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Gay Mormon Comes Out to His Friends and Family Over 1 Year Period — and Captures Their Reactions in This Video Montage

Feb. 20, 2013 8:30pm Billy Hallowell

Shock is a common reaction when people find out that their friends and family members are gay. And often times, the “coming out” process has as many surprises for the person giving the news as it does for those receiving it. Jimmy Hales, a gay student at Brigham Young University, learned this all-too-well when he filmed his year-long experience announcing his sexuality to each and every loved one.

Jimmy Hales Tapes Montage Telling His Friends and Family Hes Gay | Mormon, BYU

Photo Credit: YouTube

In the video montage’s description on YouTube, Hames, a Mormon, explains why he decided to let people know the giant secret he had been hiding from everyone, including himself.

“Studying at BYU as a closet gay Mormon has been quite an experience. I finally decided to come out and stop living a lie,” he explained. “I’m still, and will forever be, a faithful Mormon, so it looks like I’m not going to marry and therefore live a single life through this mortal existence. Sucks.”

The reactions in the clip range from surprised to expectant (i.e. “I’ve had my suspicions before.”). Watch the video in its entirety, below:

Considering that his faith is important to him, the young man has taken a pledge to avoid acting upon his sexual preference. Rather than entering into a same-sex relationship, he’s intent on sticking with Mormon teaching (which doesn’t embrace practicing a gay lifestyle).

On his blog, Hales gives an extensive explanation of how he came to accept that he’s gay, while also doubling down on his belief that the Mormon faith is rooted in truth. Here’s how he described first acknowledging his same-sex attraction:

Sometime during Winter semester 2012.
Tithing settlement.
“So, are you dating anyone.”
“Nope.” I shamelessly replied.
“Well that’s not good.” my bishop said.
“I don’t want to date anyone.” Then my bishop looked at me,
“Do you experience feelings of same-gender attraction?” What?! All I said is I don’t want to date anyone, how does he…? ’This is real. Oh gosh, this is very real.’ I paused a good while. I looked at my bishop and in a weak voice replied,
“Yeah.” I had never wanted to die more than that moment. Finally realizing the fact. Affirming the fact. Loathing the fact. Breaking through the denial was almost more than I could take. A few words were exchanged and then my bishop looked at me and with genuine empathy said,
“That sucks.”

For more about Hales’ story, visit his blog.

(H/T: Gawker)

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Juniemoon
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:30am
God did not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because there were gay men there.

Ezekiel 16:49-50:
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

No, I’m not making an excuse for it, homosexuality is wrong. Men with men are destroying the seed God gave them to procreate. I don’t know if they are cursed, have a sexual demon or whatever, but if one is truly wanting to be free from it, if one truly loves God, then he can set you free, but first you have to admit it is sin, it is an abomination and that has not changed. Repent, pray, and fast for freedom from it. You can do it and God will set you free. While you’re at it, get out of that pagan Mormon church. God set the standard, gave the rules for his assembly, paganism, false gods are not welcome. If you think God is in heaven creating spirit babies with Mary, you’re dumber than a box a rocks. Se3x is unclean and nothin unclean has a place in the presence of God.

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kadster01
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:24am
If there is any good to come from the impending economic collapse, maybe it will be that people get back on track with what’s really important, instead of being so self-absorbed by trivial things like….who (or what) they want to go to bed with and being accepted for it.

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- CafeConservative
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 5:14pm
  Because the economy is soooooo much more important than the soul, right? Talk about a lack of perspective.
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:34pm
  @CafeConservative
  
  As a heterosexual, I can guarantee you who I have “relations” with is about as detached from my soul as last night’s dinner. If your sexual orientation is the direct link to your soul, I’d say acceptance from society, or the lack thereof, is the least of your problems. You missed my point altogether. We are a soft, spoiled, lazy, complacent, self-absorbed society. It’s why someone like Obama won the most important job in the world…twice. If we are suddenly thrust back into survival mode, maybe then we will at last learn what is really important in this world. Who you want to bone, is not on the list.
  
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Alternative_Thought
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 7:44am
Not gay, sodomite.

