Can I date?

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Ben and Charlie talking about their experiences dating while staying active in the Church.

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0:00.0	Welcome to questions from the closet. I'm Charlie Bird and I'm Ben Shalati.
0:09.4	Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked as LGBT Q Latter Day Saints.
0:13.6	We are not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus but simply sharing our
0:17.5	perspectives.
0:18.5	Today's question is, can I date?
0:20.6	Charlie and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions in life
0:23.0	experiences. For example, we've both been in same-sex romantic relationships.
0:26.2	Oh, man, why do you put on that one?
0:29.4	Honestly, the reason I say that is that's what it said in the letter from the
0:32.2	church commissioner about the honor code that same sexual romantic
0:34.3	relationships were against the honor code. I feel like it's just a gross way to say it like
0:37.9	we've both dated someone. It's just like very sterile. It's very sterile. However, there are some pretty big differences. For example, I have never used a dating app, but Charlie has. That is true.
0:54.1	I did the best I could with the knowledge I had.
0:57.6	And I didn't have a smartphone.
0:59.3	Really?
0:59.8	It was that long ago?
1:00.8	I actually got a, I think, so my mom bought me a smartphone after Jordan
1:05.2	and I ended our relationship and I think she bought it for me to like make me feel better.
1:09.6	Yeah I used dating apps for a while when I was dating but then I stopped and probably never will again.
1:16.0	Yeah, I often really caution people against dating apps because people can be really pushy.
1:22.0	And people end up doing things they don't want to do.
1:24.0	That's true.
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