Straight Christian Lives One Year As Gay Man

Timothy Kurek...Is my gaydar going off?
Would ANY straight man decide to pretend to "come out" to his homophobic family and then pretend to be gay for a full year?  I can't say one way or another whether he is gay or straight.  Is he just a gay man who decided to "try out" being gay and came up with a "way out"?  Or, is he the real deal?  Thoughts?

Via Huffington Post:


Thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people weren't the only ones celebrating National Coming Out Day on Thursday. A Christian man from Tennessee appeared on ABC News to talk about his own coming out experience but -- he's straight.
Timothy Kurek "came out" to his family and friends and lived as a gay man for a year in order to experience what life is like as an LGB person. The Liberty College graduate told ABC News, "You learned to be very afraid of God [in church]... [And you learned] the loving thing to do is to tell my friend who is gay, 'Hey, listen, you are an abomination and you need to repent to go to heaven.' I absolutely believed in that lock, stock and barrel."
But four years ago a lesbian acquaintance of his relayed the story of how her family rejected her when she came out to them and Kurek was moved to take action.
"I feel God really kicked me in the gut," he said. "She was crying in my arms and instead of being there for her, I was thinking about all the arguments to convert her."
Soon after Kurek decided to go under cover and "come out" as a gay man.

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