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SonOfThunder
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 7:19am
The problem for him is sin for worshipping the wrong god. Mormonism is a cult. Sorry Jesus is not the spirit brother of Lucifer which is what the Mormons believe. Jesus is God which is an essential doctrine of Christianity. There is no wiggle room on that period! I know you Mormons will say oh it is just a little tweak in our theology. beck says that too. Sorry Mormons you are not Christian on that point alone. There is so many differences. One major one again is works. Like Catholics, Mormons say you need Jesus plus works. No no. Ephesians 2 8-9. Faith alone in Jesus gets you in the heaven. You do good works because you are saved. Not to get saved.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Repent and put your trust in Jesus alone.

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23689
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 6:54am
People should trust God and pair up with someone of the opposite sex.

I’m as hetero sexual as they come and happily married to a wonderful woman. But if I lived in an alternate universe where men were partners with men and women with women and those were the kind of relationships from which offspring came and God wanted me in that situation, I’d make it work.

But in this universe where a man and a woman create children it works out pretty well for me. I am attracted to 22 year old cute women who weigh about 113 pounds. Therefore I married one. That was 28 years ago. My wife is now fifty years old and not a 113 pounds. I wish I could magically snap my fingers and make her that way again, because those parameters are my ideal attraction. But of course I can’t. But after all we now share in common including our children and life’s experiences, I love her more than ever.

Orgasm and sex isn’t everything that a marriage needs to be about.

I know of gay men who had children from relationships with women but later decided to become exclusive with men. If sex with a woman is so unappealing to them, how did they even muster the ability to do what it takes to get a woman pregnant?

I don’t see how a gay man, who believes in God can’t find a woman to make his best friend. Best friends then help each other along and take care of each other’s needs, even if things aren’t perfect. The result can lead to children who are part you and part your best frie

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- CafeConservative
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 5:20pm
  I don’t see this as sound advice. A marriage is a lifelong commitment and for Mormons, an eternal one if I understand correctly. This guy understands he’s got a problem and while it is sound for him to put his faith in God, it may not be so wise to drag another person along for that ride. As most people who struggle with sin, there are sometimes lapses and a lapse for him would dreadfully impact his wife.
  
  The better advice would be to put his faith in God to alleviate him of his problems and if God presents him a wife then, and only then, should he pursue marriage. As was stated elsewhere, being celibate for God is a righteous thing and not something to be ashamed of if you can bear that burden.
  
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- 23689
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:10pm
  Hmm…I am a reasonable enough person to think you may be right and I am wrong. However, a few years ago I asked a man I knew if he would be willing to serve as a boy scout leader. He was an eagle scout as a youth and had enrolled his oldest son in scouts. He was a veterinarian and talented in many different hobbies. He declined and in confidence let me know that he suffers from same sex attraction. This stunned me because he was married with children. Whether he was happily married I can only guess. Whether his wife knew of his situation, I don’t know. But for him he seemed quite happy and successful and his children adored him.
  However, I don’t know what went on behind closed doors and am willing to admit you may be right
  
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liltexasgal
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 6:53am
Why even put a story like this on the blaze?

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- Juniemoon
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:37am
  Because it’s about a mormon and Glenn doesn’t care who is sleeping with whom, even if it is scripturally unacceptable. Joseph Smith made their rules and bible. They don’t need God telling them what is an abomination, I guess they think he changed his mind on that even though the Apostle Paul said men don’t lie with men and women do not lie with women.
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:50am
  Because it’s a gay interest story and you’ll find more of those here at TheBlaze than anywhere except GLBT sites.
  
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lessoneleg
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 4:36am
How many people had that wonderful experience of looking into the eyes of their Great Grandmother? Or your Great Grandfather. The look from these people is deep and so filled with pride. Why? Because their genetic imprint is passing along again to another generation of themselves.
Why do Gay’s downplay this connective linkage of aging parentage? they sure do bat around a fair story line of “Family”. Except, tens of thousands of generations of “family” came about because of “one woman & one man” deciding that their connection was worthy of continuation. No two men or two woman can do it, no matter how long winded the argument they present. But one absolute is present in every family, forever. Our aging parents look at the newest generation with a genetically coded pride of passing along themselves. Long after you are gone, there is still a piece of me carrying along.
When a parent finds out or is told by their offspring that they are gay. What do you expect the genetically coded parent to do? Sure, absolutely the parent loves their Son or Daughter. But the tie to future genetic material of “me” being passed along is forever broken with the Gay son or lesbian daughter.
I’m sorry I’m not politically correct, but too bad. I have thousands of generations backing me up.

