Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds opens up about why he left the Mormon church and his 'complicated' relationship with religion Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By Alesia Stanford For Dailymail.Com Published: 13:38 EDT, 7 July 2024 | Updated: 14:04 EDT, 7 July 2024 e-mail View comments Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds has opened up about his 'complicated' relationship with religion.
The hitmaker, 36, who said he has a 'happy, healthy' relationship with girlfriend Minka Kelly , was brought up in Las Vegas , NV, as the seventh of nine children in a 'really conservative' family that belonged to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon church. 'There’s obviously parts of the Mormon religion that I feel pretty strongly are harmful, especially to our gay youth,' the frontman told People . The church website states that 'same-sex attraction is a complex reality for many people.
The attraction itself is not a sin, but acting on it is.' The Believer singer formed the LoveLoud Foundation in 2017, to support the LBGTQ community. Dan Reynolds, 36, has opened up about the reasons he left the Mormon church.
'There’s obviously parts of the Mormon religion that I feel pretty strongly are harmful, especially to our gay youth,' he said (Pictured in Tel Aviv in August 2023) During the interview, he admitted that, at times, since his departure from the church he feels 'pretty isolated from' his family.' 'But I also love them and am close.
