Ever since the wedding announcement, I felt I'd been battling against people who use...
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Ever since the wedding announcement, I felt I'd been battling against people who use religion to deny people their basic rights and visibility. Pastor Micklos was open to looking at things in a different way. I never thought I'd become friends with someone who didn't view me as his equal. But his willingness to examine his beliefs, helped me see that not all religious people fell into the box I often put them in
Ever since the wedding announcement, I felt I'd been battling against people who use religion to deny people their basic rights and visibility. Pastor Micklos was open to looking at things in a different way. I never thought I'd become friends with someone who didn't view me as his equal. But his willingness to examine his beliefs, helped me see that not all religious people fell into the box I often put them in
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Ever since the wedding announcement
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I felt like I had been battling
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against people who use religion
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to deny gay people basic rights of visibility
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Pastor Micklos was open to looking at things
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in a different way
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I'd never thought I'd become friends
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with someone who didn't view me as his equal
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But his willingness to examine his own beliefs
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was helping me to see that not all religious people
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fell into the box that I often put them in
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Movie Summary
The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson's wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy in his small hometown and a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school.
