'I lost every friend I had': What happened when STRAIGHT Christian who believed homosexuality was a sin spent a year living as an out and proud gay man
Shortly after Timothy Kurek 'came out' as gay, he started snooping around his mother's journal to find out how she really felt about having a homosexual son. He got his answer.
'I'd rather have found out from a doctor that I had terminal cancer than have a gay son,' she'd written.
But unknown to her and the rest of Kurek's friends and family, it was all part of the devout Christian and straight male's yearlong investigation to discover what it's like to live as a young gay man.
The Portland, Ore., man told ABC that he first conceived the project after a friend he knew from karaoke confided in him that she was a lesbian, and that her parents had just disowned her over the revelation.
For years, Kurek had been told that the loving thing to do as a Christian would be to tell his friend that she was an abomination and who should repent immediately if she wanted to go to heaven.
But this time the idea of converting his friend made Kurek ashamed of himself.
'I feel God really kicked me in the gut,' he said. 'She was crying in my armsand instead of being there for her, I was thinking about all the arguments to convert her.'
'It finally clicked,' he said. 'I needed to empathize and understand.'
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This is what I'm afraid my son will have to face. I'm worried for him.
Yes. He just recently came out. He is 15.
Well it's his step-father. His real father has never been in the picture. And he's taking it quite well actually.
Thanks for the advice Mouse! I do love him very much.
Yeah my son doesn't have to worry about that from us. We still love and accept him. I just worry about him being out in the real world.
I'm so glad for your son. I don't want my son to have to move away though. Maybe I'm being selfish. Well it doesn't really matter yet anyways. He's too young to move away.
Big difference between Black and homosexual!
The former is a race. Every Black is born a Black.
Whether homosexuals are born that way is arguable.
Being Black is not forbidden by the Bible as is practicing homosexuality. (Male homosexual acts are forbidden but not lesbianism.)
Homosexualscan be accepted as human beings without endorsing their lifestyle. They should not be discriminated against but neither should they be given special privileges.
You have a healthy attitude. Your concerns are understandible and justified but your endearing love is necessary and important.
Actually, having black skin is considered the Mark of Cain and is worse than being gay in biblical terms.
Thanks Len! I'm just doing the best that I can.
I hear he's gonna spend the next year "pretending" to be a goat fucker next. It's okay though because he will always pull out. Also, the goat will be on top.
Sorry. It was a technical term. Didnt know it was offensive.
I agree with most of what you say. You are a great guy.
But many people have empathy problems and are callous and exploitive. That is why judges often sentance offenders to spend time helping others; vs. jail time.
It frequently does no good in changing the offender but it is not for want of trying. Judging is a tough job.
who cares what the buybull says. No it isnt a lifestyle, it's who someone is. Gay people are not after special privileges, something the xtians have had for centuries. No they are fighting to get their inalienable rights, that was wrongfully stolen from them by the religiofacists
um no, what he did was bring to better light the cruelty of anti-gay bigotry, and the ignorance of anti-gay bigots. It also according to him, it made him better. He turned from anti-gay bigoted ways. I think maybe it was more of a eye opening event tho for him rather than for anyone else. But you know what they say before you judge someone walk a mile in their shoes. He did just that. Even tho Im a staunch supporter of gay rights, in all reality the closest I've come to walking in their shoes, which I think many more people really should do in some way, was kissing a buddy of mine for a giddy girl during a game of "spin the bottle"
It says "BE good to each other"
All the rest is window dressing.
I was wondering if you have any real comments or just like to go around shitting all over peoples articles?
Noted, grain of salt needed and acquired.
I think you totally miss the point.
He wasn't doing this to for the purpose of fooling his friends and family (and just what were they doing all these years telling him that gays were somehow broken?), he was ostensibly using it as an exercise to see what the people who are homosexual have to live with, day in and day out.