What hurtful things do Church members say?

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week Ben and Charlie are joined by T.J. Thomas, a therapist who identifies as bisexual, for a conversation about hurtful things that well-meaning members of The Church of Jesus Christ might say to an LGBTQ+ individual. They also have a discussion about bisexuality and what it's like for T.J. to be a male, bisexual, Latter-day Saint.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Ben Shalatti and I'm Charlie Bird each episode
0:04.6	We discuss a question that we commonly get asked as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints
0:08.1	We're not trying to answer this question or come to consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives
0:12.3	Today's question is what hurtful things do church members say?
0:15.8	Ben and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions on life experiences
0:19.6	For example, we both have a lot of BYU swag
0:23.1	However, there are swag swag ass in like close
0:30.0	His walk across gave us with best swag
0:34.4	Okay, however, there are some pretty big differences
0:36.6	For example, we both have different kinds of swag once again free BYU stuff not swagger
0:43.2	Yeah, so my most recent BYU swag they give these
0:47.3	Like they give gifts Christmas gifts to all the employees
0:49.9	And you could like pick some and there was like this like book or like a puzzle
0:53.4	And I was like I'll take the free water bottles and the beanies because I would use those
0:57.2	You're always sporting water bottle. Mine are all like Nike sweats and sweatsuits and sweatshirts and shoes and
1:03.7	Athletic gear how a lot of Nike gear for you. I would love some BYU like athletic gear
1:08.4	Everything I own is blue now because everything I wear to the gym is like free shirts
1:11.6	I got from like
1:12.9	Some event I went to a BYU speaking of free shirts. I don't know who I'm going to offend in my program
1:17.6	Sorry whoever designed that shirt that I hate but the social work program gave me this shirt and I hate it
1:22.3	And I got it and I was like I will never
1:24.8	Ever wear this shirt and then the next day I come over and Ben's wearing the shirt. I actually really like it
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