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GOD ONLY KNOWS: SAME SEX MARRIAGE
Tuesday February 7, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT    (1½ hrs.)
repeating Tuesday October 31, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT


Just when you thought you'd heard and seen it all in the same-sex marriage debate, God Only Knows: Same Sex Marriage brings to light new, personal and revealing insights. When the pastor of a gay community church in Vancouver and a socially conservative, religious-right lobbyist from Calgary each spend two weeks 'literally' exchanging lives, the principles of one gay man and his partner are pitted against the principles of a traditional husband and wife who are adamantly opposed to same-sex marriage.

This issue is one that is at the heart of Canadian identity.  Despite official government or court decisions, same sex marriage continually calls our country's harmony into question and pulls at our social conscience.  God Only Knows: Same Sex Marriage provides an unprecedented journey inside the lion's den as each tries to understand the other person's point-of-view while holding on to their values and ideals as they face the other's world of family, friends and community.  The result is an extraordinary, never-before-seen view of one of the most heated debates tearing at the social fabric of Canada.

Directed and written by Brent Kawchuk. God Only Knows won the 2006 Rockie Award at the Banff Television Festival for "Best Canadian Program".