Episode 299: Daniel Carter, LDS Composer and Music Department Employee, Same-Sex Marriage

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

My friend Daniel Carter joins us to share his story as a gay Latter-day Saint. Daniel served a mission to England in the late 70’s and then worked for the Church in its Music Department for 27 years until his retirement in 2016. In that assignment, Daniel blessed many lives managing the Church’s worldwide production of sheet music. Daniel, a gifted composer, contributed a song in our Hymn Book (As Now We Take the Sacrament, p.169) and two songs in the Children’s Hymn Book. Daniel shares about his failed suicide attempt in 2005 which led to a deep period of helpful reflection, rebuilding and reconnected with the Beloved. Daniel has very helpful and hopeful insights for others who are suicidal and want to find a path to healing and hope. Daniel shares about this path to find his husband Gale Frandsen … and their marriage in late 2016. Daniel and Gale have a combined 6 children and 16 grandchildren. Daniel, who has stepped away from the Church, honors everyone’s path and is not asking others to leave the Church. He shares insights and principles that can keep us together as families and communities even with differences --- something I believe our Heavenly Parents want us to learn to do. You can read more about Daniel on his blog at https://www.danielcartermusic.com/blog. Thanks for being on the podcast Daniel. Much love, respect and admiration for you as you walk a unique road and thanks for your contributions to make this world a better place.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.0	Before I introduce my guest in my home, I wanted to do a few housekeeping things.
0:16.4	This is the first podcast we're releasing with the new soundboard.
0:19.8	I've had the original sandboard for a while, but you have been messaging me that the volume hasn't been very good.
0:26.6	So my podcast guy, Tom Garbett, got me a new soundboard, and hopefully this will work.
0:33.6	I'll push all the right buttons.
0:35.6	But more importantly, you'll be able to hear our guests better.
0:39.5	And so that's the first thing.
0:40.8	So thanks for hanging in there on prior podcast as our sound has had some challenges.
0:47.1	And if you have any suggestions like that, technical suggestions, please, you know, message me
0:52.8	because this is a group effort and I want to do the very best job I can.
0:57.7	And I appreciate you leaving reviews where you listen to the podcast.
1:01.8	There's no sponsors for these podcasts, but reviews help connect other listeners.
1:06.3	My guest on today's podcast, who's in my home on this sunny July afternoon, is my friend,
1:13.0	Daniel Carter.
1:13.9	Welcome to the podcast, Daniel.
1:15.4	Oh, I thank you very much, Richard.
1:17.2	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:19.0	And Daniel's got his own recording channel, so it's a new thing where he's got his own track,
1:24.2	and I'm just going to be watching to make sure his volumes where it needs to be.
1:28.5	But to introduce Daniel, he is 64. So we're both kind of up there. I'm 59, Daniel, 64. And so two of us
1:39.1	sitting behind a mark on a soundboard is stretching at least my skills. But I have an extra, feel an extra level of
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