An admirable man, this takes courage and a change of heart for the better

[nmgaucho]

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A father who’s a local peanut farmer in Alabama, standing outside a Roy Moore rally, talks about losing his gay daughter at age of 23 to suicide. Says people shouldn’t vote for Moore who calls gay people perverts & an abomination.

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[Kirk Lover]

1. Chris Hayes had the clip on...this guy almost made me cry.

I'd also like to give him a hug.

[RandomAccess]

2. Me too

Poor man.

[George II]

4. That's where I saw it earlier. Yes, makes one want to cry. Who says people can't change?

[Demoiselle]

8. I saw the clip, too. Count me in for another hug...

[bedazzled]

3. he is wonderful

made me cry for his loss. an honorable and brave man

[BamaRefugee]

5. A good man. And probably the object of a lot of snickering and derision...

I feel his pain as I watched my gay aunt live through a lot of strife in the late 50s and 60s in Birmingham.

[shenmue]

6. ...

[Marie Marie]

7. Add me to the list of people that had tears in their eyes listening to him.

[Stuart G]

9. Perhaps, just perhaps this could influence the election in the correct direction.

No one knows. A local person losing a 23 year old gay daughter to suicide could convince more people than a lot of the other issues..

..Says people shouldn't vote for Moore who calls gay people perverts and an abomination...

The message of a father who lost a 23 year old daughter that Ray Moore would call "a pervert" could be more powerful than anything.

...and it is the truth.... and is very sad.

[Amaryllis]

10. "My side is truth." Good lesson in suspending judgment.

[bedazzled]

11. A hopeful sign that improvement is possible

Understanding can be achieved, unfortunately at great cost

[byronius]

12. Got the tears in my eyes. Painful lesson for that man.

Too bad it always seemes to take a traumatic personal experience for some people to change.

George Wallace comes to mind.

[Jarqui]

13. People like that help to lift me up and sustain my hope

His daughter sure would be proud of her daddy tonight. And she would be right to feel that way.

To me, that man represents a lot more of what America is about than the whole GOP put together.

Thanks for sharing that tweet.

[rwsanders]

14. Hard to watch because that man has been ripped apart...

That was probably the hardest thing he has ever done in his life.
I pray he finds peace.

[GulfCoast66]

15. Wow. Very powerful

Sometimes a simple man carries the strongest message.

[dchill]

16. Hate is easy until it hits home.

I really do feel for this guy, but what I said is true. And hate has a very high price that we ALL end up having to pay.

[calimary]

17. Welcome to DU, nmgaucho!

This really rips one's heart out. Thank you so much for posting it.

This is the kind of fellow who is MASSIVELY needed by states like Alabama, to prove they don't all share a 6th-Century (BC) mindset. His own words confess that he once did feel that way. But then his own precious daughter brought the real world home to him. May she rest in peace. She had to have felt so tortured and misunderstood and isolated in that environment, so badly and deeply that she felt the only way out was taking her own life.

And I feel for her dad, too. What a rotten way to have one's mind opened. He had to lose a child to get there. I cannot even begin to imagine the agony of that.

It just shouldn't have to be that way. For ANYONE.

[mahina]

18. Wow, that does take a lot of courage.

Peace to her and her ohana, and welcome to DU nmgaucho!