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Allies in the fight for lbgt equality come from unexpected places. my next guest is a young man whose staunch religious upbringing left him homophobic until he says a female friend changed everything. >> she broke down one night outside of care yoke and told me in tears she had just come out to her family and been brutally disowned. she had been ex-communicated from her entire life and two words changed it all. two simple words. i'm gay. >> you know, after that he questioned his own faith and his dogma saying he needed to learn empathy so decided to pose as a gay man for one year. he then went...

You say this is all done not in an effort to bash christians but your religious upbringing taught you to convert liberals, jews, muslims, atheists. the lbgt community represented the worst of all sin and you say you treated them as a bigot. when you made the decision to try this social experiment how did your friends and family react when you fictitiously came out? >> my family was very supportive initially. they treated me with the love and respect i expected. i don't think they quite knew how to react to having a gay family member but, you know, that was the religious barrier there that we w...