Episode 329: Hayden and Sydney Anderson, Married BYU Students

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

My friend Hayden and Sydney join us to share their feelings about helping and serving marginalized groups of people. Hayden, who had Ben Schilaty as his EFY counselor and is now taking his BYU class, shares his journey to better support LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. Hayden and Sydney have wonderful insights into how we can improve our culture to help everyone feel more welcome, valued, and loved. They also talk about Bryan Stevenson’s (author of "Just Mercy") speech at BYU gave them better principals to support others. Bryan’s four principals are: Find ways to get more proximate to those who are neglected and living in the margins. Change the narratives underneath the policy issues we grapple with. Stay hopeful Be willing to do things that are uncomfortable and inconvenient. Source: https://news.byu.edu/news/byu-forum-creating-justice Thank you Hayden and Sydney for being on the podcast helping us better help others feel welcome, understood, and needed in LDS congregations and society.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.0	I appreciate all of you that are buying my book and reviewing on Amazon.
0:15.0	It's called Listen, Learn, and Love embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
0:19.0	Grateful for those of you that are reading it, sharing that you're reading it on social media,
0:23.1	that helps engage others.
0:25.1	So I appreciate this, particularly this first wave of you out there that are buying the book
0:29.3	and sharing it with others.
0:30.5	And I hope the book continues to sell well and get in the hands of more people.
0:35.5	Chapter 7 is a great chapter if you're going to read just one
0:39.0	chapter. It's a chapter called ministering to LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, and it's just what we can do
0:43.8	better to help LGBTQ Latter-day Saints feel welcome, especially in LDS congregations.
0:50.3	There's some wonderful, positive things that people have done that I share in that chapter that are great.
0:57.7	So tonight's, today's, we try not to be time sensitive because you may be listening to this at five in the morning at the gym or,
1:03.7	or I guess at midnight in the gym or driving or whatever.
1:07.8	But my guests on today's podcasts are my friends Hayden and Sidney Anderson.
1:13.1	Welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Thank you. And Hayden and I have connected on social media,
1:20.3	Facebook and Twitter, and he has LGBTQ ally in his profile. So I reached out to him and asked him if he would just be willing
1:29.3	to share his journey. That's a journey that I took about four or five years ago to add that
1:34.9	to social media profile. And he said he'd be glad to come and talk about that. And he's brought
1:40.3	his wife with him. And she, you know, she's here, and I'm glad she's here.
1:45.0	She may share some thoughts on this. She's in the same general space as Hayden.
1:49.6	But Hayden's sort of the one that's just felt impressed to learn more about this.
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