My Religion Won’t Let Me Be Gay, So I Have To Choose

Other People’s Lives

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:00.0	It's complicated and it's hard to live a life that you are taught as so wrong and against
0:10.0	God's standards and yet still have those feelings if you were born always having those feelings.
0:27.9	Welcome back to other people's lives.
0:28.7	I'm Joe Sanagato.
0:29.6	I'm Greg Dyback. For anyone out there that would like to be a guest in our show, don't hesitate to reach
0:32.3	out to us, our email is OPL podcast at gmail.com.
0:36.1	Today, we're speaking to a man who is struggling between his sexuality and his religion.
0:42.6	He sent us an email and the subject line reads,
0:45.8	Living like I'm closeted, even though I'm technically out.
0:49.7	So we've got the guest on the line and thank you so much for being on today.
0:53.7	Hey, thanks for having me on.
0:55.6	Yeah, of course.
0:56.4	So can you just talk a little bit about your faith and the religion that you practice?
1:06.5	So I grew up and was raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
1:11.6	I was baptized as a member probably 15, 20 years ago.
1:19.6	And I just grew up in a very happy family.
1:24.6	I have a really good family who's always been kind and loving with me. We've
1:33.3	always got along, really no problems within the family. We always seem to connect and really just
1:43.9	have a good life. i don't ever remember back
1:48.3	looking back on my life where my childhood was ever unhappy interesting so uh and can we like
1:56.4	when when did you start to feel like you had this struggle, I guess, in your life?
2:12.8	Probably, you know, interestingly, I've always had those feelings ever since I remember.
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