Episode 318: Emily Tomkinson, RM, Respectful of the Church, Married to a Woman

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

My friend Emily Tomkinson joins us from the Seattle area to share her story. Emily grew up active LDS in Provo, served a mission, and was active until about age 30. Since that time, Emily has stepped away from the Church and is now married to her wife Jess and is the stepmom of boy/girl twins. Emily and Jess hold Family Night every Monday. Emily bravely shares her journey surviving a suicide attempt and coming to terms with her sexual orientation. Emily is in a great place emotionally and also close with her LDS family. This is a great podcast for finding common ground in our differences, keeping the family circle together, honoring personal agency and seeing good in others. Thank you for being on the podcast Emily. You are a wonderful and needed member of the human family.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.2	My guest on today's podcast, calling in over the phone from an area north of Seattle is my guest, Emily Tomkinson.
0:17.8	Welcome to the podcast, Emily.
0:20.5	Thanks, Richard. We have, Emily and I have been
0:24.5	exchanging Facebook messages since 2017, about three years, and she's felt safe enough to
0:32.8	open up to me with some of her journey, and I really respect Emily. And now she feels comfortable doing a podcast.
0:41.0	This podcast will come out roughly the third week of September.
0:46.4	Just a housekeeping thing.
0:48.5	I've been plugging my book that is coming out about the same time.
0:53.3	Encourage all of our listeners to get the book.
0:56.6	It's called Listen, Learn, and Love, Embracing LGBTQ, Latter-day Saints, the Forward by Steve Young.
1:03.2	It's meant to be supportive of our church, our leaders, our doctrine, and also supportive of LGBTQ members.
1:10.5	Those that stay in the church and also trying to create
1:13.2	more common ground with those that step away, since we are the same human family.
1:19.5	And we've been getting really good reviews on Amazon from some of you that have bought the
1:24.2	book, probably the Kindle version, really grateful for that.
1:27.7	The book is at Siegel Book, for those of you that live near Siegel Book and continue to update
1:33.0	our listeners on where it's available. But grateful for those of you that are buying the book.
1:37.4	And the book is really like the podcast, trying to bring voice to people like Emily, our
1:42.2	LGBTQ friends, because they're the ones we're really trying to listen
1:46.5	from. But as a way of introduction, Emily is 40. She is lesbian. She no longer is active in the church.
1:55.1	She is married to a woman. Her wife's name is Jess. They're the parents of twin nine-year-olds. Emily grew up in Provo, Utah, Provo High. Spent some time a couple years at UVU has a career in tech. Emily was active in the church until about, until her 20s, and maybe until 30 30 and then has stepped away from the church.
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