874: Chad Anderson discusses his new book - Gay Mormon Dad Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this Mormon Stories interview, we meet with Chad Anderson—a licensed clinical social worker in the Salt Lake City area and author of his newly released book, Gay Mormon Dad.
In part 1, Chad shares his story of growing up gay in the LDS Church and his quiet struggle to be completely obedient to God in order to change his sexual orientation. Even though he met all of the Mormon milestones including a mission, marriage, and having children, he found himself unhappy as ever. In part 2, Chad says that all changed when he decided to come out to the world and began to accept his whole self, including his sexuality.
Part 3 of our interview also includes a conversation between Chad and John about contemporary LGBTQ events in the LDS Church, including the impact of Prop 8, the November 2015 policy, rising suicide rates among youth in Utah, and the new First Presidency’s impact on the LGBTQ community, among other things.
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| 0:57.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmest Stories Podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm your host John DeLin. |
| 1:04.0 | It is February 26th, 2018. |
| 1:07.0 | And today we are very excited to have with us Chad Anderson. |
| 1:11.0 | Chad, welcome to Warmest Stories Podcast. |
| 1:13.0 | Thank you, thrilled to be here. |
| 1:14.0 | It's good to have you. |
| 1:15.0 | And today we're here to talk about Chad's book. |
| 1:20.0 | He just came out with it. |
| 1:21.0 | I believe it's self-published. |
| 1:22.0 | Is that right Chad? |
| 1:23.0 | Correct. |
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