re: Elizabeth Smart's dad, Ed, comes out as gay

In reading the entire article, the original quote is a bit out of context given the paragraph below that immediately precedes the quote provided in the OP:

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“To have Elizabeth come back was huge. To have our family be able to move forward from that was huge,” he said. “And I was at a crossroads where I was going to be causing difficulty in my family.”

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In contextual terms, I think he is saying that this is more difficult as his decision to come out would cause problems (divorce) in his family. I don’t read this as his saying that his coming out (as a singular decision) is more difficult. He views the result of his decision as more difficult on his family as he is the one causing the difficulty.