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YouTube sensation Antoine Dodson confirmed Friday afternoon that he has renounced homosexuality and would like to get married to a woman and have children. Dodson rose to fame in 2010 when his TV news rant about a man who broke into his sister's Huntsville public housing apartment was made into a YouTube video. The "Bed Intruder Song" went viral with more than 114 million views.
Dodson has since popped up in the public eye for various things, including his July 2012 defense of Chik-fil-A owner President Dan Cathy for saying he supported the Biblical definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. Dodson, who confirmed he was gay at the time, said he supported Cathy's right to say what he believed and that Dodson would continue to eat the chain's chicken sandwiches.
The latest brush with national news came Thursday when Dodson posted a declaration on his Facebook page that, " I have to renounce myself, I'm no longer into homosexuality I want a wife and family, I want to multiply and raise and love my family that I create." In a Friday interview with al.com, Dodson said, "A light just came on in my mind," leading him to decide that he no longer wanted to be gay.
"I am not getting anything out of it," Dodson said of his former lifestyle. "I am not having any children," unlike his sisters and brothers who have children they love and enjoy.
While he knows he could possibly adopt children, Dodson said that's not what he wants. "Not only do I want children, I want to have a wife," he said. "To do that, I have to identify the problem. I have to renounce (being gay)."
Dodson, who grew up in Chicago, said he "came out of the closet" when he was 14 or 15 but had been teased about being a homosexual from the time he was little. "My family always said I had feminine ways," he said. He said his father was never in his life and that he lacked any positive male role models. That along with several sexual assaults "more and more pushed me into being gay."
While he "came out" as a young teen, Dodson said he had dated girls before then and had even been sexually active with them.
Dodson's declaration that he is no longer gay comes from a religious conversion. He has been reading the Bible, he said, and learning about the Hebrew Israelites, who he said are the descendants of the tribe of Judah, one of the 12 tribes of Israel.
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