Empathy is an interesting and wonderful thing. If we can just walk one mile in someone else's shoes, we begin to look at them and the world around us a little bit differently. We first have to open our minds to the change in attitude, but if we can do it, it can happen. The below clip of a conservative christian straight man who decided to live as a gay man for a year is an example of this phenomenon.
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Since the video is eighteen minutes long, I won’t add a lot of verbiage. It is below:
From Towleroad:
Back in 2012, we told you about Timothy Kurek, the straight Christian man from the Bible Belt who pretended to be gay for a year in order to examine his own views on homosexuality. Kurek is back with a Tedx Talk posted earlier this month in which he opens up about his childhood, homosexuality and his year of living as a gay man. Kurek’s decision to live for a year identifying as gay was precipitated by an emotional encounter with a young lesbian who had just come out and been disowned by her family. Listening to her story, Kurek says he had a little voice in his head telling him,“It was my job to straighten her out, to fix her, it was my job to share those six passages in the Bible I’d always been taught condemn homosexuality.”But then, he had an epiphany:“Maybe that voice inside my head telling me to do anything other than be there for her in her pain…maybe that voice wasn’t God. Maybe that voice was the result of two decades spent in a hyper conservative religious bubble…I needed to understand what she was going through.”
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Top Comments (September 6, 2016):
From ZenTrainer:
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This comment by RoIn in Walter Einenkel’s post CNN lowers expectations for Trump, puts debate success on Hillary Clinton’s shoulders instead.
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This comment by We Shall Overcome in First Amendment’s post CNN actually admits media bias against Clinton, ‘expectations are higher for her’ than Trump. (This will show up in tomorrow’s Top Mojo.)
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Top Mojo (September 5, 2016):
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