1721: Gay Mormon Rescue w/ Charlie Bird and Ben Schilaty?
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 262 minutes
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Summary
Please join us for a panel discussion regarding a recent two-day LDS multi-Stake training in Canada focused on understanding LGBTQ members -- led by faithful gay Mormon podcasters Charlie Bird and Ben Schilaty (hosts of "Questions From the Closet" podcast).
Some questions that will be addressed by the panel include:
- What aspects of this training are groundbreaking and should be celebrated?
- How do efforts like this one help LGBTQ youth in the LDS pews?
- Is this a local/grass-roots effort or is it sanctioned by top LDS Church leadership?
- Does this training represent a "Gay Mormon Rescue" of sorts, reminiscent of the Swedish Rescue and Boise Rescue from previous years (see here and here)?
- What possible risks do trainings like this introduce for LGTBQ youth and young adults?
- To what extent do less-official, "grass roots" efforts like this prevent top Mormon church leaders from taking responsibility for the LGBTQ crisis (past and present) within Mormonism?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast and a joint production |
| 0:06.4 | of Mormon Stories podcast and Latter-Gay Stories podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | I believe we're streaming to Latter-Gay Stories as well. |
| 0:12.8 | It is January 26, 2023. |
| 0:16.0 | I am one of your hosts for today, John Delin. |
| 0:18.8 | And we are super excited for what I believe is potentially a historic or watershed moment |
| 0:26.0 | in the Mormon Church. |
| 0:27.3 | Maybe not. |
| 0:28.3 | We'll see. |
| 0:29.3 | But we are here to talk about what we are entitling potentially a gay Mormon rescue. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm going to explain the use of that term rescue and what it means in a Mormon historical |
| 0:42.8 | context in just a second. |
| 0:44.5 | But we are here with an all-star panel. |
| 0:48.0 | We are going to be talking about a recent training or steak training that was held in |
| 0:53.8 | Canada with Ben Shalati and Charlie Bird training. |
| 1:00.5 | Not just one steak as I understand it, but potentially multiple steaks around how to |
| 1:06.4 | treat and handle and love and deal with LGBTQ members. |
| 1:11.9 | And for me, it's something that I not only have never seen before. |
| 1:15.3 | I didn't even think would be possible even in 2023. |
| 1:20.5 | But it happened, I'm just going to say I'm super excited about it. |
| 1:24.3 | I'm super inspired by it. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm very optimistic about it. |
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