Why a Bible belt conservative spent a year pretending to be gay

Timothy Kurek grew up hating homosexuality. As a conservative Christian deep in America's Bible belt, he had been taught that being gay was an abomination before God. He went to his right-wing church, saw himself as a soldier for Christ and attended Liberty University, the "evangelical West Point". But when a Christian friend in a karaoke bar told him how her family had kicked her out when she rev