Remember the AL peanut farmer who was protesting outside Roy Moore rally in honor of gay daughter?

[kpete]

Remember the video I tweeted of the Alabama peanut farmer who was protesting outside the Roy Moore rally in honor of his gay daughter who committed suicide? How could anyone forget, right? Watch this interview of him on @TheEllenShow. He’s an inspiration.

VIDEO:

Link to tweet

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Good, but frustrating.

Not until HE or HIS family was affected did he do the right thing.

I cant stand these people who will NOT see the truth until it is THEM being attacked.

dammit

But, this is better than nothing. And I LOVE

ELLEN

[LenaBaby61]

3. In the climate we're living in currently ....

"But, this is better than nothing."

Shows that at least he IS open to .....

He could have just stayed doubling-down on being homophobic. I mean, look at the 20-25% or so who STILL trust/watch Fauxxx Noose, think that the FBI should be shut down, think that tRump and putin are good guys, and who also think that the more legitimate news agencies are FAKE in reporting the news

Dunderheads like those, you'll never get them to see anything.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Yes, agreed.

In fact you bring up a good point.

One of the main reasons a deplorable stays a deplorable is they wont admit they are wrong, about everything, which they are.

If they could admit it, they could not only come to the side of good but they could live with a whole lot less hate and fear too.

[SCantiGOP]

19. When I first saw that clip

I thought that just his clip might be good for a few thousand votes, to sway some of those on the fence who were having trouble with the whole idea of voting for a Democrat.

I think the Vietnam War ended when it got to the point that everybody knew somebody who had lost a friend or relative in the war. I think the surprisingly quick turnaround on American opinions on gay rights in general and marriage equality in particular is a similar case.
I ran into a guy at my 20 year high school reunion years ago. He mentioned his partner, and then asked me - since we had been pretty good friends in high school - "Certainly you knew I was gay didn't you?" He laughed so loud he spit out his drink when I deadpanned my response that "But there weren't any gay people when we were in High School." He agreed, saying that he could have never considered coming out in South Carolina in the 1970s. Now, everyone, even hard core right wingers and Trumpers, know someone who is gay or has an openly gay relative.
It's much harder to hate that which doesn't have a human face.

[exboyfil]

4. Yes when I talk about the tax plan and the problems with it

They get confused when I say that I will save me about $100-$150/mo. with the new tax plan. That at a cost of at least $6K/adult more debt ($150B/yr deficit).

[Blue_true]

5. People who lean rightwing are like that.

Everyone else is a pervert until life hit them in the face. Too bad that his daughter had to take her life for him to wise up. He has a hole in his soul that will never fill.

[radical noodle]

10. That's often the way it happens

I know a number of people who woke up when their child or grandchild came out.

[IronLionZion]

13. So there's hope. We know how to reach them.

Think of it that way.

[RandomAccess]

16. But you can't imagine how many people

THIS man is now reaching who you could NEVER reach.

I am so sorry for his loss, but I honor him to the heavens, and am so grateful he's turning his grief into activism like this.

Also grateful to Ellen for giving him a platform. I hope he gets many more.

[infidel621]

17. Yes!

[Jake Stern]

2. I hope he can one day find peace

[Blue_true]

7. He never will find total peace.

But he is trying to do the right thing. If he reach one parent of an LGBTQ person and cause that person to accept and love their child, then he would have prevented one person from suffering like he is and will continue to.

[Dem2]

8. That was great

[gibraltar72]

9. He knows

who the preverts are!

[sl8]

11. It makes me wonder what I'd be like today, if I'd been raised in rural Alabama in the 40s & 50s. n/t

[infidel621]

15. A very different person

We can condemn these naïve archaic beliefs but these were taught and reinforced for their entire life by parents, friends, school, church... it was a way of life. Unfortunately for this man, a tragedy I can't imagine going through, is what finally opened his eyes.

[Elwood P Dowd]

18. I qualify.

Went to college, moved around a few years (including Washington, DC) then eventually moved back in the late 1970s.

I started changing my attitudes in college and then later after I was drafted into the Army during Vietnam.

Black people basically lived in Third World conditions over much of the state. The going rate for picking cotton and plowing mules for 10-12 hours was $2.00 a day, or $15.00 to $20.00 bucks a day in today's dollars. Schools didn't start integrating until 1965.

[sl8]

20. It's hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes sometimes.

Posts like yours help.

Thanks.

[Duppers]

12. K & R

[llmart]

14. And who was on the show next????

Our President - Hillary Clinton!

Loved the interview. She is such a "real" person.