A Mormon gay nversn therapist, David Mathon, has announced that his 30-year marriage to a woman has end, and that he is pursug life as a gay man.
Contents:
- ALL DEAD MORMONS ARE NOW GAY
- PROMENT MORMON GAY NVERSN THERAPIST OUT AS GAY
- MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH
ALL DEAD MORMONS ARE NOW GAY
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A proment gay nversn therapist the Mormon church, who intified for s as “ex-gay, ” announced on Monday that his 30-year marriage to a woman has e to an end, and that he is pursug life as a gay man Mathon ma the announcement on his Facebook acunt after a prev announcement on his behalf by his lleague Rich Wyler — founr of Brothers on a Road Ls Traveled (formerly People Can Change) — was publicized by Tth Ws Out (TWO), an LGBTQ advocy group that nounc antigay anizatns. In a Facebook post, Mathon — who, along wh Wyler, found Journey Into Manhood, a gay nversn retreat — explaed his cisn, while ntug to support the ex-gay movement. “And I realized that was time for me to affirm myself as gay.
”Mathon — who also thored Beg a Whole Man, about “unwanted homosexualy” — scribed his marriage “happy and fulfillg” and said that “beg ‘straight’ had bee a re part of my inty, ” even though he remaed attracted to men. ” He scribed stgglg wh the cisn to end his marriage, which was challengg prcipl that had bee a re part of his fah the Mormon church — “most notably that same-sex partnerships are sful, ” he even addrsed the irony of his path, given his promence as a gay nversn therapist, and offered an explanatn.
PROMENT MORMON GAY NVERSN THERAPIST OUT AS GAY
” He said that any shortgs he had as a therapist “me om my own homophobia and narrow mdns, ” and that he is “tly sorry for those flaws and the harm they have surely ed some people. ”In his post, Mathon did not cricize gay nversn therapy, even though he is now choosg to live as a gay man — and that’s where his crics take issue.
” TWO said Mathon is “livg proof that [gay nversn] programs don’t even work for s most vocifero advot. Until he renounc his “ex-gay” work and tak cred for the liv he’s ed om promotg “gay cute therapy” he should NEVER be accepted by our muny #ByeBch ?♂️ — Gay Oracle (@SimonSFrankl) January 22, 2019LGBTQ publitn Pri wrote, “The dissonance between realizg pretendg you’re not gay is killg you but not unrstandg that havg voted your life to tellg other men to do the same was harmful is astoundg. ”At least one member of the LGBTQ muny is acceptg Mathon’s apology — but he’s also urgg the ex-ex-gay lear to make amends.
MORMON AND GAY: CHURCH SAYS YOU N BE BOTH
“Will you take proactive steps to heal the “harm your own homophobia and narrow mdns have surely ed some people? '” Facebook menter Kendall Wilx, an openly gay Mormon filmmaker, wrote on Mathon’s post. ”Mathon had once told ABC’s Nightle that his work wh Journey Into Manhood retreats was to help men for whom beg gay was simply not an optn.
“For some people ‘gay’ is never gog to work.