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CapnCrumbles32
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 4:23am
“Stop living a lie”? You just began living the lie friend! Something that needs to be stated here is that WE ALL HAVE SINFUL URGES! Should I “come out” as a liar? A drunk? An adulterer? A glutin? A thief? Sin wishes to have you, but you must reign over it. We overcome it by repenting, believing and accepting in Christ who bestows us with the power of the Holy Spirit and grants s new life in the core of our dieing bodies. Then we educate ourselves by familiarizing with his word. We all have impure thoughts, we say impure things and we do impure things, but we actively and regularly suppress these urges. The moment you start accepting your sin, making an open and active lifestyle out of it and encouraging others to do the same, you’re in big trouble! It’s called self control and discipline! This nation could use a heaping dose of SHAME. Enriches the spirit, soul and body protects a person from degrading themself. There are thoughts and behaviors we ought to be ashamed of because they are wicked! We ought to resist them and keep them hidden. Imagine a world were we all act out our every thought and desire without contemplating its morality and repercussions …..it would be horrific. Every man has his own vice. It is yours to master. With Gods help you will. Show your loving concern and honor the Lord by praying for this young man and others like him. We weep for you, we pray for you beloved neighbor.

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- CafeConservative
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 5:27pm
  Some would argue that there is value in confession and if you can’t trust in a spiritual brother in your time of need, who can you trust? This man is also using what hasn’t been a sin (he hasn’t practiced homosexuality) to be a show of strength for others who may be struggling and who may not be so strong in their faith. He is being a light on the hill so to speak. He is saying, “you can do it too. You can live and be happy and faithful despite the temptations that you have.”
  
  While I am of a like mind that my sins are not something *I* need to share with others, that I can reach out to God and ask for forgiveness and strength, some sins should arguably be shared if you’ve found a way to conquer them. Sometimes it sufficient to say, “I put my faith in God, I prayed for His assistance, and I overcame.” Sometimes it serves to say that you put your faith in God and tell the specifics of how He led you from your sin because it can help others with the same problem.
  
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betterpart
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:40am
Homosexuals want to be heroes of their own story based on their sex preferences.

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Horsewithnoname
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:39am
This young mormon should be himself, gay or straight, but it looks to me as though he is indulging in trying to make himself the center of everybody’s attention. All drama all the time! Grow up and start helping others. Enough of Boo Boo has a Poo Poo! for one day.

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surfcity
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:32am
I find this rather sad, despite the happy, plucky background music. What’s the point of videotaping his friends’ and family’s reactions, if not in the hopes of capturing a politically incorrect intolerant reaction? Why is it that homosexuals find it necessary to broadcast their sexual preference? Do heterosexuals?

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DIgnified
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 2:36am
There is no god. Therefor there is no reason to judge people. But a s s h a t Christians like being judgmental pri cks so I dont think there being no god matters one way or the other. Good for him. Make them uncomfortable. hehehe

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- CafeConservative
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 6:56pm
  Project much?
  
  Pot. Kettle. Black.
  
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synergy4one
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 2:27am
Having the attraction is one thing. Acting on the attraction is another. If this guy is committed to not acting on his attraction to men, there would be no sin. If a man lies with, not likes with.
What is it with all you people who automatically start bashing Mormons? Not very Christian of you. Makes me think there might be something to this group of clean living, charity doing, God and family centered, group of not perfect people. Can’t we all just live and let live?

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mewnani
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 1:55am
Another gay person comes out and mocks the people who are freaked out in his lifestyle choices on camera. WHO CARES?

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- DIgnified
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 2:37am
  Its funny. Watching bigot squirm from discomfort is almost as good as full fledged suffering.
  
