Joe Bell (2020)

Mark Wahlberg: Joe Bell

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• Joe Bell : A lot of people don't think it's a big deal to make fun of other people... um, who are different from you. You know, bullying and intolerance can have a deadly effect. And I'm here because I'm walking across America on behalf of my son, Jadin, to speak out against bullying.

• Joe Bell : Jadin went to church with a friend of his one Sunday. I mean, he was hoping he'd make some friends and find a place where people would be kind. During the service, the pastor singled him out and said, "If you are gay, you must come up here to the altar and repent your sins, or leave." Jaden told us it made him feel horrible, like he didn't belong. You got them Catholic Church taking child molesting priests, they move them from one church to another so they can molest other boys, and they won't accept my son because he's openly gay? I mean, the idea is you're supposed to worship the guy who died to build it, not the frigging assholes in there that are judging everybody doing God knows what behind closed doors.

• Lola Lathrop : How do you pay for it?

  Joe Bell : Well, I'll - I'll get the money. I can fund-raise. I mean, everybody's against bullying, aren't they?

  Lola Lathrop : No. If they were, this wouldn't have happened.

• Joe Bell : Because he works hard at it. You put the time in... you get good at whatever you work hard at. That's all about sacrifice.