Episode 289: Jenie Hunter, Active LDS, Mother of a Gay Son

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

My friend Jenie Hunter joins us to share their family experience over the last 8 years with their wonderful gay son Nicholas. The podcast is an expanded discussion of this outstanding blog post by Jenie in June 2020: https://www-jeniehuntercoaching-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.jeniehuntercoaching.com/amp/unconditional-love If you are a parent or someone who wants to know better how to support LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, please listen to Jenie’s podcast and read her blog post. She has remarkable insights on how to navigate this ‘long curvy road’. If you are LDS and LGBTQ, this podcast may give you hope and insights to better see/navigate your future. Jenie is a certified life coach and can help you ‘stop feeling pain about your child’s choices’. Please see her web site at https://www.jeniehuntercoaching.com/. Or e-mail her at [email protected] Thank you for being on the podcast Jenie. You and your husband John are doing such a great job supporting Nicholas and using these life lessons to help and support others. Thank you Nicholas for the good man you are and your contributions to society.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.2	Before I introduced my guest, I've been getting some feedback that my volume on my mic
0:15.3	hasn't been very high, and so hopefully I've corrected that I do these kind of on my own,
0:21.4	and my technology at age 59 is a little stretch,
0:24.8	but when you have suggestions like that,
0:27.4	please let me know because I want the quality of the podcast to be top-notch,
0:32.2	and most importantly for the guests that I visit with on the podcast
0:35.5	for their stories to come through loud and clear.
0:38.7	So this is kind of a group effort, and I'm open to any suggestions you have to improve
0:42.8	the podcast right now. About 9,000 people are listening to every episode, and I appreciate all
0:49.1	that you're doing as listeners to connect more people to the podcast. But the podcast works because of heroes,
0:56.4	I call them, that come on and bravely to share their story. Every story is important,
1:01.6	and every story that we share takes a bit of courage and vulnerability as people open up about
1:07.9	their unique journey. My guest on today's podcast is my friend Jenny Hunter. Welcome
1:14.6	to the podcast, Jenny. Thank you. Jenny, I'll introduce Jenny and let our listeners know who
1:22.8	are going to speak with in the topic. Jenny is a mother of six children.
1:31.1	She has an oldest son, Nicholas, and then five daughters.
1:36.2	She lives in Tampa, Florida, where her and her husband have lived for about 15 years.
1:38.5	She is in her late 40s.
1:41.0	She's active LDS.
1:50.0	Both Jenny and her husband are active in the church and very involved in the church serving in callings and where they serve.
1:52.1	Their oldest son, Nick, is gay.
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