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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

Latter-day Saint, Christ, Society & Culture, Mormon, Gay, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Lgbtq, Transgender, Church Of Jesus Christ, Christianity, Lgbt, Lds

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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This week in our IN the Scriptures episode, Clare Dalton sits down with Ben Bernards, an author, blogger, podcaster, and a beloved youth speaker known for his energetic love of the gospel. He is also a husband and father to three daughters—two of whom are trans. Together, Ben and Clare dive into the Doctrine and Covenants and reflect on what it means to truly embrace light and truth: by trusting God, overcoming fear, and letting go of previously held beliefs.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to All Out in the Open. This week, we are back in the Scriptures with our co-host Claire Dalton.
0:06.0	And in this episode, Claire talks about the August curriculum for gatherings. So if you are hosting a gathering in your home, with your friends, with your family, with your loved ones, this episode will help prepare you for that discussion.
0:16.9	Then real quick, could you explain what gatherings are and how someone can get involved or start with?
0:25.8	Yes, gatherings are local LGBTQ support groups that someone starts in their homes.
0:30.7	It's kind of like a come follow me group that's LGBTQ focus for LGBTQ folks and allies.
0:31.5	There's a curriculum.
0:34.9	You can find access to resources on the website.
0:35.9	They teach you how to do this.
0:37.9	And it's not as hard as it seems.
0:43.4	Yeah. And really, if you just go to gather dash conference.com and click on gatherings, exactly how to do is there outlined very simply. Anyone can do it. There's also a directory of gatherings in your
0:47.4	region or area if you're looking for some extra support. All right, welcome back.
1:00.4	This is another episode of All Out in the Open with Claire Dalton,
1:03.2	and we are in the scriptures today with my friend Ben Bernards.
1:06.4	Ben, say hi.
1:07.6	Hey, everybody.
1:08.6	Hey, Claire, thank you so much for having me.
1:10.2	So glad to be here. Thank you so much for having me. So glad to be here.
1:11.0	Thank you so much for being here. Where are you joining us from? Your remote guest. So you're not
1:15.9	in the studio with me and you are in Sacramento, California coming from Elk Grove. Yep.
1:21.7	I love that. Okay. Well, Ben, our listeners are excited to hear from you. What would you like
1:25.7	them to know about you? Wow, let's see. So I'm a husband. I'm a dad. I've got three wonderful kids, one sis, two trans.
1:35.6	I was born and raised in the church, born from Utah. I lived out here in California about the past 20
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