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Mormon Stories Podcast

1468: Recognizing Your Two Gay Sons Aren’t Broken in a Mormon Military Family - Kelly & Heather Laing Pt. 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Wrapping up our epic three part interview with the Laing family, Heather and Kelly detail the path of love and acceptance they took while deconstructing their faith in the Mormon god’s plan for families. We hope you’ll resonate with their description of uncovering troubling Mormon history, growing closer as a family, and realizing none of them are broken, least of which their two gay sons.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to part three of this epic Mormon stories podcast interview. I'm John DeLin

0:07.1

I'm here with Cara Burrell. Hey Cara hey, and we are doing part three of the Lang family Kelly and Heather Lang

0:14.8

We did the first part with them talking about their Mormon upbringing and their life in the military in the US Navy

0:21.2

With Kelly commanding nuclear submarines. It's amazing four-hour interview. You got to watch it

0:26.4

Then we had part two where we had Mason and Britain laying talk about being raised Mormon

0:32.0

but also as being gay Mormons and what that was like for them Britain

0:37.6

reaching the point of suicidality as a gay Mormon missionary Mason as well having suicidal ideation as a gay Mormon teen

0:44.8

And how they both came to terms with that came out to their parents and what that reception was like

0:49.6

You got to listen to part two and check that out and what today part three this final part is going to be about is

0:55.8

To answer this question of how did the son of a orthodox Mormon seminary and institute teacher Kelly's father and the daughter of a

1:06.5

orthodox Mormon family or semi orthodox family growing up in Idaho Falls

1:10.6

What would cause these stalwart featured in church news featured in the end sign kind of model Mormon military couple

1:18.2

What would cause this amazing power couple this amazing power family to lose their faith in and leave the Mormon church

1:25.1

And by the way, this has only happened in the past 12 months. So it's all super fresh and

1:30.6

People deserve to know why would such an amazing Mormon family ever lose their faith and leave the church

1:36.1

And that's what part three is going to be about so welcome back Kelly and Heather. Thank you John

1:40.2

Yes, thank you. It's a pleasure to be back and I want to say you hear your sons

1:45.3

Yes, and that's actually one I want to start off with is just thank you for that opportunity to sit there and listen to our sons tell their story from their perspective

1:53.3

To somebody else brought incredible perspective to us and

1:58.2

That was a gift that no one else could give us. So thank you John

2:01.8

I think I we needed to jump back into where we started to find out about Britain

2:07.0

So we had moved out to Annapolis, Maryland

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