Episode 410: Ty Mansfield and Jeff Bennion, Co-Founders of North Star

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In anticipation of the upcoming North Star Conference, on June 10th-13th, my friends Ty Mansfield and Jeff Bennion join us to share their story of the founding of North Star—how and why it all started. They share the goals, vision, and mission of North Star, as well as address some common misconceptions about North Star. Ty and Jeff also share some of their personal stories as Latter-day Saints navigating the intersections of sexuality and faith and their personal paths forward. You can learn more about North Star at NorthStarLDS.org register for the June conference at NorthStarLDS.org/Conference2021. I am deeply supportive of North Star—I encourage everyone to check out this organization and consider attending the conference. Please check out this LDS living article with Stephen Nelson's experience and testimony at last year's conference https://www.ldsliving.com/-Just-believe-The-unwritten-story-of-the-fourth-member-of-GENTRI-the-gentlemen-trio/s/93473 Thank you, Ty and Jeff, for being on the podcast and for your wonderful and needed work to better love and support our LGBTQ+ members and their families. ** 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 listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.5	This episode will focus on North Star.
0:12.2	It's being recorded in May and released in May of 2021, with the goal to connect more of you to the upcoming North Star Conference in June.
0:22.7	And we'll have links to North Star registration, the podcast description. But who better to talk about North Star than its
0:28.9	co-founders, Ty Mansfield and Jeff Benyon. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you, Richard. We're really
0:33.9	honored to be here. Yeah, happy to be here. And this will be kind of a, I think the order will be as Ty and Jeff will introduce themselves, their stories if you're not familiar with them.
0:45.6	Then we want to introduce North Star to you, our listeners.
0:50.4	Some of you may be very familiar with North Star and planning and attending.
0:54.1	Some of you may just very familiar with North Star and planning and attending. Some of you may have just want to learn more about North Star and I'm honored to have these two good men on the podcast to explain North Star, its mission, its focus, the type of people, the groups that they're inviting to come to their conference.
1:10.0	I've been to their
1:11.2	conference several times. I felt a wonderful spirit there. One of the greatest spiritual experiences
1:17.9	I've had are in some of these breakout sessions as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints share their story.
1:24.0	And I'm grateful for the work that they're doing.
1:28.3	If I do a good job, listeners, I will not talk very much and let these two good men share.
1:33.3	So let's start.
1:34.3	Who wants to go first and introduce their story?
1:37.3	I want you to go, Ty.
1:38.3	All right.
1:39.3	I'll go first.
1:40.3	So just I'll give you the brief digest version.
1:42.3	So I grew up in Utah, attended BYU.
1:47.6	I was not, I think I had some awareness, but was pretty in denial about sexuality until probably two years after my mission.
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