Ep. 178 - Amber Cantorna, Author of Refocusing My Family

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Amber Cantorna was a home-schooled child raised in a conservative Christian family. But her father wasn't merely a believer. He's spent 30 years as an executive at Focus on the Family, the ministry founded by James Dobson and known as one of the most anti-LGBTQ groups out there. All of that became a problem when Amber came out as gay, a pivotal moment in her life which she writes about in her forthcoming memoir Refocusing My Family. We spoke about how her relationship with her family changed after coming out, why she still believes in God, and why taking off her purity ring marked a new beginning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Hemmant Meta and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast.
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0:08.0	Friendly Atheist Podcast. Thank you all so much for the kind words you've sent over the past couple of weeks.
0:14.4	As Jessica said in a previous episode, I did have a baby.
0:18.2	It was delicious and I'm eager to get back into this.
0:22.3	Jessica's out of town this weekend,
0:24.2	so I was excited to do an interview with someone
0:27.7	whose book I heard about
0:29.8	and I really wanted to talk to her.
0:31.5	So I wanted to share that with you this week and then next week
0:34.2	Jessica will be back and we'll be discussing new stories as usual.
0:39.8	Amber Cantorna was a homeschool child raised in a conservative Christian family, but her father
0:45.4	wasn't merely a believer.
0:47.6	He spent 30 years as an executive at Focus on the Family, the ministry founded by James Dobson, and known as one of the most anti-LgBT groups out there.
0:59.4	He's actually still working there. So after all of that, as you can imagine, it became
1:05.4	something of a problem when Amber came out as gay. She's about to publish a
1:10.5	memoir called Refocusing My Family,
1:13.6	and I've been really eager to talk to her
1:15.8	ever since I heard about this book.
1:18.6	Tell me about your childhood
1:20.1	just so I can get an understanding
1:22.0	of kind of the environment you grew up in.
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