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IS KELV GAY THE RIGHTEO GEMSTON? THEORI
Their unnventnal relatnship mt have ma you wonr whether Kelv is gay. But, for now, they seem to be ntent by wrg the character to hilar and homoerotic suatns.
NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
In season 1, Jse tells Gion that he would happily accept if the latter were gay. Across two seasons, the show has ma a plethora of pafully te-to-church-life referenc: Jse Gemstone tells his youngt son that a “masturbatn alarm” go off heaven whenever he touch himself, the church support group for married people is full of upl who hate each other, and piful patriarchs are nstantly mimizg the strong women around ’s the tense nnectn between Kelv Gemstone (Adam DeVe), the youngt son of Eli Gemstone, and his voted mullet-wearg ex-Satanist follower Keefe (Tony Cavalero), that nstut the weird, queer-tged heart of The Righteo ’s somethg of an old joke at this pot that J uld have been a gay man; after all, he was a lifelong bachelor and mama’s boy who kept close pany wh an all-male group. Keefe is ostensibly nverted to Christiany, but after two long seasons of homoerotic teasg and clever blockg, ’s clear by now that he wants nothg more than te timacy wh Kelv.
This has led the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, as is formally known, to velop a very strange relatnship to homosexualy, which some Mormon men are vol about their attractn to other men, but rema married to women and do not feel they are sners so long as they don’t act on the “temptatn, ” almost as if their sexual orientatn is a mental illns or substance abe problem. The official term for this the LDS Church is “same-sex attractn, ” clilly abbreviated as “SSA, ” which the church officially separat om “homosexual behavr. ” The Church’s official stance, as listed on s webse, is that “intifyg as gay, lbian, or bisexual or experiencg same-sex attractn is not a s and do not prohib one om participatg the Church, holdg llgs, or attendg the temple.