Episode 371: Dr. Ben Schilaty, BYU Professor and Honor Code Administrator, Gay Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

My friend Ben Schilaty joins us to talk about his new book from Deseret Book called “A Walk in My Shoes: Questions I'm Often Asked as a Gay Latter-day Saint.” https://deseretbook.com/p/walk-in-my-shoes-questions-im-often-asked-as-a-gay-latterday-saint. Ben also talks about his podcast with Charlie Bird called “Questions from the Closet” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questions-from-the-closet/id1504990147 I encourage every Latter-day Saint to read Ben’s book which helps bring us together as the same human family. I also encourage you to listen to Ben and Charlie’s podcast. Great information to better understand and support LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. Thanks for being on the podcast, Ben. You are a great man doing wonderful things. The world is a better place with you in it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler. My guest on today's
0:11.2	podcast via Zoom is my friend, Ben Shalati. Welcome to the podcast, Ben. Hey, Richard. Happy to be here.
0:19.3	I always like you to introduce how people can learn your last name and how to say it correctly.
0:24.8	So will you help us on that?
0:26.8	Yeah, so I joke that my last name roughly rhymes with beef patty.
0:30.2	So chalati, beef patty.
0:32.0	Also, I say that if I had a daughter, I would name her Maddie, so it would be Maddie Shalati.
0:35.8	But it's often mispronounce.
0:37.3	I'm just
0:37.5	happy when people talk to me. Don't worry if you can't say Shalati, correct?
0:42.6	We're going to talk about Ben's new book. Will you tell us the name of your book and where people
0:48.5	can find it? Yeah, it's called A Walk in My Shoes, questions I'm often asked as a Gaylarity Saints.
0:56.7	And it's currently sold at Desire Book.
0:58.6	You can get it there in person or online.
1:02.0	It'll be available on Amazon, I think, starting in February.
1:03.5	So we can get it.
1:09.5	And I'm going to read a review on Deserate Book website.
1:12.3	There are reviews already? I haven't even looked atot. There are reviews already.
1:13.0	I haven't even looked at them. There are six reviews up there.
1:15.7	They're all five-star reviews.
1:19.4	All people are very kind.
1:20.8	This one is dated December 30th.
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