What do the scriptures say about homosexuality?

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Dr. Eric Huntsman, ancient scripture historian, joins Charlie and Ben for a conversation about references to homosexual behavior in canonized LDS scripture.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet, I'm Ben Shalatti, and I'm Charlie Bird.
0:06.6	Each episode we discuss a question we commonly get asked as LGBTQ plus Latter-day Saints.
0:11.3	We're not trying to answer this question, or come to consensus, but simply sharing our
0:14.8	perspectives.
0:15.8	Today's question is, what do the scriptures say about homosexuality?
0:19.5	Ben and I are not terribly diverse, and we share many opinions and life experiences.
0:23.9	For example, we have both read the entire standard works of scripture.
0:27.4	However, there are some pretty big differences.
0:29.7	For example, I didn't read all the standard works that I was 24.
0:33.7	I read them all before I was 12.
0:35.7	That's very impressive.
0:37.5	I was a nerd, and before I got the Aaronic priesthood, I was like very, I guess I still
0:42.5	am, but I was very religious, very pious, and I was like, I want to make sure I know
0:48.2	what I'm getting into before I get the priesthood.
0:51.1	So my grandpa had tapes, like cassette tapes of all the standard works, so every night
0:57.7	I would play them read along, and it took me forever, the Old Testament's long.
1:04.0	It's very long.
1:05.0	I was also hopefully pious and good, but when I was my best friend, Mitch, in high school,
1:10.8	the one I came out to, he is a huge jokester, and one day in Sunday school, he would always
1:16.8	make stuff up.
1:17.8	And so he was talking about this guy in the Book of Mormon who cut off people's arms
1:21.0	and showed them to the king.
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