The TV show 30 Days will take someone from one side of an issue and have them live for 30 days with someone on the other side. In this particular case, Katy, one who strongly disapproves of gays for religious reasons, went to spend that time with Tom and Dennis and their 4 adopted sons (near Ann Arbor!). She also attends a gay family picnic, visits kids who grew up with gay parents, spends an afternoon volunteering for a group that campaigns for gay adoption, and even visits two people who grew up in the foster care system and would have been happy to go live with gays. A final scene is a picnic with the birth family of one of the boys who are pleased at how well Tom and Dennis are raising the child they had to give up. I heard about this about the time it was filmed. Now it is available through the internet. It's a bit under 45 minutes (and you can pause it). Well worth your viewing.
A couple scenes (of many) that caught my attention:
Katy is horrified that the 6-year-old boy has to decide whether to tell classmates he has two dads. The kid is too young for such a burden, she says. Of course, if there wasn't so much homophobia, which she is a part of, it wouldn't be a burden at all.
After a visit to the gay-accepting church where Tom and Dennis are members Katy laments a society that lets anyone do whatever they want, a society without moral structure. Several times during the show she talks about her inability and unwillingness to go against what she believes. She has a hard time wrapping her head around the idea that her views of gays shouldn't be the law of the land.
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