Mormon LGBT PURGE? Excommunication of 5 Lesbian Couples | Ep. 1897

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Join us today as we discuss the shocking wave of excommunications hitting at least five married lesbian couples in the Mormon Church across the US. These events stand in stark contrast to what we thought was a hopeful shift in welcoming LGBT married couples in the Church.

Here are a few questions for the Church:

What happened?
Is the right to preserve one's membership intact a privilege reserved only for select LGBT Mormons?
How is the Church guiding these decisions?
Are divine revelations to local leaders influenced by the affluence of their congregations?
Is God giving different revelations depending on the level of backlash anticipated from local members?

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host
0:03.6	Sean Delinn. It's May 13th, 2024. We are live streaming and we have some breaking news
0:10.4	that we want to share today.
0:13.7	We don't do it in happiness or in elation.
0:17.3	We do this in a somber tone
0:20.0	without any joy or happiness really.
0:24.0	The episode for today is Mormon LGBT Purge resumes, question mark.
0:30.7	And we have some late, you know, recently told to us news that at least five lesbian couples
0:38.0	apparently have been excommunicated from the Mormon Church just in the past month or so, faithfully attending, not
0:47.4	causing any trouble, earnestly believing as I understand it and some of them with children.
0:53.0	So yeah, that's what we're going to be talking about today.
0:56.4	I am grateful to have back on our panel,
1:00.2	Geraldo Sumano, hey, Geraldo.
1:02.3	Hi John. And Julia Sanders. Hey Julia.
1:05.2	Hi. Thanks for being here under not great circumstances.
1:10.0	Yeah. Before we dive in I I'll just give, I wanted to give a few just quick little thoughts.
1:18.0	The first is, many of you will know about encircle, it's an LGBT youth home and then a series of homes that were built throughout
1:27.8	Utah and in other states.
1:30.6	The encircle was started by my dear friend Stephanie Sorensen Larson and
1:36.1	and I believe encircle has been for sure one of the most important dynamics in Utah over the years to provide support and to
1:48.0	move hearts and minds around the intersection of the LGBTQ experience and Mormonism especially the that my dear friend, Mitch Larson,
2:02.8	the husband of Stephanie Sorensen Larson,
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