How can I be an LGBTQ+ ally while supporting Church teachings?

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🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Charlie are joined by Ally Isom to talk about how active members of the Church can be allies to their LGBTQ+ loved ones while supporting current Church teachings and policies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to questions from the closet. I'm Charlie Bird and I'm Ben Shalati.
0:10.0	Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
0:14.6	We are not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.
0:18.9	Today's question is, how can I be an ally while supporting church teachings?
0:23.0	Ben and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions and life experiences.
0:27.0	For example, we both wrote books that are published by the same publishing company.
0:31.0	However, there are some differences.
0:33.2	For example, Charlie was asked to write a book
0:35.9	and I had to beg to do it.
0:37.8	They did just reach out you, didn't they?
0:40.2	Yeah, uh-huh.
0:41.2	I always feel awkward when you do this thing. He puts me on the spot. Yeah, after I wrote my coming out article,
0:45.8	does my book book ask me to write the book. Well, I wrote them a book proposal in the summer of 2019 and they wrote me back and said,'re very busy we might not have time to look
0:55.4	at this for a couple of months and I was like I guess that's a no they were looking
0:58.8	at mine and then three and then three months they were, we'd love to see your manuscript.
1:03.3	I was like, I didn't write anything,
1:04.4	so then I had to write it.
1:05.4	Yeah, well, you did a great job.
1:06.5	Ben's book is really good.
1:07.6	Yeah, it'll be coming out in January 2021.
1:10.4	This is the first official teaser.
1:12.3	So get ready. We would like to provide a variety of voices and perspectives on our show, so today we're joined by Ali Isom.
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