On Monday, ABC’s Good Morning America circled the drain of morality by gushing over former American Idol contestant David Archuleta’s new memoir and its thesis that, in order to truly “accept himself and embrace his sexuality,” he had to “lose his faith” in God and toxicity in the Mormon Church.
It came as no surprise that Disney-owned ABC News has little interest in painting faith in God as a good thing given how the same newscast deceptively edited out on February 5 mentions of God, Jesus, and prayer from the first video by Savannah Guthrie and her siblings regarding the search for their missing mother.
Filling in as co-host, chief White House correspondent and one-time Biden regime apple polisher Mary Bruce teased a segment with Archuleta explaining “how — his new memoir and — and how he had to lose his faith to find himself.”
Monday's 'Good Morning America' celebrated David Archuleta's new memoir and gushed over the fact that he found happiness by ditching his belief in God and religion, specifically the Mormon Church pic.twitter.com/kSJXx5fHqr
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She cued up correspondent Steve Osunsami to tell them more on Archuleta’s memoir “about growing up in the Mormon Church and how he learned to accept himself and embrace his sexuality.”
Osunsami gushed the “book is as much a memoir as it is a story about healing and survival” with Archuleta “admitting to the fact that his struggles with sexuality and faith once led him to consider taking his own life,” but overcame it by realizing “the person who he’s learned to care about the most is himself.”
“Singer David Archuleta says he started writing his new book after one of his concerts when he was approached by a gay fan who reminded him of his younger self, a young man who was Mormon and who was struggling to come out to his family,” he added.
The conversation focused on his disgust with Mormonism and his father (click “expand”):
OSUNSAMI: In his new memoir Devout, the now 35-year-old shares his journey from his childhood in the Mormon Church to his teenage years on American Idol to his recent exit from the church after revealing to the world that he is now dating men.
ARCHULETA: I was so devout to my religion. I was so devout to the authority figures in my life. I was constantly seeking their approval.
OSUNSAMI: One of those people was his father, who in his book says would belittle him and who had a reputation around Hollywood as a difficult stage dad. [TO ARCHULETA] How hard was it for you to write about your father’s role in all of this?
ARCHULETA: It was difficult because I — I think I’ve looked at him so often as, like, a threat to my peace. I was still seeing things through the eyes of my younger self, and the way that I’d coped and, like, moved on from it was simply just cutting it off, blocking it out, even though I’m in my mid-thirties now. I — I would revert back to being a child and being afraid like I was as a kid. I’m like, why — why is — why is this happening?
OSUNSAMI: At the same time, he says it was his same father who changed his life, surprising him with tickets to the finale of the first season of American Idol and encouraging him to sing here right after the show in front of cameras from Good Morning America. He was just 11 years old.
ARCHULETA: Oh my gosh, that’s so funny. It helped spark a dream in me. And I think that’s where it was helpful to have my dad say, yes you can, even though I hated him for it, and we butt heads so much, and I was afraid of him.
OSUNSAMI: His father told People magazine that “I love my son with all my heart” and doesn’t believe he was abusive, saying that “I’ve never felt like that was the case...I think a lot of times intention can be misinterpreted.”
ARCHULETA: I was angry at myself, I was angry at my dad, but I feel like I channeled that into a healthy way to say no more. Enough. And when I came out, all he said was, David, I’m proud of you and keep it, keep doing what you’re doing. It — it meant so much. Like, it was healing for me.
Asked to explain where he currently stands in his faith, Archuleta gave the most generic liberal, irreligious answer:
I don’t consider myself religious now because if that’s what you say God is, then I don’t want that. But I believe that there’s something divine and something universal that connects all of us together. That’s why I wrote this book, that’s why I sing, because I wanted to connect to everything around me.
Osusami concluded with more lamentations: “For so many years, he says the Mormon Church put him on a pedestal. He says all that began to change when he began to realize who he really is. He says he’s willing to continue conversations with the Church if indeed the goal is to bring more of God’s children into the fold.”
Bruce responded this was “such a powerful and important message...for so many who may be struggling as well.”
Exit question: Would ABC ever be caught doing a story painting Islam as judgy and anti-gay?
To see the relevant ABC transcript from February 17, click here.
