Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. It looks like we're releasing two episodes in the same day. I hope that's not too much for y'all.

It is January 25th, 2024. I am here with my colleague Harardo Sumano. Hey Harardo, how you doing?

Hi, doing good. Give me one second, sorry. No problem. We are here to address a really important topic. We've titled

this Mormons are confused right now. The Mormon Church is doing a lot of things

really interesting regarding its LGBTQ policies.

Specifically, we covered just a week or two ago the Mormon Church calling as a new head of communications.

A man who has a long, I guess, multi-year history of supporting

same-sex marriage, you know, of celebrating the Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage of attending pride parades of

of supporting gender transitioning and and the correct usage of pronouns and

then they hire this man to become the new head chief spokesman for the

church and whether it's Greg Mattson of quick YouTube channel or Jacob

Hanson of the A Thoughtful Faith YouTube channel or even, you know, Carden, Ellis and Quaiku of Ward

Radio or Mindai Mormons, however they're calling themselves these days. There's a lot of confusion amongst conservative Orthodox,

I'll say even fundamentalist Mormons,

on what this all means.

I think there's a genuine fear and concern

that the Mormon Church is slipping.

It's becoming more liberal, it's becoming more progressive,

it's becoming more liberal, it's becoming more progressive, it's becoming more tolerant of LGBT people, and it's becoming more inclusive, and that has a lot of conservative Mormons and youtubers concerned specifically Jacob Hansen.

And so Herardo reached out and we decided we needed to cover this and specifically a recent video by

Jacob. Harada make sure your your video is on high-def I'm not sure if you

checked that in the in the stream art settings. But

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