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1504: Dallin H. Oaks Reverses Course on LGBTQ at The University of Virginia

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Recently in a speech given at the University of Virginia, Mormon apostle Elder Dallin H. Oaks denied that Electroshock Therapy as a form of gay conversion therapy was used/studied during his tenure as president of Brigham Young University in the 1970s.

Join us on 11/18/2021 at 3pm (mountain) where we will discuss the history of Electroshock Therapy at BYU - and determine whether or not Dallin H. Oaks was being truthful when he denied that gay Electroshock therapy was used/studied at BYU during his time as BYU President. We will be joined by historian Connell O'Donovan and Kyle Ashworth.

Show Notes:

• "Going Forward with Religious Freedom and Nondiscrimination," address by Dallin Oaks at the University of Virginia on November 12, 2021
• Q&A session with Dallin Oaks prior to the UVA address
• Latter Gay Stories podcast, hosted by Kyle Ashworth
• Mormon Stories interview with Hannah Comeau
• Hunter et. al. v. the United States Department of Education
• The Religious Exemption Accountability Project
• "School of Law event with Dallin Oaks draws protest from Lambda Law Alliance," by Merrill Hart, The Cavalier Daily, November 16, 2021
• "On The Record: A Chronology of LGBTQ+ Messaging," by Latter Gay Stories
• Mormon Stories interviews with Greg Prince
• "Principles to Govern Possible Public Statement on Legislation Affecting Rights of Homosexuals," Statement by Dallin Oaks on August 7, 1984
• "Dallin Oaks says shock therapy of gays didn't happen at BYU while he was president. Records show otherwise," by Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune, November 16, 2021
• Church statement denouncing conversion therapy---insofar as it involves "abusive practices" and allowing a "religious exemption" to the ban
• A screenshot of the 2012 Church website "Mormon and Gay"
• Another screenshot of the 2012 Church website "Mormon and Gay"
• In 2016, the name, tone, and content of the “Mormon and Gay” website were changed.
• "The Popular Myth of the Victimless Crime," by Dallin H. Oaks, Brigham Young University Press, 1974

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