Rainbow Mormon Podcast

Today I go over Elder Oaks recent address to the students of BYU Hawaii in which he gives “advice” to students about how to deal with anxiety while simultaneously creating more anxiety for them.

Coming out is hard, coming out it Utah is even harder, harder still is Utah County and I imagine Spanish Fork is even more difficult. My hat is off to our brave Utah County Commissioner, Nathan Ivie, who took a very difficult step and came out publicly today. My hope and prayer is that people… Read More »Rainbow Mormon: 010: Thank You Commissioner Ivie

The LDS Church has recently expressed a lack of support for the Equality Act of 2019 that is currently being looked at in congress. Today I take a look at the Mormon newsroom statement abut the Equality Act and share some of my thoughts and concerns with the Church’s stance.

In this episode I share about my transition from being a believer in Conversion Therapy to being being an advocate against it.

A response to Elder Anderson’s recent conference talk.  The talk seemed to reverse the bit of progress made by last weeks reversal of the 2015 exclusion policy.

After only 3.5 years the controversial LGBTQ, November exclusion policy has been done away with.  Todays episode discusses this strange 180 degree turn and the damage this policy has caused.

In today’s episode I begin to share my experience with conversion therapy and why myself and others found ourselves involved in these practices. If you have questions about this type of therapy or about my experience, please send me a message and I will try to answer your questions.   As I mentioned in the… Read More »Rainbow Mormon: 005: My Conversion Therapy Story Part 1

Conversion therapy has been a hot topic in the Utah and LDS news recently.  This episode gives a brief history of  conversion therapy and how the LDS Church has been involved in, and continues to perpetuate the use of, this debunked practice.  This is the first episode of several that will talk about this extremely… Read More »Rainbow Mormon: 004: What is Conversion Therapy?

Episode 3 explores what hurtful things gay men and women have had said to them when they came. The hope is to allow listeners to realize that what is sometimes said out of love can be extremely hurtful and to help give people a better idea of how to respond if they ever find themselves… Read More »Rainbow Mormon: 003: What Not To Say When Someone Comes Out To You