541: LDS Church is Now Excommunicating Legally Same-Sex Married Members - Taylor Knuth-Bishop
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Knuth-Bishop was an active LDS Church member and seminary graduate who considered himself "heterosexual with same-sex attraction" until he met the love of his life, Sean Knuth-Bishop. Taylor and Sean fell in love and were eventually legally married during the now-famous 2014 Grammy performance wherein Macklemore, Madonna, and Queen Latifa married 33 same-sex couples during the performance of "Same Love."
Taylor and Sean have been living a happy life in New York City in the theatre industry, but recently (after moving home for the summer) Taylor was contacted by his LDS bishop and informed that he will be tried in a disciplinary council for the simple act of being legally same-sex married to Sean. This is Taylor's story.
- Here is a link to the engagement video mentioned in the interview:
- Here is a link to the 2014 Grammy wedding ceremony.
- Here is the letter Taylor received from his bishop, Morgan J. Roberts.
- Here is a link to Taylor's response to his bishop.
- More photos of Taylor, Sean, and Taylor's wonderful family.
- Information about Taylor's Art program for LGBT youth and young adults:
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| 0:51.4 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:55.9 | John DeLin and as always I'm very very excited for today's episode. It's May |
| 1:03.4 | 6th 2015. This is not an interview that I planned. It kind of sprung on me but |
| 1:10.1 | it fits very very nicely with the theme that we've been covering the past |
| 1:15.1 | several weeks. So today I'm interviewing a man named Taylor Knuth Bishop just |
| 1:22.1 | to give you the preview. Taylor was raised Mormon or LDS and he was active in the |
| 1:29.8 | church, good chunk of his life and he ended up meeting the man of his dreams |
| 1:35.2 | named Sean Bishop, ended up getting married to Sean. How do you now Taylor? I'm |
| 1:41.4 | 22. 22 years old so he's kind of a young guy and he ended up getting married in |
| 1:47.7 | January of 2014 so last year we'll talk about it a bit. It's kind of fun because |
| 1:53.0 | he was married during the Grammys. I don't know if you guys remember when Madonna |
| 1:58.1 | came out and Queen Latifa came out and they married a bunch of same-sex |
| 2:02.9 | couples. Well Taylor and Sean were actually one of those couples. Anyway he's |
| 2:08.2 | been I guess in New York living his happy life. Taylor even corrects me on these |
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