Religion and Politics

Catholic Couple Puts Faith in Action for LGBT Youth

CNN’s Lauren Lee-Johnson profiles Catholic parents Deb and Steve Word, who became LGBT advocates after learning that one of their sons was gay. Only when their son was 23 years old did he finally come out to them. “I said, ‘Why did you take so long to tell us?’ He said, ‘It’s your club. You know the rules,’” Deb Word said. “‘As Catholic parents – it broke our hearts that we weren’t able to kind of shield him from some of that.’”

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