Lesson of 2016: BYU Will Continue to be Targeted for Claims of Conscience
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Warren WarsDecember 28, 2016
OK. I guess the Big 12 will take their ball and go home. I think we can live without them. Supporting some group because the way they have perverted sex seems downright silly to me. How about picking a real issue? How about wicked socialist dictators (I know it's redundant) enslaving their masses, or our wicked politicians spending the next three generations into oblivion? Need more ideas? Open your eyes! Millinneals! What a silly group of non-achievers...
Kim ChampionDecember 27, 2016
When you remove athletics from BYU, you also lose the scholarships that are given to male and female student athletes. The many jobs that are filled by athletic staff and facilities staff would be gone. What about the opportunities BYU has for missionary opportunities through the athletics? Athletics at its finest is friendly competition where athletes dedicate themselves to honing their personal talent. It is about good sportsmanship and respect for your opponent and how them performing at their best pushes you to perform at your best. I think LGBT people are against BYU because of our church's doctrine that marriage is between one woman and one man. I think no conference will invite BYU to join because of BYU choosing not to compete on Sundays. There are many collegiate sporting events that take place on Sundays and having to accommodate BYU would be very difficult and in some cases, unrealistic.
LumanWaltersDecember 27, 2016
Being a stone cold sober school actually HURTS byu. What is football all about? Advertising. What is a big advertiser of sporting events? Beer! Lots of it !
Not gonna like this, but . . .December 27, 2016
Excellent points. I look forward to the day when BYU can shed all intercollegiate athletics, as BYU-I and BYU-H have done, in order to focus all efforts and budgets toward education and strengthening the members' faith in an increasingly unfaithful world. While I know many will mourn and weep when college athletics is gone, having put too much faith in sports, in the long run it'll be a far better for all of us members involved. Competition is not the Lord's way; Zion cannot exist with the spirit of competition. I just hope we make that shift before LGBT and others force us to. It'll do little good to appear to cave to their agendas, when we have a much greater one of our own to fulfill.
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