1810: David Archuleta's Mom Tells Her Mormon Story - Lupe Bartholomew
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 171 minutes
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Summary
Lupe (Mayorga) Bartholomew is American Idol finalist David Archuleta's mother. Lupe, her mother, and her three sisters joined the LDS church in Honduras on September 22, 1978. Ultimately, Lupe and her family came to the United States to live the Mormon dream. Lupe lived as a very happy, fully believing, orthodox Mormon mother until 2022, when her son, David, came out as gay. David's difficulties with the LDS Church's LGTBQ policies and doctrines caused Lupe to begin questioning the Mormon faith that she loved. This is Lupe's Mormon story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmestores podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:03.8 | Delin. It is September 13th, 2023 and we are so super excited or animato to have with |
| 0:13.0 | us today in studio loopay Bartholomew. Hey loopay. Hola, como está? Muy bien. Much |
| 0:19.7 | gusto a ver hoy. Oh, my Spanish is so good. We'll see what we can do. Lo hizo muy bien. |
| 0:25.2 | So good. Yeah. Well, for those of you who don't know, loopay Bartholomew is the witty, wise, |
| 0:33.1 | talented, spunky mother of American Idol finalist, David Archileta. And loopay, we will be |
| 0:43.5 | hearing her story today. She and her mom and sisters joined the Mormon Church in Honduras |
| 0:50.5 | in the late 1970s. And eventually they came to the United States and kind of were living |
| 0:57.0 | the Mormon dream. And believe it or not, up until last year, loopay was a very devout, orthodox, |
| 1:04.0 | believing and happy Mormon. I would say, would you say that's true? Yes. So true. Yeah. That |
| 1:11.8 | is true. And then, you know, her wonderful, brilliant, talented son who fought the good fight |
| 1:18.6 | for so many years as a believing orthodox faithful Mormon, served a mission, dated as many |
| 1:25.3 | girls as he could. And in such a heartfelt sincere and thoughtful way, came out last year on |
| 1:34.3 | Instagram, as I remember, and came out as gay to the Mormon world. And that was the beginning |
| 1:41.8 | of loopay's Mormon journey as it took a turn. And so what we're going to do is we're going to |
| 1:48.9 | today hear loopay's Mormon story. The focus is going to be on loopay and her story. And we're going |
| 1:56.5 | to then talk about kind of what changed for her and how she's processed those changes and where |
| 2:03.0 | she is today in her Mormon journey. And I'm so thrilled to have with us as co-host for today. |
| 2:10.6 | Hey, Harada. Hey, Harada. How are you? Good. How are you? Yeah. Good. I'm super happy to be here. |
| 2:17.2 | Yeah. And I was delighted when I found out that you and David had become, I don't know, friends, |
| 2:23.7 | as our friends, is that a fair way to do? Yeah. Yeah. You guys are friends. So last year, |
| 2:29.0 | I found out that David reached out to you. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. So I met loopay a few |
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