Episode 409: Jordan Hanks and Adam Paulsen, Gay Latter-day Saints, Getting Married, Raising a Child

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

My friends Jordan and Adam share their journey as gay Latter-day Saints. Jordan and Adam served missions, completed college, have strong careers, have been together for three years and now feel their path is to get married. While we all understand their path is outside the doctrine of our Church, this episode is about how to come together in our differences as the same human family, reduce divisiveness, and show love and support. They also talk about raising Adam’s six-year old son from his former marriage, their hopes for the future, their strong relationship with Heavenly Father, their respect for the LDS church, and their good relationship with their LDS parents. Thank you Jordan and Adam for being on the podcast and sharing your story. You are good men with a wonderful future. Your story gives insights and teaches principles to bring us together to better love and support each other. ** 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.
0:09.0	My guests on today's podcasts are my friends Jordan Hanks and Adam Paulson.
0:14.0	Welcome to the podcast.
0:15.0	Thank you.
0:17.0	These two men are getting married soon, sometime in 2021 or 2022.
0:25.6	Is that right?
0:26.6	Yeah.
0:27.6	And so they're obviously in a same-sex relationship.
0:29.6	They both have served missions.
0:31.6	They come from active LDS homes.
0:33.6	They're good men with good careers and good academic background and are raising a son together.
0:39.8	And some would ask, well, why would you do a podcast with a couple living outside the doctrine of our church?
0:44.9	And that's a fair question for those of you that haven't listened to the podcast.
0:49.5	And I'm an active LDS member.
0:52.7	And I do these podcasts to try to bring us together the same human
0:56.3	family. Elder Cook and conference in October of 2020 talked about unity and diversity.
1:03.2	And I think our heavenly parents knew that there would be great diversity in their children.
1:07.5	There's world religions.
1:09.8	As we know, most of the world population is not members of our church.
1:13.4	He has LGBTQ children scattered throughout the globe. And I think it makes them happy when we come together in unity in our differences.
1:23.7	That's certainly the story of Tom Christofferson in his book that we may be one. One to me is a great
1:29.8	visual of one in unity. Well, obviously, when Tom Christofferson was in a same-sex relationship,
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