Bryan Egnew grew up in an observant LDS family in Arizona, the fourth of ten children. After graduating high school, he attended Brigham Young University, served a proselytizing mission in France, and then married in an LDS temple. He became the father of five children. He served in his local LDS congregation. He did everything that was asked of him.
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And over the course of more than twenty years, Bryan slowly came to terms with the fact that he was attracted to men….
The reaction, Jahn says, was much the same when Bryan sat down with his own wife to confide in her. She also became very upset. And she packed the five kids (ages 6 to 16), moved them across state lines from the family’s home in North Carolina to Tennessee, and initiated legal proceedings to prevent Bryan from seeing them. She also contacted the bishop in her local Mormon congregation and “confessed Bryan’s sins for him.”
Within two weeks, Bryan was excommunicated from the LDS Church. From the perspective of Mormon doctrine, his excommunication severed Bryan’s relationship to his children not only in this life, but also in the hereafter.
Alone in his home in North Carolina, Bryan was devastated. His parents flew out to be with him, then brought him back to Arizona for intensive treatment for depression…
After a few weeks of therapy, Bryan convinced his parents and his therapist that he was stable enough to return home to North Carolina, so he could look after the family home. Back in North Carolina, on Saturday, September 10, Bryan bought a gun at Wal-Mart. He fed the family’s animals, cleaned the house, handed the keys to a neighbor, sent a message to a family member that they needed to come to the house, and then went on the front lawn and shot himself.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/joannabrooks/5204/suicide_leads_to_calls_for_improved_treatment_of_lgbt_mormons__/
Is this not one of the saddest stories you have ever read? Father of five, faithful follower of his faith, and literally thrown out of his home and his church/Temple. For what? I know I am not supposed to get all emotional on this blog, and I regret when I hve crossed that line, but I just can’t help it, these true life real life situations break my heart. They break my heart. It is because of religion that sexual minorities are persecuted. Maybe not every religion but most of them. I am sure that it did not help Bryan Egnew’s state of mind to be living in North Carolina a State that has recently voted to put a Constituitional Amendment referendum barring same sex in the 2012 elections.
These stories really really trouble me, they break my heart.

Bryan Egnew grew up in an observant LDS family in Arizona, the fourth of ten children. After graduating high school, he attended Brigham Young University, served a proselytizing mission in France, and then married in an LDS temple. He became the father of five children. He served in his local LDS congregation. He did everything that was asked of him.
…
And over the course of more than twenty years, Bryan slowly came to terms with the fact that he was attracted to men….
The reaction, Jahn says, was much the same when Bryan sat down with his own wife to confide in her. She also became very upset. And she packed the five kids (ages 6 to 16), moved them across state lines from the family’s home in North Carolina to Tennessee, and initiated legal proceedings to prevent Bryan from seeing them. She also contacted the bishop in her local Mormon congregation and “confessed Bryan’s sins for him.”
Within two weeks, Bryan was excommunicated from the LDS Church. From the perspective of Mormon doctrine, his excommunication severed Bryan’s relationship to his children not only in this life, but also in the hereafter.
Alone in his home in North Carolina, Bryan was devastated. His parents flew out to be with him, then brought him back to Arizona for intensive treatment for depression…
After a few weeks of therapy, Bryan convinced his parents and his therapist that he was stable enough to return home to North Carolina, so he could look after the family home. Back in North Carolina, on Saturday, September 10, Bryan bought a gun at Wal-Mart. He fed the family’s animals, cleaned the house, handed the keys to a neighbor, sent a message to a family member that they needed to come to the house, and then went on the front lawn and shot himself.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/joannabrooks/5204/suicide_leads_to_calls_for_improved_treatment_of_lgbt_mormons__/
Is this not one of the saddest stories you have ever read? Father of five, faithful follower of his faith, and literally thrown out of his home and his church/Temple. For what? I know I am not supposed to get all emotional on this blog, and I regret when I hve crossed that line, but I just can’t help it, these true life real life situations break my heart. They break my heart. It is because of religion that sexual minorities are persecuted. Maybe not every religion but most of them. I am sure that it did not help Bryan Egnew’s state of mind to be living in North Carolina a State that has recently voted to put a Constituitional Amendment referendum barring same sex in the 2012 elections.
These stories really really trouble me, they break my heart.

patients may prefer a risky treatment to the state of untreated misery they are living in.

Well yes especially if they are misinformed by the therapist on the likelyhood of being able to change

patients may prefer a risky treatment to the state of untreated misery they are living in.

Well yes especially if they are misinformed by the therapist on the likelyhood of being able to change