While it is true that many denominational bodies and
leaders protested vigorously against our government's Indochina policy, it is all too evident that
by and large the local
churches failed to confront the theological and moral issues of the war.
One, Travis (Michael Angarano), late for school, sees a
protest by the Five Points Trinity
Church and its
leader, Rev. Abin Cooper (a stellar Michael Parks), at the funeral of a homosexual kid who was recently murdered.