ANALYSIS/OPINION:
We can evolve over the course of our lives.
The Apostle Paul became a bedrock of the Christian faith after zealously persecuting Christians when he was known as Saul of Tarsus. Rosa Parks was a law-abiding seamstress who sat where she was told before demonstrating defiance that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement. Jeffrey Wigand willingly accepted a tobacco company’s paychecks until his conscience led him to be a famous whistleblower.
George Bernard Shaw wrote that “progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Our society was built on a series of faulty belief systems regarding race, gender and sexual orientation, and we haven’t fully dismantled them yet.