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- CafeConservative
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 5:30pm
  Not as enjoyable as watching a bigot show just how hypocritical he is.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 1:31am
If a gay-mormon marries,…can they have more than one ……er……partner to marry?

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Swordfisch
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:33am
Again a homosexual shouting at the top of their lungs NOTICE ME!!!!!!!!

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roscoe569
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:05am
I am amazed that in 2013 there are still folks out there who assume that the Bible is the true word of God. So if it states that homosexuality is an abomination to God, then it must be so. If it states that women must serve their husband, then it must be so. If it states that Noah collected 2 of every species in the world then it must be so.
You’ve become so ” holier than thou” with your condemnation of someone’s sexuality then you have chosen the worst sin of all: to judge someone else as if you knew what the Creator had in mind when we were hard wired with a sexual DNA that we have no more control over than we do the colour of our skin…….the only voice of Satan is the voice in your head that tells you we are different…..we are the same, we are connected and created by the Master Story Teller. Follow your own story as best as you can and trust that I will do the same

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- Advection
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:29am
  Free will, baby!
  
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- mewnani
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 1:58am
  Just because you believe in what the bible says doesn’t mean you’re a holier-than-thou person. That’s judgmental in itself. I have known a few gay persons in my life and I got along with them just fine until I admitted I was freaked out by what they do in their bedrooms. You aren’t supposed to judge someone on what they believe or do you judge them on who they are. That’s how it always should be.
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:49pm
REPAIRSEA 10:28 re Milk, Prhomos, and Pederasty.
To me the Cognitive Dissonance is most deafening when the Howls for VENGENCE! against the Roman Catholic Church are placed beside the Silence toward NAMBLA.

I remain suspicious that there is some “cherry picking” of Anecdotal evidence going on.
I’m not so sure that “I was born that way” doesn’t lie side by side with “an older man showed me when I was a young teenager” if ALL the Truth was being told.
I honestly can’t shake the intuition that most Male Homosex has a pederasty connection however much it is spun and denied. Check out the Cultural Norm in Afghanistan and other Sandusky cultures of the Baca Bazi Boy.
The most recent wave of Feminist writers are already admitting that Lesbianism, especially in young women, is mostly a de rigeuer Feminist rite of passage that they soon grow out of to have hetro hubbies and kids.
Just the fact the Prhomos lump “bi” into this whole thing undercuts the whole premise of “orientation.”

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- mewnani
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 2:00am
  I actually know a former gay person. He described being gay as an addiction much like drugs and alcohol that warps and twists the body and mind. I would take his word over a so-called “expert” any day of the week as he’s actually been in those shoes.
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:36pm
Advec. 11:27
Yeah I’m aware of the stats on more male siblings the higher the odds. I’m also aware of studies done post mortem on brains of homosexuals born mid 1940s in Germany when their moms were under great stress. Brain hemisphere barrier was more like a females.
But whether that spoke to CAUSE or EFFECT was, of course, un-determinable.
Sorry but I reject the “research was halted” hypothesis. That’s an argument from Silence. Either cough up the gene or the “born that way’ point relies PRIMARILY on anecdotal evidence. NOT something the Science and Medical fields ALLOW in MOST conclusions, as I can speak to from my experience as a Father of an Autistic child.

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- Advection
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:02am
  I never claimed lack of research was evidence. I merely stated that research was started then halted. Then I pointed out other research that wasn’t halted.
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:28pm
Advec 11:16
I got no beef with your exegesis or your hermeneutic. Just wanted to make sure I’d felt the edges out right. Sometimes it ain’t where we start but where we end up, as Francis Schaeffer says–”the logical outcomes of presuppostions.”
No disagreement with your points here. Advec. Didn’t mean to imply one.

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- Advection
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:03am
  Cool beans. Thanks for clearing that up.
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:22pm
LogCabin Repubelickum10:59
“God love[s]everyone” TRUE.
– “who are you to judge who he loves or doesn’t love.” NOBODY. I got to take HIS word for it and when he says “there will be tribulation and distress” and “wrath and indignation” for everyone who does evil,” I gotta take His Word for THAT.
Why do you think YOU don’t have to take Him at His Word?
If you don’t think the Biblical Writers are in any sense speaking AT His COMMAND when they say “wrath” why do you think they speak for Him when they say “Love”?

