'Real World' Star Gives Emotional Farewell to Mormon Church (Video)

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Watch This Real World Star Give an Emotional Farewell to Mormon Church
Here in its entirety is what MTV dared not show you: the whole, moving speech Christopher Ammon gave after taking part in a mass resignation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Watch This Real World Star Give an Emotional Farewell to Mormon Church

Here in its entirety is what MTV dared not show you: the whole, moving speech Christopher Ammon gave after taking part in a mass resignation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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Jace Yarbrough is running in the GOP primary for Texas's 32nd Congressional District.

The pollster expects the LGBTQ+ percentage to rise in the coming years as more members of Generation Z become adults.

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