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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 743465" data-attributes="member: 2205">But there are, at least, two areas in which being Mormon is easier than being gay, I suspect.  Many Mormons have their family, which is not only supportive, but actively doing the same thing.  In my case, my entire extended family are active, practicing members of the Mormon church, as is my wife's family.And, we have a built in community almost everywhere we go.  All I have to do is actually go to church, and we've got a bunch of people that are part of the same thing.Both of those, while not true for every Mormon, are true for most, and neither of those are probably common amongst gay people.But, yeah, there's some bad stuff too.  A pretty good friend of mine, for instance (actually, now he's sorta family, since he married my wife's cousin) was essentially disowned from his family when he joined the church, and cut off from his financial support (he was in college at the time, so it was quite a blow.)  Without thinking too hard about it, I can think of about half a dozen folks I know who had exactly the same thing happen to them.  I also remember at least twice as a kid having friends that couldn't come over to my house to play because their parents woudln't let them.  So I think the situation at least has some parallels.Anyway, sorry for the tangent, I'm not trying to get sympathy or anything like that, just trying to understand.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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