I was gay. I had known for years, but I had hoped that I uld "fix " or at least pray to submissn. That was not workg for me.
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And as was betifully embodied the first blok who arrived – they do not see a gay man – jt a man – like them.
Recent progrs posive acknowledgment and acceptance of gays and lbians is enuragg, but the climb ahead looks challengg still. Blame for homosexualy pass through everybody. I sisted wh a ar gay iend of 10+ years that the s of Sodom was homosexualy.
I told another gay iend that he was leavg God when he chose to leave BYU and stop hatg who he was. I didn’t attend a iend of 20+ year’s weddg bee of Elr Oak’s words and advice to parents of homosexuals: “”Don’t expect to stay overnight. I’ve procsed a lot of this personally, but what stck me most while readg through is how much parents are “blamed” for homosexualy.
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I uld not have more wonrful, lovg parents, and I am so sad that they were tght that homosexualy is wrong and that they were the e of their child. I have heard over and over aga om my iends, “If I was the bt missnary, I believed this would be taken away”, “If I served a missn, this would go away”, “If I prayed hard enough, this would go away”, “I thought about suici bee then I would not have to al wh beg gay”…….
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This document is an historil pilatn of LGBTQ+ msagg om the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, begng om the first time gays were ever mentned by the learship, to the prent day. And then, after years of wrtlg out his soul and his heart, and after years of ternal stggle, Erik me out as gay. Once you know you have a gay child, you hear thgs through a different filter.