Mormon Stake President and Temple Architect Finds HER True Self | Ep. 1957
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 200 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we interview Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president, and temple designer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who later came out as transgender while serving as a Stake President. Laurie shares her journey of growing up with a gender identity that didn’t match how she felt, her experiences on a church mission, and attending Affirmation for LGBTQ+ Latter-day Saints. She also discusses her work designing temples, her struggles with the 2015 Exclusion Policy for children of gay couples, her excommunication, and the church’s evolving policies on transgender individuals.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast I'm your host |
| 0:04.1 | John de Lynn it's October 22nd 2024 and today we are going to be tackling a really |
| 0:10.1 | important topic and a really important story it's also sort of a you know where are they now |
| 0:16.7 | feature on Mormon Stories podcast. Today we are interviewing for at least the |
| 0:22.1 | second time, |
| 0:23.0 | Lori Lee Hall. |
| 0:24.8 | Hey Lori Lee, how are you? |
| 0:26.8 | Great. |
| 0:28.6 | And not only is Lori Lee an amazing human that we're so grateful to have back on |
| 0:34.6 | Mormon Stories podcast. Those of you who are die-hard fans of Mormon stories |
| 0:38.2 | or who have been listening for a long time will know that episode 770 to |
| 0:42.2 | 773 were were Lori Lee's original |
| 0:46.7 | Mormon story. Lori has served as a Mormon Bishop as a Mormon state president and as chief architect for the Mormon church and help design |
| 1:00.3 | I don't know several dozen Mormon temples as the chief architect as many as 55 |
| 1:06.4 | actually 55 yes so so we're so thrilled to have Lori back not only because the the video the lighting the sound of our original interview |
| 1:20.0 | Wasn't was an optimal is that fair to say? |
| 1:24.0 | This is very comfortable, thank you, Chun. |
| 1:28.0 | But also just because Lori's story has evolved and and if that weren't enough |
| 1:35.7 | Lori has is publishing a new book |
| 1:40.4 | releasing a new book published by signature books and unless the title is changed |
| 1:46.2 | between the advanced copy and the published copy the book is entitled |
| 1:51.2 | Dictates of Conscience from Mormon High Priest, and I can add Bishop and State President and Chief Architect for the Mormon Church of Temples, etc. |
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