As I said earlier in this thread, I'm okay with BYU as a conference member, and I don't paint all Mormons with a broad brush.
The most absurd thing in the thread is saying that if you refuse to support a Mormon candidate, you are a bigot and akin to saying Blacks are dumb and you can't trust Jews.
It's preposterous and is the only thing here that's offensive.
Well, that and the Mormon tenet that black folk are "of the devil".
(05-15-2021 06:24 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote: Religious bigotry.
You mean the same kind of bigotry of Mormon doctrine that until very recently in their history clearly states the 'Negro is inferior' and are 'disciples of the devil.'
That's rich. Nobody in the south had issues with blacks in their history?
I guess I missed the part where being Southern was a monolithic ideology, like saying my religion is Southern.
Being Southern means a lot of different things. Being Mormon means what I just said.
Spoken like an insular bigot.
They still dont get it. I'm through trying.
Missouri Executive Order 44 was rescinded in 1976. That apparently was too soon for some.
Not that long after separate but equal ruled the ideological landscape if that that helps anyone.
(05-19-2021 11:37 AM)snowtiger Wrote: If they are such a great addition, why do they still remain on the outside looking in?
Is this an honest and sincere question?
Proceeding on the assumption that it is:
In STATURE... BYU is above every G5 team, and A LOT of P5 teams. They have a legitimate (as far as that goes in college D1-a football) National Championship (1984). They have a national following second to only Notre Dame, and possibly Navy.
They have had a chance to join the PacXII or the BigXII in the past, but would not give into the "playing on Sunday" issue. That was mainly a basketball issue, but other sports as well. It would be a total scheduling headache to deal with for sure.
So you are looking at a P5 level program (at least in the past) that has not "sold out" in order to join a Power conference.
(This post was last modified: 05-20-2021 09:23 AM by geosnooker2000.)
(05-11-2021 12:35 AM)SeñorTiger Wrote: Really the Baylor (largest Baptist college in the nation) and TCU have homosexual rights groups that were protesting BYU?
I know a White male who got full scholly to BYU and then got discriminated against for not converting --happened at the beginning of his second year. So he joined a gang of the other kids who refused to convert. They had all gotten taken to the weirdo ceremony where they are asked to convert.
It's more cult like there, than you might think. Also quite racist.
Students of color at Brigham Young University often “feel isolated and unsafe as a result of their experiences with racism at BYU” — where the campus is predominantly white — and there’s a critical need for leaders to make changes, urges a new report from a faculty committee at the Provo school.
The findings, released Friday, expose widespread and significant concerns about the mistreatment of minority students who attend the private, religious university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And many students of color end up transferring or dropping out as a result.
There’s no place where students can go to file a complaint about discrimination, even as some experience racist comments daily, the report notes. There are few staff of color, including just one minority faculty member in all of the school’s administration.
How did my response about Baylor and TCU not having homosexual rights groups protesting against BYU turn into a race diatribe?
Everything does bro.
There are other objections posted. The forcing of their religion on those who are not 'of the body'. The punishment of any sexual act before marriage. The no alcohol at tail gates. lol No games on Sunday.
Do you guys seriously only see the race one? The 'race one' was just released in Feb 2021 by BYU itself with BYU's own suggestions for how they can improve.
Let's see if I can get clearer: It was BYU's own 'diatribe' about their own shortcomings when it comes to racial discrimination. I found it interesting and kind of refreshing that they were examining themselves. lol. And no, I don't hate them. Hate would only feed their fanaticism.
But if there were a poll here, I would vote no to having them in our conference. shrug.
the end. And they all lived happily ever after.
be thankful they aren't Seventh Day Adventists then.
They wouldn't be able to play on Friday nights, or Saturday...until after sundown.
(This post was last modified: 05-19-2021 05:42 PM by EarthBoundMisfit.)
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