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Zealousideal_Bid118 t1_is3gaxk wrote

It's awesome that they are doing this, but this university is run by the Morman church right? So there is basically no chance of anything changing?

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BridgetheDivide t1_is3k6mr wrote

Hey. Mormons eventually decided Black people were actually people. Things can change. You just need to hit them in the money.

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Hickspy t1_is3q579 wrote

"I belieeeeeve that in 1978 God changed his mind about black people!"

-Book of Mormon (the musical, not the book)

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DavidMalony t1_is3llbu wrote

If only we could get Republicans onboard with that.

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dq9 t1_is3ugta wrote

Bigger money but you still have to hit them in the money.

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Chino_Blanco OP t1_is3ho30 wrote

Valid skepticism about the chances for reform at BYU, but this particular protest was part of a broader national effort to draw attention to institutions with religious exemptions from Title IX. In this instance, the focus was not on the unique structural barriers to reform at BYU so much as the effect of the religious exemptions our government grants to schools like BYU.

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badillustrations t1_is4gyz4 wrote

They used to kick people out of the church when they publicly said they were gay. They now have openly gay leadership as long as they don't have gay sex, so things do change. As the article mentions though, it's not changing the church's actual stance--just how things are run. Polygamy, for example, is no longer practiced, but a Mormon man can still be sealed to multiple women (not the other way around), so it's not really gone from their beliefs.

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Zealousideal_Bid118 t1_is4heoq wrote

That's awesome! So I can be openly gay as long as I promise to never ever ever have sex? Sounds like Mormonism is perfect for me.

In all seriousness, I wonder how many suicides the Morman church has under their belt. We probably wont ever know, they control the universities, the police, and the government in their regions, what a fucked up state of affairs. Thanks for telling me about their tolerance of gayness though, I hope it doesn't get you in trouble.

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Chippopotanuse t1_is51le2 wrote

You’d think they’d naturally embrace gay guys.

If one man is gonna marry ten women…by my maths that means there’s nine guys without a girl. And who are they supposed to fuck?

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