1436: When A Gay Mormon Man Marries a Woman - Kyle Ashworth Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 258 minutes
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Summary
Happy Utah Pride Week everyone! To celebrate Utah Pride week, I am sharing one of the most important interviews in the history of Mormon Stories Podcast. It is the story of Kyle Ashworth – a dear, brilliant, talented friend, and the host of Latter Gay Stories podcast.
This interview is important for at least 3 reasons:
- Kyle is a truly brilliant, caring human. That should be enough.
- It conveys super powerfully the myriad of ways in which the Mormon Church harms its LGBTQ members AND its straight members – including a deep dive into the serious problems of mixed-orientation marriages within Mormonism, along with the deep ineffectiveness and deceptiveness of organizations like North Star International.
- Finally, It is ultimately a story of “love winning out” as Kyle, his ex-wife, and her family fulfill their mantra, “One Family, Two homes.”
Today we will show Part 1 of the interview, and tomorrow we will share Part 2.
Please watch and enjoy, and please spread the word!!!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Delin. It is June 1st |
| 0:06.8 | 2021 and |
| 0:08.3 | Today we are interviewing one of my favorite humans and I mean that we're interviewing someone super special and it's gonna be a very epic interview |
| 0:15.8 | His name is Kyle Ashworth. Hey Kyle welcome. Thank you John. Thanks for joining us. I'm excited to be here |
| 0:21.9 | Yeah, so Kyle Ashworth is amazing in so many ways. He is a real estate developer here in Utah |
| 0:28.6 | But I got to know Kyle on our trip to what Bill Reels like to see me in occasion. Is that right? Yeah, that was |
| 0:35.1 | Was a few years ago. Yeah, a few years ago |
| 0:37.7 | But Kyle is is known more broadly for being the host of ladder gay stories podcast for those of you don't know |
| 0:45.2 | Let me back up |
| 0:45.9 | So it's Pride week here in the United Pride month here in the United States. It's Pride week here in Utah and |
| 0:52.3 | Kyle is the host of ladder gay stories podcast |
| 0:55.3 | But Kyle is so much more than just a gay man. He's just a human who's extremely intelligent very insightful |
| 1:02.9 | very wise very diplomatic and |
| 1:05.5 | Just to kind of give a tiny bit of backstory |
| 1:07.8 | When I really wanted to help generate content around LGBT Q things within Mormonism |
| 1:13.2 | I started a podcast many many years ago called gay Mormon Stories. I convinced my cousin Daniel Parkinson |
| 1:20.1 | To kind of lead that up and he led it for a long time dozens and dozens of episodes got created |
| 1:25.1 | And then Daniel was ready to move on so gay Mormon stories kind of got parked and then after I met Kyle and got to know him |
| 1:32.5 | He wanted to kind of either revive it or do his own thing and what I did is I did my best to kind of hand over the reins of gay Mormon stories |
| 1:40.1 | he rebranded it and |
| 1:42.4 | relaunched it and |
| 1:43.9 | ladder gay stories has been one of one super influential |
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