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Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Episode 454: Jamison Manwaring, Gay Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8839 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

My friend Jamison Manwaring (RM from Eastern Canada, Business Owner, Age 40) shares his journey as a gay Latter-day Saint. Jamison talks about his efforts to make deals with God to not be gay during his closeted years growing up in Idaho Falls and coming out to his Mission President who listened without judgement. Jamison talks about difficult and painful years in his 20’s and early 30’s trying to find a way to find a way forward in a healthy and sustainable way as he navigated his sexuality and faith. Jamison talks about working for Goldman Sachs in New York and how the supportive culture for its LGBTQ employees to helped Jamison better accept himself and come out in a more extended way in 2013 on Facebook (www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Thj42lMf4). Jamison is now a business owner in the Phoenix area (https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2020/07/17/valley-exec-went-from-wall-street-to-main-street.html) Jamison talks about dating men and why he feels that is the best path forward for him. Jamison talks about his relationship with the Church and how he supports those who are members of and find joy in the Church. In short, Jamison is extending grace (and inviting us to do the same) by being supportive of everyone’s individual life paths and seeing/honoring the joy that people are finding in their individual paths. Jamison’s dear mother Sue (8 children, 27 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren) joins us on the podcast to share advice for Latter-day Saint parents with LGBTQ children. Thank you Jamison for being on the podcast. You bring hope and healing and teach principles in a practical way to bring us together as the same human family. ** Please Check Out My 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.

0:09.0

My guest on today's podcast is somebody I've known for six years, but I've never met face-to-face, is my friend Jameson Manwaring.

0:17.0

Welcome to the podcast.

0:18.0

Hi.

0:19.0

Thank you for having me.

0:20.0

It's great to be here um we're

0:22.2

recording this podcast on nine 11 um you'll be listening to it after 9 11 um but that's a special

0:28.6

day obviously in the history of america i've been listened to um wonderful um production that jane

0:34.4

clason did with the Mormon taernacle Choir commemorating that.

0:38.6

So for those of you that are connected with 9-11, it's a tough day and a day to remember.

0:44.7

I'm thinking also if 9-11 was a chance that our country really came together.

0:49.4

And I recognize 20 years later we're much divided as a country.

0:53.4

And I think part of the purpose of this podcast is find unity and diversity and ways to find

0:59.5

common ground.

1:00.7

And the intersection of being LDS and LGBTQ could be a way that divides us, but it could be

1:07.0

our finest day to bring us together to find common ground.

1:11.7

And it's men like Jameson, Manwaring, Gay Latterday St.

1:15.1

willing to share his story that help us.

1:17.5

It's also the day of the Utah BYU football game.

1:22.0

And that by the time you hear the podcast will be over, but we don't know if Utah or BYU is going to win tonight and

1:28.2

Jameson is in town for that game. Is that right? That's right. I have my Utah shirt on and I was

1:34.6

walking around downtown this morning and saw a lot of blue and red intermix. So yeah,

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