1465: Elder Holland - Losing Control Over Mormon LGBTQ Support at BYU

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On August 23, 2021 Mormon apostle Jeffrey R. Holland spoke to staff at Brigham Young University during the first day of the institution's 2021 university conference. During his speech Elder Holland condemned: 1) a recent BYU valedictorian for "coming out" as gay during his graduation commencement address, 2) a recent uptick in LGBTQ-affirming demonstrations at BYU, and 3) a recent surge in LGBTQ support by BYU students and faculty. His comments appear to be in response to a corresponding surge in concerns expressed by orthodox ultra conservative/Deznat-affirming LDS church adults who are concerned that BYU is becoming to LGBTQ affirming (descending into "Babylon"). During his speech Elder Holland invoked war metaphors, including the statement, "I am grateful we have scholars today who can handle, as it were, both trowels and muskets.”

Today we will talk with Kyle Ashworth (host of Latter-Gay Stories Podcast) and Gerardo Sumano about the recent events. The main topic will be: is the LDS Church losing control over LGBTQ support at BYU and church-wide?

Show notes:

Kyle's Mormon Stories interview: https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/when-a-gay-mormon-man-marries-a-woman-kyle-ashworth-pt-1/
Gerardo's Mormon Stories interview: https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/a-mexican-mormon-story-gerardo/
Latter Gay Stories: https://lattergaystories.org/
Color the Campus: https://www.instagram.com/colorthecampus/?hl=en
Encircle: https://encircletogether.org/
Affirmation: https://affirmation.org/

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmestorys podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. It is August 24th
0:06.0	2021 and we have some
0:08.8	Kind of sad sobering news that was unexpected
0:13.0	Yesterday elder Jeffrey Arhaaland one of the senior apostles for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
0:19.3	former president of BYU was president BYU and I was there actually
0:23.7	He gave a speech yesterday on August 23rd
0:27.2	2021 at Brigham Young University
0:30.2	during the first day of BYU's
0:33.4	2021 University conference and during that talk he did many things that have been
0:39.3	Received as kind of very controversial and volatile and
0:43.3	potentially very very hurtful to the LGBTQ Mormon community and to progressive
0:49.6	Mormons and in some ways exciting and
0:52.8	animating to really conservative Orthodox Mormons and those kind of in the Desnatt
0:59.0	Desnatt crowd those who are feeling a little bit more militant
1:04.0	Against the church moving in any liberal or progressive way in his talk. He did several things
1:10.6	He reflected about his childhood memories at BYU as a boy
1:16.6	He talked about how much he loved being a president there
1:19.9	But then he went on to decry what he
1:23.4	Believes and what he has experienced from feedback from members and from parents a real concern about several things
1:31.8	He's concerned about a BYU valedictorian student who during his
1:37.2	valedictorian address at the end of a commencement speech a year to ago
1:42.3	Coming out as gay during his commencement speech. So we're gonna be talking about sort of a Mormon apostle
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