Karl_ wrote:LightWanderer wrote:the gay porn site MormonBoyz
Thanks for taking our questions in good humour LightWanderer. Interesting to hear from a Mormon, pretty unusual religion to say the least.
I do have a question out of curiosity if you don't mind. You mentioned that LDS is a different sect to your parents', so how come you chose it? Why LDS and not a more mainstream church?
That website actually exists. I hate it because it shows a certain article of clothing members wear that should not be fetishised but it's a surprisingly popular website..Yeah, our church used to have a saying before the name change. "We Mormons are a most peculiar people". We know how kooky we are. Many people hate how much ridicule we get but honestly it's a lot better to just embrace the wackiness and realise we're all humans trying to find our path in life and we're all going to do stuff that other people find a little bizarre.
My parents are very conservative (moreso my mom. My dad just does what she says) Catholic. Hard environment to grow up in being gay. Went right off religion for a long time.
Then during my late teens/early twenties (so a few years ago) I went through some very difficult crap. Ended up in a very bad place because of the lifestyle I wanted to persue without much support around. Was about to end it all when I felt God telling me to hang in there. He had a plan for me. He'd bring something great into my life if I just weathered out the difficult stuff.
Skip forward a few months. Things are improving. I'm looking for a way to get back in touch with God. Don't feel like the Catholic church is the true church (many of its priests have attacked children). Read up about every religion. Buddhism, Islam. Realize I need a church that focuses on Christ. Watch a movie about the early life of church founder Joseph Smith. His confusion is similar to my own.
Meet up with missionaries to find out more. Love how much more sense it makes than Catholicism (different kingdoms of Heaven instead of just Heaven and Hell, the chance to receive the gospel in the next life if we don't get it in this life)
One of the missionaries was clever. He said in the very first lesson "do you want to be baptised." I mistakenly thought that if I said no, I'd lose my chance for life so I didn't want to say no, especially since it made a lot of sense. I could always quit later if it turned out to be false, and God would understand my baptism as just part of my efforts to get closer to Him.
Three years later and I'm still a member. I'm struggling a lot recently with the whole gay thing (LDS God has no plan for gay people that doesn't include a lot of suffering) but I'm enduring. I know God is real. God is love. And if there comes a time that God wants me to leave the church and get close to Him another way He will show me.