1613: Persecuted by The Mormon Church - A Modern Case of Lying for the Lord - Douglas & Brennen
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 434 minutes
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Summary
Join us for an epic but daunting story of the Mormon Church going out of its way to persecute and discipline a same-sex married and non-endowed member who was trying to live a happy life outside the fear and shame of Mormon orthodoxy. With audio recordings of phone calls, meetings, and the Disciplinary Council itself, we will show the constant misrepresentations, deflections, and gaslighting perpetrated by the Bishop and the Stake President to protect the good name of the church. A modern case of lying for the Lord.
After moving out of his home-Stake, not attending church for 4 years, and 6 months after posting on Facebook about getting married to the love of his life, Brennen was handed a letter at his door. He was utterly stunned and confused as he read the document signed by his childhood bishop who was summoning him to a Disciplinary Council on the basis of his same-sex marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast and a |
| 0:05.7 | Joint broadcast with Kyle Ashworth of Latakie Saints. Hey Kyle |
| 0:11.9 | Hey John, how are you? Lettergate stories? |
| 0:13.9 | Out of these things my brain. I don't know how I'm surviving this morning |
| 0:18.2 | I will say thank you for calling me by the right last name and not Kyle hand-cought |
| 0:23.8 | That's why I forgot the name of Latakie stories |
| 0:26.3 | Because I was trying to make sure not use the wrong last name. You have way too many Kyle's in your life. I guess so |
| 0:33.5 | I'm happy to be here happy to have our audience |
| 0:35.6 | Join in with the Mormon Stories audience as well to be able to bring what I think is probably one of our |
| 0:42.8 | I don't often say historical but one of these important topics when we talk about ex-communications when we talk about the |
| 0:49.4 | Governance of the Church and then mix that in with the real lived experience of the LGBTQ community |
| 0:55.3 | Within or without Mormonism it makes for a super fascinating opportunity to do to really dive in and discuss |
| 1:02.2 | Kind of the inner working so happy to be here happy to be able to contribute and share the story for sure |
| 1:07.6 | Thanks Kyle. Thanks for all the work you do and and we welcome your audience for sure |
| 1:11.9 | I also want to welcome my co-host in righteousness and goodness |
| 1:18.6 | Horado hey, Horado. Hey John. Hey everyone. You've done a lot of work to prepare for this episode. Thank you |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah, Horado. Do you want to kind of introduce it and kind of set it up a little bit? |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah, I can |
| 1:30.2 | All right, let's do this |
| 1:32.2 | so my friends Brennan and Douglas so I went to B.W. Idaho with Douglas and |
| 1:39.2 | He was a convert to the church. We became roommates and friend really good friends |
| 1:43.3 | I never knew he was gay. He was not out to me, but I was out to him and |
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