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Timberline
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:17pm
of course you can fire someone for being gay – I’ve done it – it’s all in how you do it

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- The_Doors_Of_Perception
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:52am
  Couldn’t stop thinking about him could you?
  
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yanki161
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:08pm
Same teaching for Catholics. Thought this was a good presentation on the subject for anyone interested.
http://www.churchmilitant.tv/cia/13homosexuality/

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GotMullet
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:05pm
I object to one thing on The Blaze. They pick and choose what is posted. Too bad. I understand rejecting classless bile…. but facts? True opinion?

Worse than the New York Times…. whom you savage so much on your show. Who is more justified?

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- GotMullet
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:08pm
  I retract this statement. Why does it take so long to post a comment?
  
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- Advection
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:06am
  There seems to be a word filter. I’ve lost several posts for no obvious reason, but when I split the original text into smaller posts, they all posted except for one. I think the word filter isn’t perfect.
  
  On the good side, it’s rare.
  
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GotMullet
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:54pm
Narcissism and flaunting true eternal principles spells Excommunication.

But there is always an eternal principle called Repentance.

I wish you the best. But, the process is clear.

Things are what they “really are”. Read Neal Maxwell. No excuses…. just truth…. regardless as one thinks.

I am not a Judge. Just fallen as all mankind are.

You seem wanting to be cute. But you’re not, in this irretractable, public statement of your personal feelings.

Search your mind and feelings. You may find that they mean nothing, unless they are in order with God’s will. Things are what the are…. not what you suppose them to be.

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- GotMullet
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:56pm
  The pop-culture generation denies so much. It is sad.
  
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- GotMullet
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:19pm
  One more comment….. All are entitled to redemption through repentance, once one recognizes their err. Did you not teach this principle on your mission? Or, did you falsify your testimony? (Perhaps, only because of peer or family pressure?)
  
  Somehow, I get the feeling that you believe that ‘as one thinks, it is so’. Is there truth? Is there God’s will or not? Or is it just a matter of your opinion because you prefer a “gay” lifestyle? If there is only ‘opinion’, then there is nothing. Then life only happens for a few thousand or million years of so…. then it is gone. Poof!
  
  I choose not to believe the finite.
  
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- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:20am
  What in the heck are you talking about? This is a wonderful man living completely in the doctrine of the Church. Repent of what???
  
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- richard the lion-hearted
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:46am
  @crazyrightwingmom
  I would ask what YOU are talking about?! I f the young man says he’s gay, he denies the faith, if the young man thinks he’s gay he has cause to repent, daily, for ‘unclean’ thoughts. We DO NOT condemn the sinner but we in NO WAY glorify, appease, or accept the act or behavior.
  
  For this young man to ‘come out’ the way that he did has caused a great sin to happen. His ‘Youtube’ video is now going to not only be used as a tool to confuse, and misrepresent faith, sin, and accountability…but he alone has given the ‘the adversary’ power to further his purposes. A grave sin indeed. If you have homosexual temptations as a person of sound faith, then not only must you deny those feelings and repent constantly, but you must not share it in a way that says it’s acceptable, him saying he is gay is a LIE, that’s like saying I’m a murderer but I just don’t intend to ‘act’ on those feelings. A grievous error on this young man’s part of which the consequences have yet to be realized.
  
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- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:54am
  Dear Got: Don’t know if you are LDS but the FEELINGS are not a sin, says President Monson, so why don’t you deal with him?
  
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- richard the lion-hearted
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:17am
  President Monson, in keeping with all scriptual references did not error obviously, but where you error is in the ‘feelings’ aspect. The feeling of love and attraction in and of themselves may not be a sin, but if it becomes sexual (of which I challenge you to deny in ANY instance) then it IS sin, there is no disputing the scrptures unless you are a fool (not you presonally to clarify).
  
