1467: Growing Up Gay in a Mormon Military Family - Britton and Mason Laing Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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ποΈ 26 August 2021
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What happens when two sons in a Mormon military family come out as gay? In part two of our interview with the Laing family, we talk with Britton and Mason Laing about the unique struggles they faced, what it was like coming out, and their advice for other gay teens.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John DeLin |
| 0:05.1 | We are now four hours into an epic interview with the Lang family the first four hours |
| 0:11.5 | We're with Kelly and Heather Lang where we talked about their Mormon stories growing up in Idaho Falls |
| 0:17.0 | Idaho but also talking about Kelly's career as a naval officer in the US Navy and as a |
| 0:24.9 | Commander of naval submarines nuclear submarines and all the amazing |
| 0:28.7 | Experiences that Kelly and his wife Heather had being orthodox active believing faithful Mormons and serving in the US Navy |
| 0:36.5 | including six years of |
| 0:38.8 | Service in a submarine floating a who knows where doing who knows what but also serving at the US naval Academy and everything in between |
| 0:46.6 | It's an epic powerful gripping story of patriotism of faithfulness of family and |
| 0:53.5 | If you haven't watched that pause this go watch that or listen to it and then come back |
| 0:58.7 | But where we left off was after this distinguished career |
| 1:03.2 | There was kind of this parallel story happening where Kelly and Heather Lang have four children |
| 1:09.2 | Heather's raising these four children sometimes alone while Kelly's off to see and serving in his military career and |
| 1:15.8 | Two of these four children Britain and Mason were growing up doing the the super Mormon life |
| 1:23.3 | And at some point became awakened to the fact that they were gay and we have we have had lots of LGBTQ people |
| 1:30.4 | Here are more of a stories talking about their stories |
| 1:32.7 | We've never had to that I remember two gay siblings talking about it |
| 1:37.9 | So it's one thing to be gay Mormon |
| 1:39.2 | It's another thing to have a sibling who's gay and to be raised as a Mormon |
| 1:42.9 | And that's what this second part is gonna be about so without any further ado |
| 1:47.9 | Britain and Mason Lang welcome to Mormon stories podcast. I'm John. I don't thank you for having us |
| 1:54.9 | So who's Britain who's Mason? I am Mason. I'm Brian. I'm Brian and this is Mason. I'm Mason. Yes |
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