Former Professional Homophobe Comes Out in Favour of Same-Sex Marriage

Louis Marinelli was the driving force behind a bus tour around parts of America to “protect marriage” from gays and lesbians, Religion Dispatches reports. During the tour, he met gay activists who protested his work and he gradually began to see them as people. “Even though I had been confronted by the counter-protesters throughout the marriage tour, the lesbian and gay people whom I made a profession out of opposing became real people for me almost instantly,” Marinelli now says in an interview. “For the first time I had empathy for them and remember asking myself what I was doing.”

Read the interview at Good as You. Do also visit Mr Marinelli’s blog here.