How do I build bridges?

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Michael Soto, President of Equality Arizona, joins to talk about overcoming division. He shares personal family stories and talks about working with the Church to pass an LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination policy for the city of Mesa.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Ben Shalatti.
0:08.8	And I'm Charlie Bird. Each episode, we discuss a question we commonly get asked as LGBTQ
0:13.1	plus Latter-day Saints.
0:14.3	We're not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing
0:17.3	our perspectives. Today's question is, how can I build bridges?
0:21.6	Ben and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions and life experiences. For
0:25.3	example, we've both been bridge jumping. We've actually been bridge jumping together.
0:28.8	I think is that the only time you've ever jumped off a bridge?
0:31.0	No, I've jumped off a bridge before.
0:32.2	So if your friend told you to jump off a bridge and do it?
0:34.3	Well, you did and I did, so maybe.
0:37.0	However, there are some pretty big differences.
0:39.2	So that's one time that Charlie and I jumped off a bridge. I was wearing jeans
0:43.2	because it was not planned.
0:44.5	Yeah.
0:45.0	So you're like, let's jump off this bridge.
0:46.6	And I was like, I don't, I don't think so. I'm wearing jeans.
0:50.2	And you said, let's do it.
0:51.0	I always dress more appropriately for the bridge jump.
0:53.2	Charlie was dressed ready to jump off of a bridge.
0:56.5	I'm always ready.
0:58.3	I love that. Like, I'm always like, it depends on the, like,
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