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“Rolling Stone” Features Two Gay Mormons Brus: “I stubbornly continue to consider myself a Mormon” by Seba Martinez May 2006 The Chilean edition of the magazine Rolling Stone featured two members of Affirmation Chile in a May 2006 article titled "El Otro Rebaño" ("The Other Flock"). Brus Leguás Contreras, founder and president of Affirmation in Chile, is featured along with Marcelo Leiva, who til recently served as director of Affirmation in Santiago de Chile. "To be Mormon is part of my life," said Marcelo during the Rolling Stone interview. "I can interpret the law of chastity as it applies to my life. There's virtue in the fact that I have a partner and am faithful to him." In a section dedicated to Brus Leguás Contreras, the article describes many of the challenges Brus has had to overcome, including the death of his partner of 10 years, his excommunication from the Mormon Chruch, and a recent fire that almost completely destroyed his home. The article describes Brus as "an affable person who despite [so much adversity] never loses his optimism or sense of humor." "Despite my excommunication, I have never considered myself to be out of the Chruch," said Brus. "My relationship with God is personal. In this day and age the Church has to come to realize that its conceptions about sexuality are wrong. I stubbornly continue to consider myself a Mormon." |
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