{"id":16047,"date":"2021-09-20T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=16047"},"modified":"2021-09-20T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:02:57","slug":"how-do-i-ask-my-roommate-religious-if-they-are-homophobic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/09\/20\/how-do-i-ask-my-roommate-religious-if-they-are-homophobic\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I ask my roommate (religious) if they are homophobic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/aw092021-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/aw092021-4.jpg\" alt=\"How do I ask my roommate (religious) if they are homophobic?\" class=\"wp-image-16041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/aw092021-4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/aw092021-4-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>How do I ask my roommate (religious) if they are homophobic?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First, ask yourself whether it&#8217;s crucial. If you&#8217;re just curious, it&#8217;s probably not worth creating a schism. If it&#8217;s crucial, you could ask it in a roundabout way: what&#8217;s their religion&#8217;s position on LGBTQ issues? They might relay their own position in the process. The other question is what you&#8217;d do with the information. If this is regarding your own sexuality and they&#8217;re homophobic, would you keep it a secret? Come out anyway? Ask for a housing change? Before you do anything, I&#8217;d recommend visiting the LGBTQ-friendly folks at the Office of Student Outreach and support: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/LBGTQBC\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/LBGTQBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, ask yourself whether it&#8217;s crucial. If you&#8217;re just curious, it&#8217;s probably not worth creating a schism. If it&#8217;s crucial, you could ask it in a roundabout way: what&#8217;s their religion&#8217;s position on LGBTQ issues? They might relay their own position in the process. The other question is what you&#8217;d do with the information. If &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/09\/20\/how-do-i-ask-my-roommate-religious-if-they-are-homophobic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do I ask my roommate (religious) if they are homophobic?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16061,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions\/16061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}