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God's Other Plan
What happens when the adult son of a Mormon family realizes that the perfectly planned life determined by his religion is wrong for him? Riley is gay, he suspected it earlier, but prayed it would go away. He is now divorced from his wife, married to a man, and no longer a Mormon. He lives with his biological daughter and an adopted son in a patchwork family. How does his Mormon family, especially his ex-wife, deal with this profound change?
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What happens when the adult son of a Mormon family realizes that the perfectly planned life determined by his religion is wrong for him? Riley is gay, he suspected it earlier, but prayed it would go away. He is now divorced from his wife, married to a man, and no longer a Mormon. He lives with his biological daughter and an adopted son in a patchwork family. How does his Mormon family, especially his ex-wife, deal with this profound change?
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Genre:Documentary
Written By:Moritz Müller-Preißer
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