The 'American Idol' alumnus recalls his mom saying, 'I don't want to be somewhere where my children don't feel loved and welcomed. And if you're going to hell, then we're all going to hell with you.'
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“I don’t need you to accept what I’m doing, I just need you to respect that I’m making the best decision for me right now,” Archuleta remembered telling her. “I don’t think I ever seen an LGBTQ plus sitting at church. If they were sitting there, they were probably hiding,” she said. “That’s when I thought, God is not here, because God is love. There’s no way he’s just saying, ‘Yep, you belong here,’ and ‘No, you don’t belong here.’”
Archuleta said that he had fasted, prayed, and went to church as much as he could in hopes of removing his attraction to men — all at the expense of his mental health. He only found peace when he began to accept himself as a queer person.
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