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- GetRight
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:16pm
  I agree with you, CRAZY! I am not LDS but I am a Christian. We all struggle with issues in our hearts, whether it is anger, jealousy, or even heterosexual lust. We are all human, prone to sin and struggle daily. This guy is an inspiration because he is admitting to his struggle which I know must be very shameful for him as a Mormon. But he offers encouragement to others because he is choosing his faith over his sin and vows to not act on his tendency. So many young people do not consider that option. They think if they are struggling with homosexual attraction they must live a gay lifestyle. Not true! It does suck for him and I hope he can stay strong. It will be very difficult for him going forward. And GOTMULLET, do you not struggle with sin? You must have sinful tendencies that you must fight against acting on and ask repentance for, right?
  
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- jblaze
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:47pm
  Blammo
  
  You are awesome!
  
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- jblaze
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 1:33pm
  Think about it! WHAT would make a males sexually attracted to other males (or women to other women)? 1) Biologically only a male and female can reproduce and create a child. 2) Only a male can be a Father and only a Female can be a mother (pretenders don’t count); 3) The reproduction organ of a male can only naturally impregnate a female by….you know the rest of the story;
  So the main purpose of sex is reproduction, but our creator made us so we could have pleasure during this process. The act when done the way our creator ordained it…two becoming one through marriage then sex; creating a family, husband and wife then creating a child if so blessed and becoming Father and Mother.
  
  What part of the aforementioned would totally be unnatural if brought into the equation?
  
  Gays on the other hand want it this way. A male (or female) sexually attacked to another male (female same) in the case of males they get together trying to duplicate the male-female role but cannot so they find another place to put it that they feel represents a female! Now the female gays have to use a object of some sort to mimic the male role. Etc., etc., etc., Does anyone else see the fallacy in this. To me it is a plain and simply mental perversion going on in someone head.
  
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- Amarath01
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 1:44pm
  Was Jesus GAY? Was he straight? WE don’t know, one could say he was celibate. If this dude lives a celibate life has he not followed Jesus’ example? One could state this might encourage more people to be gay, this could be true; but another might say this might encourage more gay people to to be separated from god.
  You wish to pass the sin of defiling his body with samesex intercourse on him when he has no such sin.
  
  Tho i feel its super sad he feels like he must live without a basic part of the human experiences…. yet i have for very different reasons.. i cannot find a commented person, tons of people walk the steps very few have done the intellectual work/thought about it enough to understand them.
  
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- richard the lion-hearted
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 2:01pm
  JBLAZE ~ Sooo right!!! I know people’s feelings get hurt and some are fragile by their very nature but a spade is a spade, right is right, filthiness is filthiness. I pray for those under the ‘GREAT DECEPTION’ of our day, discern between the sin and the ‘feelings’ of the offender. There is GREAT danger associated with the sin of homosexuality, disease, warping of everlasting gospel truths, going against the very first commandment of the Holy Bible, “Be fruitful and multiply”. Not “Be fruity and have multible partners…” sorry.
  The wisdom in this first great commandment? The answer is that in a world constantly at odds with the depraved wickedness that mankind is capable of through the temptations of the fallen, it is all the more important for God fearing saints to bring ‘righteous’ seed into the world to combat the evil that exists. Wisdom is found in ALL God’s teachings.
  
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- richard the lion-hearted
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 2:13pm
  @Amarath01
  You are an ignorant person, was Jesus gay? You know nothing of the scriptures and for you to equate everyone else to your ignorance is nothing short of amazingly foolish. Jesus IS our God, power given to Him by Heavenly Father, Jesus has condemned homosexuality (in scripture), beastiality, fornication (any sex outside of marriage, I know you’re limited), and even the very thoughts thereoof (meaning of everything I just mentioned) because they had ALLbeen done beforehand by the early generations. So please leave your comments in the form of a question being that you obviously have no solid footing to even draw a conclusion from and are in need of sound council.
  
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- CafeConservative
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:42pm
  After watching the video, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not sure what is going on in this guy’s head. I’m weighing that he has made a decision to be strong and consistent with his faith which is to not engage in homosexual behavior. As others have stated, temptation or desires in and of themselves are not sins. If he is not actively lusting after other men, he’s not sinning.
  
