1584: Coming Out at BYU Graduation - Jillian Orr
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2022
⏱️ 181 minutes
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Summary
Jillian Orr became a national news story last week when she flashed rainbow colors sewn into her graduation gown during her graduation from Brigham Young University - coming out as bisexual. This is her story.
Show notes:
- Matt Easton MS Interview
- Jeff Holland Musket talk MS episode
- Number of women in BOM
- Latter-gay stories "On the Record" document
- CES Letter
- Jillian’s Instagram Account
- Glennon Doyle - Untamed
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:05.1 | Dr. John DeLin. It is April 29th, 2022 and we are super, super excited to have with us in |
| 0:14.8 | studio, Jillian or hey Jillian. Hello my friends. Thanks for joining us. I'm stoked. Super excited. |
| 0:22.0 | So for those of you who don't know who Jillian or is in the great tradition of BWU |
| 0:27.3 | graduations a week or two ago when she was at BWU Provost graduation, she had had some rainbow |
| 0:36.0 | material sewn into her graduation gown by her sister and when she is like on stage, jumbo |
| 0:44.3 | trans active camera flashes to her. She flashes the rainbows as a way to show LGBTQ support, |
| 0:51.6 | but also to come out to the world as gay or bisexual and of course that's a big deal because BWU |
| 0:58.0 | as many of you know has really struggled with its policies and its acceptance of LGBTQ students |
| 1:05.0 | with its honor code with the law of chastity and just with its support of LGBTQ students and of |
| 1:12.0 | course we'll put in our show notes, our interview with Matt Easton who was the valedictorian who came |
| 1:17.3 | out as gay during his graduation speech. We shared that and of course we also have reviewed |
| 1:22.4 | Elder Jeffery Arhollins' musket talk where he basically calls on BWU faculty and staff to pick up |
| 1:29.2 | their muskets and defend the church against I don't know LGBTQ wokeism I'm not sure exactly how |
| 1:35.2 | to describe that, but those are a couple past episodes that will give you some context for today. |
| 1:41.9 | But for those of us who are BWU graduates including myself, my wife and I Margie met at BWU |
| 1:47.2 | you. We always sing rise and shout when Cougar comes out. I did not plan that. That was just totally |
| 1:57.7 | and of course we are joined by the brilliant the heartfelt the insightful |
| 2:03.6 | Jen camp hey Jen hi everybody you feel a better you were a little sick you feeling better |
| 2:08.9 | a little bit better today yeah yeah Jen Jen comes in whether she's well or sick she's just |
| 2:14.2 | all is reliable and dependable thanks for coming you're welcome all right so yeah and by the way |
| 2:21.1 | Jillian's story is national news Jillian do you want to tell us which media outlets you've |
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