Episode 392: Warren Bittner, Gay Latter-day Saint, Early 60s, Married Father of 3

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Warren Bittner joins us to share his experiences of living as a gay Latter-day Saint through more than 60 years. In 1976, as a teenager, he found himself in the office of the Presiding Bishop of the Church to get help for being gay, where he was put in contact with a list created by President Spencer W Kimball, which if followed would make him no longer gay. The list changed the direction of his life in surprising ways. Recently, Warren started Sons of Sacrifice. The Sons of Sacrifice training program is for men with same-sex attraction who want to keep their covenants with God, especially of a sexual nature, and remain active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (see: http://sonsofsacrifice.org) Warren shares one of the most honest and vulnerable stories ever shared on the podcast. One behalf of all of our listeners, thank you Warren for the courage to share your story. It helps all of know better know how to come together as the same human family. ** 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.
0:10.5	We're recording this podcast on a Sunday afternoon before Christmas.
0:14.8	A lot of you will be listening to this after Christmas.
0:18.0	My guest and I hope you had a great Christmas and looking forward to a wonderful
0:21.5	2021. My guest on today's podcast is my friend Warren Bittner. Welcome to the podcast, Warren.
0:28.2	Thank you. It's an honor to be here. I'll introduce Warren, but of course we want Warren to share
0:33.9	his story. Warren is 62. He's been married for 34 years. He's the father of three
0:40.1	and the grandfather. In his email, he wrote me the best four grandchildren on the planet. He's
0:45.8	active in the church. He is gay. And obviously, at 62, Warren's been on this road for a long time.
0:53.1	And a lot of my guests are in their 20s, teens, maybe 30s.
0:57.0	And I'm really honored to have Warren on the podcast who can kind of share six decades of this journey with our listeners, things that have been helpful, things that have been difficult, the personal revelation he's received, how he stayed in the
1:11.8	church, a committed member of the church with, you know, probably difficult experiences
1:16.7	at times, but grounding experiences that keeps him in the church.
1:22.1	He's a full-time genealogist.
1:23.7	He served a mission in Taiwan.
1:26.4	We could talk genealogy right now.
1:28.1	I'm going to resist that temptation, so we stay focused on his stories of gay Latter-day Saint.
1:34.1	But welcome to the podcast, Warren.
1:36.4	Thank you.
1:37.0	It's an honor to be with you.
1:38.6	Any time, listeners, I kind of watch from my guests out my front door.
1:43.6	Our podcast room is a window that overlooks
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