Frisbee: The life and Death of a Hippie Preacher ::2
One of the most insightful looks at the history of the Vineyard Church occurred for me when I watched ‘Frisbee: The life and Death of a Hippie Preacher”.
“As some of you” had a comment from Steve Sjogren (I suspect it is the same person as the author/pastor/blogger but I maybe wrong.) who gave a bit more insight into the DVD and the life of Lonnie.
I regularly hung out with Lonnie in the early 80’s while helping launch a church in the L.A. area. I have friends who were around Lonnie from the day he showed up at Church’s house while hitchhiking.
Am an arm’s length friend of David the documentary maker.
There is an out-of-control level of Lonnie myth being perpetuated now re him being gay. Sexually broken? Yes. Not gay.
Lonnie was very clear about his sexual sin-failings-mess-ups. Anyone who was around Lonnie knows he was not shy about his ’stuff’ in public. (David the documentary maker admits he was not around Lonnie – at all.) To label Lonnie a homosexual is utterly inaccurate. There is an agenda afoot for whatever reason to paint Lonnie as a gay when there is scant evidence of that being accurate. Lonnie was an incredibly diverse person. He had lots of gay friends. I hope each reading this does too – that simply means you are one who loves people.
Lonnie was a bi-sexual… at that, his brokenness took him into that lifestyle off and on at different episodes over a long, extended number of decades.
Any summary of Lonnie’s sexual orientation as being gay is inaccurate journalism.Orwell wrote in his novel 1984, “Whoever controls the present controls the past.” Either those ‘recalling’ this or that by those present once upon a time ought to become far more precise in their choice of words, or better yet, maybe it’s time to retell the story accurately. Stevearino
I had a long conversation with the film maker via email. I was also friends with Larry Norman who forced Daved to take his music out of the doc. I can’t yet figure out what David’s agenda is, but I’ve talked to many of the people in the film and they also agreed that the film was slanted. Many of them told me had they know the film was going to have the slant it did they would never have agreed to be in it. I’ve also talked to one of Lonnies roomates who said he believed the film maker weas totally off in his assesment of Lonnie.
Thanks for the comment Ray. It is a shame that the homosexual slant has overridden the truth. Even if Lonnie was bisexual I’m not sure this would have effected much of the story, in the film. Maybe the film may not have won some of the awards it did.
I think the film is more about David trying to make a name for himself. He’s not interested in honest unbias history! In our conversations he was very trite and cutting, he never admitted his bias. I’m not even sure the guy is saved! The day after Larry forced David to take his music out of the Lonnie film, Larry got several VILE emails from an anonomous email address which could be traced back to David’s town, coincidence? I think the film will just be accepted into the archives of pro gay litature and film.