1694: Mormon Church Supports Same-Sex Marriage?
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Join us for a discussion on the Mormon Church coming out "in support" of the Respect for Marriage Act, which many Mormons are mistakenly interpreting as support for LGBTQ people, and for same-sex marriage.
LDS Newsroom Statement on the United States Congress Respect for Marriage Act
Co-host: Gerardo Sumano
Special Guests
Brenton Erickson – Public Defender
Hannah Comeau – Recent law school graduate
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host for today, |
| 0:04.2 | John Delin. It's November 19th, 2022 and we are covering some breaking news this week recently |
| 0:12.6 | in all the major newspapers, including the New York Times, the revered New York Times. |
| 0:18.4 | Headlines are breaking out that the Mormon Church is all the sudden in love with LGBT, |
| 0:23.0 | I'm being a little bit sarcastic in love with LGBT people and is now supporting LGBT people |
| 0:28.2 | and same-sex marriage and this long historical nightmare of the Mormon Church being bigoted |
| 0:33.3 | against LGBT people is over. That's kind of how it's being portrayed on social media and in |
| 0:39.5 | many newspapers including the Salt Lake Tribune and even apparently the New York Times. |
| 0:44.8 | And so you know we've been watching progressive Mormons and even post-Mormons expressing gratitude |
| 0:51.2 | and excitement all over social media. Wow, finally the Church is loving and being kind to LGBTQ people |
| 0:59.0 | and there are many of my LGBTQ friends that are concerned and that are frustrated that this |
| 1:06.0 | is not in any way a genuine act of goodwill nor is it really a change in doctrine or theology |
| 1:12.9 | or even policy towards LGBT people but instead it's being likened to you know some say a Trojan |
| 1:19.6 | horse where the Mormon Church is actually making a PR move to improve its image but then also |
| 1:28.4 | codifying protections to continue discriminating and to protect its tax exempt status while it appears |
| 1:36.1 | to the world as if it's becoming more friendly when it's actually not. So that's kind of what we're |
| 1:41.9 | here to talk about today. What has happened in the US Congress? What is about to happen potentially |
| 1:48.8 | with the Supreme Court? What exactly is the LDS Church doing and not doing? What are its potential |
| 1:55.6 | motives? And what does this all mean for the Mormon Church but also for LGBTQ people in Utah and |
| 2:02.1 | in the United States? And joining me today is one of my partners in righteousness, Herado Semano. |
| 2:08.7 | Hey Herado. Hey John. Thanks for making this happen. Yeah. How you doing? I'm good. Are you dancing |
| 2:14.8 | in the streets? Is this amazing new story or is it more complex for you? I think it's more complex, |
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