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Luke Evans’ faith made him think being gay would be a “death sentence”. The ‘Beauty and the Beast’ actor was raised a Jehovah’s Witness and was baptised at the age of 13 as he saw it as his final chance at salvation while struggling to come to terms with his sexuality and the church’s belief that those who were attracted to the same sex would “die at Armageddon”. He told The Guardian newspaper about his baptism: “I thought maybe by doing that, the rest would disappear. I was so confused, and I had no one to talk to. The only thing I could talk about to people I knew was the religion. It consum…

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