Chino_Blanco

Chino_Blanco OP t1_is3zrqf wrote

Reply to comment by apathyontheeast in BYU students, alumni participate in nationwide walkout to protest LGBTQ+ discrimination by Chino_Blanco

Most of these students will eventually leave Mormonism behind. Many of them were raised in families that applied pressure and incentives to push them into going to BYU. I was one of them. It’s a lot to ask an 18-year-old to take that kind of stand against family expectations. Props to these students for lifting where they stand, which happens to be BYU, for now.

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Chino_Blanco OP t1_is3qs6k wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in BYU students, alumni participate in nationwide walkout to protest LGBTQ+ discrimination by Chino_Blanco

From the link:

>The walkout was organized by the Black Menaces and the Religious Exemption Accountability Project, a group that is working to ensure equality for LGBTQ+ students at religious schools.

Meet the Black Menaces: https://www.theblackmenaces.org/

In answer to your query, I’m guessing not the same.

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Chino_Blanco OP t1_is3ho30 wrote

Reply to comment by Zealousideal_Bid118 in BYU students, alumni participate in nationwide walkout to protest LGBTQ+ discrimination by Chino_Blanco

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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