Brigham Young University, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
dropped a section from its code of conduct relating to “homosexual feelings” which led to
praise from the media and students over the school becoming more progressive. The school
released a statement pointing out that there has been a misunderstanding, the official stance
of the university still opposes same-sex marriage. Current and former students spoke out in
outrage and sadness over the confusion. The church bans other things as well, such as alcohol,
beards, and piercings.
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Source: Mormon-owned BYU: Same-sex romantic behavior still banned at
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Call me simple-minded and conformist, but why would anyone belonging to any so-called progressive movement want to be associated to a religious institution.
I have always believed that religious institutions exist and survive because they are able to preserve their fundamental tenets. Regardless of whether I agree with them or not, I cannot pretend to impose external notions and change them because that would make me feel more confortable.
I remember (and I think I have told this anecdote before) some years ago in one of my chidlren's lit classes at Universidad de Oriente, here in Cumaná, some gay students were trying to argue that nowhere in the bible were they condemned.
I asked them if they had read the bible; obviously they had not.
I invited them to bring a bible to class next time, which they did not do, so I used mine.I showed them some of the places where homosexuality and other forms of "dexual deviations" or transgressions are punished or frown upon. I tried to raise awareness about the fact that most religious would accept them, only once they have "renounced their wicked ways". So, they had two options, either they stopped being gays or they moved on with their lives outside any of the main monotheistc a religions we know.
The gods on which mainstream religions are founded does not tolerate sexual deviations. We cannot change that. We can make up our own liberal religions, like some people have done, but we cannot pretent to force religion to accomodate to every single liberal demand.
I just can't undertsand how a liberal-minded person can still conceive some form of organzied religion and not find it contradictory to whatever life style they pursue.
Sometimes i don't understand.
If the Bible wants us to be happy, why should it forbid us to be with a person of the same sex?
It is unacceptable. If people love each other, they must have the right to marry! It is happiness that counts.
As a private religious institution, they can do as they please in this regard. What baffles me is why anyone would want to go to, or associate with a university of church that engages in such practices.
Priests cannot already have wives. if they forbid having homosexual relationships, just as forbidden to have any type of relationship. It's ridiculous, everyone has the right to choose between single, gay, heterosexual, LGBT... We must all be free and have the right to choose.
Religion shouldn't oppose. No one can know their next boyfriend / girlfriend.