00:00To go this path is to stay alive, and to not is to essentially die.
00:08I was standing in the Seoul Olympic Stadium in Korea,
00:13clenching the hand of a man that I had met just a month before and was about to marry.
00:22My marriage was arranged by a man named Reverend Sun Myung Moon,
00:27who is the founder of the Unification Church, a group otherwise known as the Moonies.
00:32This must be the second coming of Christ.
00:36God's hope for America.
00:39Everybody knew about Moonies and how they brainwashed.
00:43You don't really realize you can brainwash at the time.
00:48If you looked at it from the surface, we had a nice life.
00:51We were the perfect family.
00:53I felt like they were choosing the church over me.
00:57I always knew I was gay.
01:02Like, I wanted to die, basically, everything.
01:05How do you feel about being involved in a church that condemns your son in that way?
01:15How did you break out of that cult?
01:18To me, the church never felt like a cult.
01:21It was just an extension of my family.
01:23How do you walk away from family?
01:27How do you walk away from family?
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