Episode 389: Jordan Jasmer, RM, Age 27, Gay Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

My friend Jordan Jasmer joins us to share his story as a gay Latter-day Saint. Jordan shares coming out to his Mission President (positive experience) and his parents (positive experience). Jordan shares getting engaged to a woman (Jordan told her he was gay early in the relationship) and how that engagement eventually ended. They remain friends. That experience took Jordan into the most difficult emotional space of his life, filled with self-harm and thoughts of suicide, wondering how he was going find hope and stay an active Latter-day Saint. Jordan shares dating men and how that has brought him more peace and emotional stability. Jordan talks about his hope to marry a man (who also wants to attend the LDS Church). You can watch Jordan’s videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4wcZ4L0mpkrCiVkrgbbNcg. His goal with these videos are to help form bridges between the LGBTQ community and the LDS church, raise suicide awareness and to bring more perspective to those wanting to understand those who stand in these shoes a little more. Thanks for being on the podcast Jordan. You have a great life ahead of you. ** 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 to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:11.2	Before I introduce my podcast guests, as I've been mentioning in the past, the things that you can do to help the podcast or go to iTunes and rate the podcast and leave a review.
0:20.7	I read those and I really appreciate
0:22.5	that. The other thing you can do to help our efforts to bring more understanding to LGBTQ
0:27.9	Latter-day Saints is to buy my book at Amazon and Desert Book and also to leave a rating there.
0:34.4	That really helps the Desert Book rating and the Amazon rating. So I appreciate
0:38.6	anything you can do in that area. You can't donate to the podcast. It's just a labor of love,
0:44.3	but you can do those things. It's Sunday as we're recording this podcast, and we just got at a
0:50.8	testimony meeting, and I love the testimony, a member of our ward shared.
0:55.9	He said, you know, what should we be known for as Latter-day Saints? And he said, we believe in love.
1:01.9	And I just love that testimony because I look at if we really own our restored doctrine and the beauty
1:07.7	of heavenly parents that love us and we're all the same human family that
1:11.9	have all come from the same heavenly parents and it gives us a doctrinal foundation to love everybody
1:17.6	and i love elder um cook's quote um unity and diversity and that's a little bit what this podcast is
1:24.5	about is we don't just have people that are exactly the same as us on the podcast. We have people that are different than us and just, I don't mean different
1:34.0	in a negative way, but there's just differences in the human family. So that's kind of a lead
1:38.2	into my guest today is my friend Jordan Jasmer, who is going to share his story as a gay Latter-day Saint, and I'll give a little bit of a bio.
1:48.6	Jordan is 27.
1:50.4	He'll turn 28 in April of 2021, so he may be 28 by the time you're listening to this podcast.
1:57.3	He's returned missionary from Brazil.
2:00.4	He's attending Weber State in family studies. Jordan came out to his
2:06.2	parents shortly after his mission and has just been walking this road as a gay Latter-day Saint.
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