I am betting behind the scenes BYU took steps to assure the other schools that they would be stepping more in line. For example, the invitation to the Big 12 came not long after BYU announced their new inclusion office (whatever Mormon-PC name they called it). Which happened to be the same time as the "muskets" LGBT talk. I think the politics of the Mormon hierarchy is more complicated than we think. That's what I took away from the David O. McKay biography, among other things.
We get mixed messages because the messages are actually indeed mixed.
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