Peter Thompson (Brendan P. Hines), 20, is studying to be an Episcopalian priest. He's working with a group of young urban skinheads, trying to help them straighten out their lives. Scott (Joshua Harto), the skinhead Peter is closest to, gets in a fight and kills someone.

The cops show up to arrest Scott, and when he resists they beat him to the ground. Peter tries to intervene, and he's also beaten to the ground. When the dust settles, Peter decides that being a priest is a waste of time, so he drops out of the seminary.

Three months later, it's summer term at Pemberwick College in rural Vermont. Peter has moved into an empty shack on the edge of campus and is fixing it up with the help of his boyhood pal, Alex (Kris Park), a Pemberwick student. Alex's friend Rachel (Elizabeth Banks) stops by to see what's happening, and a complex triangle instantly ignites.

Peter, Rachel and Alex are typical college students, wrestling with issues of friendship, politics and sexuality.

Peter moved to Pemberwick because he thought it would be a quiet place where he could figure out what to do with his life.

Rachel and Alex have been pals since Freshman year, always remaining "just friends." Shortly after meeting Peter, Rachel seduces him, intrigued by his outsider status and his rejection of the priesthood. Far from being upset by the sparks flying between Peter and Rachel, Alex encourages their relationship.

Peter doesn't head for Pemberwick only because Alex is there. Father Eduardo Rey (A Martinez), the Pemberwick chaplain, was Peter's parish priest and mentor when he was in high school, and Peter still looks to Father Ed for advice and friendship.

In response to a number of violent attacks on gays at Pemberwick and in the surrounding community, Father Ed gives a sermon condemning the violence. After Father Ed's sermon, any hope Peter had that Pemberwick would be a "quiet place" is totally blown apart.

ORDINARY SINNER examines the way that religion in America both condemns and supports violence against gays.

In response to a number of violent attacks on gays at Pemberwick and in the surrounding community, Father Eduardo Rey (A MARTINEZ), Pemberwick chaplain and Peter's friend and mentor, gives a sermon condemning the violence.

But conservative Christians at Pemberwick argue that the Bible itself condones violence against gays. When one of Peter's close friends is murdered, Peter has to wade through the strands of prejudice and hate to identify the killer.

To counter this tide of hatred, Father Ed comes out to his congregation. This self-outing is greeted by someone mutilating a bloody GI Joe doll and hanging it on the entrance of a gay hangout, and a gawky red-headed religious student quoting Leviticus.

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