I still find him very delightful and when I was done talking with him, I just had to tell him that I thought he was an intelligent, thoughtful, moral person. I've known him more than 15 years, he was a delight to have around our house when he and my son were growing up. He'll tell us the advice that changed his life and allowed him to believe that being who he is was not a sin. This conversation is helpful to any Mormon to better understand the life of a gay member, and especially if you are dealing with this issue in your family. I hope you will grasp the internal struggle as he honestly recounts his experiences, and no matter how you feel about gay issues, especially Mormon gay issues, I think you will be touched and maybe surprised, at the depth of his commitment to his upbringing, but that holding to those beliefs were leading to feelings of suicide. I think you will appreciate his sincerity, his struggle to live his religion, and the events that lead to his leaving it. This is an interview I had with my son's best friend from high school he's a return missionary, gay, and living with his partner in SLC.
