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When Jake Abhau’s son, Jon, was 13, he told his parents he was gay. Abhau and his wife, Meg, felt speechless. They were members of the Church Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints and they worried how their community would react to Jon. “We were shocked,” Abhau told TODAY. “We had no idea what to expect.” While Abhau urged his son to wait to come out, Jon felt he needed to be true to himself. “He wanted to come out to everyone. He said, ‘This is who I am. I don’t care I am gay.
Abhau also shared the sadness he first felt when he realized that he and Meg would never have a daughter-in-law or Jon couldn’t go on a mission like most Mormon teens. “It’s all the things you incorrectly assume. You sort of mourn the loss of the future that you expected for your kid. So that often gets interpreted as sadness not acceptance,” he said. Donald Christensen got involved in Dragon Dads when his daughter, Mia, came out at age 17.
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