Mormon Church releases video about 'accepting' gay children
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has produced a video about a heterosexual, Mormon couple accepting their gay son.
The video tells the story of Xian Mackintosh, who came out to his parents via Facebook. His parents reacted negatively – his mother suggested testosterone treatments and his father asked Xian why he chose to be gay. For several years, they say, they continued to have difficulty accepting their son.
Xian’s father also talks about his indoctrination in a homophobic culture. “In my mind, they had chosen this. And if they chose this, then they deserved every bit of negativity I can give them,” he said.
He then began to understand that his son didn’t choose to be gay. “And once that hit me, the pain and the suffering and all the jokes that I had told him, all the mean comments, all the times I said something snide about somebody else and to the whole family and him sitting there in that back seat, sitting there thinking, ‘My dad has no idea he’s talking about me.’ All those times came flooding back to me, all the pain that my son had gone through.”
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