Episode 494: Justice Burt, Gay, Age 20, Convert

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

My friend Justice Burt shares his story of coming out as gay in middle school (which was a generally positive experience), being atheist/agnostic during middle/school early high school, and then his journey to join the Church. It is a unique and remarkable story. Justice talks about being gay and how he originally felt that was not compatible to being in a Christian religion. Justice talks about his friends and their love and support that gradually created a shift in Justice to be open to learning more. That eventually led to Justice’s baptism in December 2019. It is a powerful conversation story. Justice also shares, during the isolation of COVID, the experience of falling back into bad habits and coming close to leaving the Church altogether. Despite that, Justice talks about how he was always able to feel the Spirit and how he has been able to return to full activity in the Church. Justice closes with his “queer testimony”. Thank you Justice for being on the podcast. You are a great man with tremendous courage to be honest, open and authentic. Respect. You story will help so many and you have a great life ahead of you!

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.7	On our podcast, in my home is our guest for today's podcast, my friend Justice Burt.
0:16.4	Welcome to the podcast, Justice.
0:18.3	Thanks for having me.
0:19.6	I met Justice as I was asked to speak at the Salt Lake Community College Institute,
0:25.6	where Brother Christensen is doing and has now completed an LGBTQ workshop,
0:32.0	which is a series of five classes that were open to Salt Lake Community College Institute students.
0:38.4	And that's where I met Justice.
0:40.6	He's attending that class.
0:41.8	And I point that out just to share that institutes are doing a lot of work in the space of being LDS and LGBTQ.
0:52.0	I'm aware of the UB the U Institute of Jordan Institute.
0:55.7	And so I just, you know, I think that's something that can be scaled into our congregations,
1:01.9	into our stakes as we're just doing a better job of ministering to LGBTQ Latterty Saints
1:07.3	and perhaps more importantly, hearing their voices and better understanding their contributions to create Zion.
1:14.5	Justice is 20.
1:16.0	He is a convert to the church baptized two years ago in December of 2019.
1:21.1	Congratulations.
1:22.3	Thank you.
1:23.5	He identifies as gay and queer interchangeably.
1:28.3	After he joined the church, he'll talk about gay and queer interchangeably. Um,
1:28.6	after he joined the church,
1:29.8	he'll talk about sort of his coming out process and also to join the church,
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