  I do have concerns about the lackadaisical tone to his video but without speaking to him, I can’t attribute bad motives. There is concern that he may be overly embracing homosexuality as simply “that’s just who I am” based on how casually he talks about it. The only problem with that conclusion is that it assumes the laughing is a matter of comic lightheartedness rather than nervousness or an attempt to avoid an over-reaction from his friends and family. There isn’t enough information to determine one way or another.
  
  What we do know is that both Christianity and Judaism (the root of Christianity) denounce homosexual behavior in no uncertain terms. Instead of rationalizing and justifying homosexuality, the man has seemingly turned to God and said I will defy this behavior and accept your Will without question, regret, or hesitation. Arguably, he may be combating his temptations better than the average straight Christian (this one included) and God bless him and support him in that. Let’s not forget he is young and has much maturing and growing in his faith to do still.
  
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- RogueRequest
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 7:58pm
  Being a gay mormon is a bit like being a Jew who eats pork on a regular basis and then tells other Jews that they need to be more tolerant of his pork eating tendencies and that they are bigots for not changing their religion to include the eating of pork. Or a Buddhist that eats beef and does the same, claiming that he’s being discriminated against by his fellow Buddhists when they refuse to change their opinion on his behavior.
  
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- Obama_In_Zee_PeePee_By_Glenn_Beck
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 5:11am
  “Gay Mormon Comes Out to His Friends and Family Over 1 Year Period — and Captures Their Reactions in This Video Montage”
  
  LOL! … you KNOW something is wrong (and funny) when the fággóts want you to believe EVERYONE ELSE is doing something WRONG. What we REALLY have is a deliberately hidden DISEASE EPIDEMIC raging in the United States:
  
  AIDS Rate 50 Times Higher in Homosexual Men: Center for Disease Control
  http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2009/aug/09082609
  
  HIV/AIDS Statistics : “Approximately 40,000 new HIV infections occur each year in the United States, about 70 percent among men and 30 percent among women. Of these newly infected people, half are younger than 25 years of age. Of new infections among men in the United States, CDC estimates that approximately 60 percent of men were infected through homosexual sex”
  http://www.thebody.com/content/art6580.html
  
  OUR problem, as a nation, is that we SHOULD be executing them for those abominable crimes. That is called being Right:
  
  “If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.” -Lev 20:13, Holy Bible
  
  Because it’s THAT SERIOUS a crime.
  
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- ajgrisel
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:32am
  WOW….
  Matt 7:1 for you…”judge not that you may be not judged.”
  
  Now then, with your interpretation of the scriptures, should we now forbid a hermaphrodite to marry. A person born with both male and female parts. Or, do they have the choice where a gay person does not. Who can know which they are… male or female… THAT’S RIGHT! only they and God know which spirit they have and into what kind of body/spacesuit/vehicle they will live life with.
  
  Pay close attention: 1 Tim 4:3… “….forbidding to marry”
  
  Enlightenment cometh to all. Yes, even with the Mormon leadership. ie; African American’s now hold the priesthood in the LDS church. Direct quote from the prophet held that withholding the priesthood from African American’s was a “PRACTICE OF THE CHURCH” not a ‘GOSPEL DOCTRINE” as Joseph Smith knew as he ordained black men to the priesthood.
  
  2 Peter 3:16…. “As also, in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which many are hard to be understood. Which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as do they all, unto there own destruction.”
  
  Clearly you are not paying close attention to the still-small-voice that countermands this simple truth that we are all different in some way.
  
  And finally, Collosian’s 3:16…”Let the word of Christ dwell you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs, singing with Grace in your hearts to the Lord.”
  
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- TEIN
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:29pm
  I will say it again…there is no “GAY” people…there are homosexual acts..to say you are “gay” and that is what you are is to deny you can ever choose what and how you want, hence lose of right to choose….Feeling or attraction do not define what you are, acts do…if “feelings” where the defining factor then most 13 year old boys should be defined as promiscuous rapist….. Jimmy has feelings, but he has choice..he can choose not to get married because of “feeling/attraction”, get married, move in with same sex, or move in with opposite sex it is his choice regardless of your attraction or feeling…but Jimmy…you are NOT gay….
  
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