestyle is completely out of the question. Any acceptance of this sinful lifestyle leavens the truth of Christianity and the regenerating power of its influence to change the sinner.

Chad Allen's god (expanded)

The root of Allen's confusion comes through time and again-especially during his appearance on Larry King Live. Chad Allen's god is not the God of the Bible. His interview on Larry King Live[18] reveals that his god is one of his own making. Allen told Larry King and the CNN audience:

I have a deep relationship with [the] god of my understanding. It's very powerful, and it's taken its own shape and form. And I am very much at peace in the knowledge that in my heart god created this beautiful expression of my love.

These days I judge all of my actions by my relationship with [the] god of my understanding. It is a deep-founded, faith-based belief in god based upon the work that I've done growing up as a Catholic boy and then reaching out to Buddhism philosophy, to Hindu philosophy, to Native American beliefs and finally as I got through my course with addiction and alcoholism and finding a higher power that worked for me.

Later in the Larry King Live program, Allen was asked about his involvement with The End of the Spear movie. He replied,

I play a Christian, yes. And they're going to be saying, 'This is the way you be Christian, there's only one way.' Well you know what, there isn't. I'm a part of a wonderful community church here in Pasadena that has a very different interpretation of those same gospels that they are speaking of. There isn't just one way to do this, there are a lot of paths.

What does the Bible say about Chad Allen's speculative multi-path route to heaven? Regretfully, it will eventually lead him and all of his entourage straight to hell. I would hate to be the one of those responsible for giving him a greater opportunity through this film to tell others about his god, rather than the one true God.   

Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Chad Allen's Buddhist, Hindu, Native American philosophical religion topped off with the god of his own understanding will not lead him to the truth. It is simply the broad way leading one to hell. He will have to reject these false gods and turn completely around (repent) to see the one and only true God who died for his sins on the cross of Calvary and awaits his acknowledgement of such. The Bible says there is only one way and that salvation revolves around that one Man-Christ Jesus.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

All of this information on Chad Allen proves two things. First, Allen has rejected the one true Saviour. Second, he is on a mission to redefine the public's acceptance of his abhorrent lifestyle. Most of this information was presented to those responsible for making the movie's casting decisions. Somehow and for some reason they threw common sense and decency out of the window and chose this man for the leading role.

There is a difference between this activist homosexual that plays the roles of Nate and Steve Saint and the closeted homosexual actor Ian Charleson who played the Christian part of Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire. Charleson, who died of AIDS on January 6, 1990, claims to have read the Bible from beginning to end[19] in preparation for his role in Chariots of Fire and yet remained a closeted homosexual. We have certainly "come a long way" when Christians now welcome a homosexual to star in a movie about Christian sacrifice while he uses his increased celebrity status to blatantly parade and promote his wicked lifestyle! Although both casting decisions are unconscionable, Hollywood now believes that Christians have "progressed" to their level of degradation.

Christians are being lulled into the world's way of thinking. Television and the movie industry are powerful forces reshaping our entire world. Hollywood has never been a friend to true biblical Christianity and will continue to reshape the world to fit Satan's design. A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) in his book, "On Worship and Entertainment:  The Menace of the Religious Movie," hits the nail on the head almost prophetically describing the downward spiral witnessed today:

Those who would appeal for precedent to the Miracle Plays have certainly overlooked some important facts. For instance, the vogue of the Miracle Play coincided exactly with the most dismally corrupt period the Church has ever known. When the Church emerged at last from its long moral night these plays lost popularity and finally passed away. And be it remembered, the instrument God used to bring the Church out of the darkness was not drama; it was the biblical one of Spirit-baptized preaching. Serious-minded men thundered the truth and the people turned to God. Indeed, history will show that no spiritual advance, no revival, no upsurge of spiritual life has ever been associated with acting in any form. The Holy Spirit never honors pretense.[20]

One thing may bother some earnest souls: why so many good people approve the religious movie. The list of those who are enthusiastic about it includes many who cannot be written off as borderline Christians. If it is an evil, why have not these denounced it?

The answer is lack of spiritual discernment. Many who are turning to the movie are the same who have, by direct teaching or by neglect, discredited the work of the Holy Spirit. They have apologized for the Spirit and so hedged Him in by their unbelief that it has amounted to an out-and-out repudiation. Now we are paying the price for our folly. The light has gone out and good men are forced to stumble around in the darkness of the human intellect.

The religious movie is at present undergoing a period of gestation and seems about to swarm over the churches like a cloud of locusts out of the earth. The figure is accurate; they are coming from below, not from above. The whole modern psychology has been prepared for this invasion of insects. The fundamentalists have become weary of manna and are longing for red flesh. What they are getting is a sorry substitute for the lusty and uninhibited pleasures of the world, but I suppose it is better than nothing, and it saves face by pretending to be spiritual. Let us not for the sake of peace keep still while men without spiritual insight dictate the diet upon which God's children shall feed.