Episode 398: Alec and Irene Barrow's Children

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Alec and Irene Barrow’s (episode 397) children join us to talk about their love for their gay father (who is a seminary teacher in Utah) and their parents wonderful marriage. Their children are Amalia and her husband TJ, Ben and his wife McKaela, Clark and his finance Tegan, Caroline and Elizabeth. The Barrow kids love their gay father Alec and straight mother Irene and are proud to be their children—their family story is a beautiful love story. They are not embarrassed to have a gay father—but rather see their father as one of their heroes—They are proud of their parents marriage and are glad their story is being heard in a broader way. They share how having parents in a mixed orientation marriage has helped them to understand and teach the Gospel and Jesus Christ. They are glad their parents are sharing their story to help better support LGBTQ Latter-day Saints and bring us together as the same human family. The Barrow kids have powerful and needed insights on how to love, value and support LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. I encourage everyone to listen to this podcast (and episode 397 with Alec and Irene). It will help all of us better support LGBTQ members of our families and congregations. Thank you Barrow family for all your great work to teach and live the gospel of Jesus Christ. ** For More Stories, Please Check Out My New Book At: ** Deseret Book: www.deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1462135773

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.6	The prior podcast you listened to was Alec Barrow talking about his journey as a gay Latter-day Saint.
0:16.2	As you listen to that podcast, Alec is married as five children, one granddaughter.
0:24.1	And this podcast is all of his children talking about their gay dad.
0:30.3	And we have, we're going to, so this is the most we've ever had on a podcast listeners.
0:35.6	And we're going to do a good job of trying to help
0:38.3	everybody understand who's speaking. So we have all five of Alec and 10. Will someone say your
0:44.5	mom's name right before I mispronounce it? Ben, will you do that?
0:49.5	Or Irene.
0:51.5	Say Irene. It works. And Ben's mic, for some reason, we'll get to Ben in a second, isn't as good as the other mic.
0:58.4	So we're going to work on that.
1:00.3	But let's just have, we have five kids.
1:02.3	So we'll start with the oldest.
1:04.7	If you'll introduce yourself.
1:07.1	And if you're several over here with your spouse or somebody you're engaged to
1:11.8	and just introduce your spouse at the same time.
1:15.1	So we'll start with you, Amelia.
1:18.7	Amalia.
1:21.2	My name is Amalia and I am married to T.J.
1:24.9	And we're coming up on eight years of marriage this year.
1:28.9	Glad to have you here. All right.
1:30.8	Thank you.
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