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Mormon Stories Podcast

509: Meg, Jake and Jon Abhau Pt. 2 β€” The LGBT Issue Provokes a Faith Crisis

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 β€’ 5.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 20 November 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Daniel Parkinson MD, host of our sister podcast, Gay Mormon Stories, interviews Meg, Jake and Jon Abhau. Meg and Jake were conservative Mormons when their 13 year old son came out to them 18 months ago.

In Part 2, the Abhaus discuss confronting their relationships with the church after learning about Jon's orientation.

Transcript

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kindly light a myth in circling glue

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lead thou me on the night is dark and I am far from home.

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I just wanted to tell you about coming out to your school.

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I want to tell you about your process of coming out, how you learned about it.

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You told me before.

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What made you decide to go look into that issue and what made you think you might be needing to figure that out?

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Well, I don't exactly remember where but I saw two guys kissing and just something inside me.

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It just felt right. Some reason I'm not sure I wasn't really sure how or why.

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And it was near the end of the quarter in school and we had this big party thing when we were just outside all day.

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We could pretty much just do whatever we want, talk with friends.

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And so I was researching before I was just a little about doing all these pointless tests.

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I just like am to see and they came up like bisexual but the more I did them, the higher the percentage was.

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I was gay but so I started.

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So at school on the day when we had free time I asked a friend if he ever knew anyone who was gay or bisexual.

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And he pulled me aside and he asked me if I had any feelings of homosexuality.

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And something inside me just urged me to say yes and I did.

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