I also chuckle when guys on CB say that BYU's position is a mainstream position, especially for Big 12 country, and that average ordinary Americans in middle America will be outraged if BYU is passed over for reasons of bias/discrimination.
They absolutely don't get it. There will be zero outrage. Middle America has moved on and is done debating whether gays can kiss, have sex, or get married. Or wear earrings.
I get that Mormonism doesn't easily change, especially when long-standing doctrines are in play. What disappoints me is where the church seems to violate its own doctrines and principles in doing things like excluding children of gays from being baptized. "Let the children come unto me. But not the ones with gay parents." And no I don't buy that this is all about loving gay Mormon families or gays or gay Mormons. There is no evidence for that. It's about excluding. And keeping the "problem" of gay married couples out of the church.
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