{"id":18395,"date":"2017-06-20T21:25:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=18395"},"modified":"2017-06-20T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T21:27:50","slug":"12-year-old-comes-mormon-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2017\/06\/12-year-old-comes-mormon-church\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old comes out to her Mormon church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mormon72017-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God loves me just this way, because he loves all his creations.  I do believe he made me this way on purpose.  No part of me is a mistake. I do not choose to be this way and it is not a fad. I cannot make someone else gay and being around me won\u2019t make anyone else this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/19\/us\/coming-out-as-mormon-and-gay-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Savannah Ward boldly came out as a lesbian to her Mormon church in Utah before she was asked to leave the stage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/19\/us\/coming-out-as-mormon-and-gay-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">in a moment captured on video<\/a>.  She came out to her parents in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Savannah, 12, made a decision this January; she was going to come out as lesbian at her Mormon Church. Nothing was going to stop her.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a typical &#8220;tween&#8221; in Utah: She loves to draw and make art. When she grows up, she wants to be a Disney animator. 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