Real World

's Chet: Mormons Aren't Antigay

As The Real World: Brooklyn prepares for its season finale on Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Times chatted in New York with the series' Mormon cast member, Chet Cannon .

The paper asked Cannon, 24, what message he tried to give viewers this season.

"I wanted to show people you can't distinguish a Mormon by his appearance," Cannon told reporter Choire Sicha.

The Utah native also said that his religion did not conflict with the message of MTV's new biopic about Pedro Zamora. Zamora was a gay cast member of The Real World: San Francisco who educated the nation about HIV/AIDS before his death in 1994.

"A couple people take the LDS Church for being antigay and they're not at all," Cannon said. "They're very pro-family, but they're not antigay."

When pressed about the Mormon role in the passage of Proposition 8, Cannon continued to defend the church.

"People want to get on the LDS Church," he said. "They don't even have enough members in California that the vote could be swayed. To isolate the LDS Church and attack them is unfair."