KETV, an ABC affiliate in Omaha."They told me, since I'm a leader, they wouldn't want me promoting things that they're against," said the eighth-grader and Lincoln native.
The coverage did not include his last name or the name of the church in order to highlight the positive news that came afterward.Gabriel's mother, Colleen, posted about her son's experience on Facebook. "It only took a matter of hours.
It got really big really fast," she said. And the reaction was "overwhelmingly positive.""It was unreal how positive it was," recounted Colleen, who had initially feared a negative backlash and switched the story to private.However, a flood of support came, and it wasn't just digital.