1504: Dallin H. Oaks Reverses Course on LGBTQ at The University of Virginia
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 18 November 2021
⏱️ 237 minutes
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Summary
Recently in a speech given at the University of Virginia, Mormon apostle Elder Dallin H. Oaks denied that Electroshock Therapy as a form of gay conversion therapy was used/studied during his tenure as president of Brigham Young University in the 1970s.
Join us on 11/18/2021 at 3pm (mountain) where we will discuss the history of Electroshock Therapy at BYU - and determine whether or not Dallin H. Oaks was being truthful when he denied that gay Electroshock therapy was used/studied at BYU during his time as BYU President. We will be joined by historian Connell O'Donovan and Kyle Ashworth.
Show Notes:
- "Going Forward with Religious Freedom and Nondiscrimination," address by Dallin Oaks at the University of Virginia on November 12, 2021
- Q&A session with Dallin Oaks prior to the UVA address
- Latter Gay Stories podcast, hosted by Kyle Ashworth
- Mormon Stories interview with Hannah Comeau
- Hunter et. al. v. the United States Department of Education
- The Religious Exemption Accountability Project
- "School of Law event with Dallin Oaks draws protest from Lambda Law Alliance," by Merrill Hart, The Cavalier Daily, November 16, 2021
- "On The Record: A Chronology of LGBTQ+ Messaging," by Latter Gay Stories
- Mormon Stories interviews with Greg Prince
- "Principles to Govern Possible Public Statement on Legislation Affecting Rights of Homosexuals," Statement by Dallin Oaks on August 7, 1984
- "Dallin Oaks says shock therapy of gays didn't happen at BYU while he was president. Records show otherwise," by Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune, November 16, 2021
- Church statement denouncing conversion therapy---insofar as it involves "abusive practices" and allowing a "religious exemption" to the ban
- A screenshot of the 2012 Church website "Mormon and Gay"
- Another screenshot of the 2012 Church website "Mormon and Gay"
- In 2016, the name, tone, and content of the “Mormon and Gay” website were changed.
- "The Popular Myth of the Victimless Crime," by Dallin H. Oaks, Brigham Young University Press, 1974
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm your host, Dr. John Delin. |
| 0:06.4 | It is November 17th, 2021. |
| 0:10.0 | And today I think we have a really important Mormon Stories podcast episode for you. |
| 0:17.1 | And I think Elder Dallin H. Oaks agrees with me. |
| 0:20.8 | And we're going to be talking about that in just a second. |
| 0:23.5 | But basically recently the number two highest ranking Mormon leader in the world, Mormon |
| 0:30.6 | Apostle and LDS church first presidency member, first counselor, Delin H. Oaks spoke at |
| 0:37.4 | the University of Virginia law school about, let's just say equality, LGBT key rights and |
| 0:44.4 | about religious freedom. |
| 0:46.4 | And in that talk, there are a couple of things that he did that were kind of really mind-blowing. |
| 0:52.6 | One was that he denied that BYU studied in research and practiced electroshock therapy |
| 0:59.7 | while he was president there during the 1970s while he was president of BYU. |
| 1:04.6 | We are going to be covering that in detail tomorrow on Mormon Stories podcast with Connell |
| 1:10.1 | O'Donovan and Kyle Ashworth and Herardo. |
| 1:13.0 | So that's going to be tomorrow. |
| 1:14.6 | But today we're going to be covering a couple other things. |
| 1:18.4 | We, he claimed during this speech at the University of Virginia that this was perhaps the most |
| 1:25.1 | important address he's ever given. |
| 1:28.9 | And when you think about the fact that he's been giving talks at general conference for |
| 1:32.7 | at least 30, if not 40 years, that's kind of a really significant statement. |
| 1:37.5 | So I'm going to play that really quick. |
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