[Archaea]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I felt like he was setting up a false dichotomy--that you can either have secular success or "religious" success, but you can't have both.

Imagine if BYU were to promote professors based on their testimonies rather than their scholarly work. "This guy has an amazing testimony. Mixes in humor, then gets to tears without fail." How in the world would this be measured? Wouldn't this reward the great fakers among us?

Requiring that BYU faculty be temple recommend holders is already a pretty high bar. Now what?

And let's face it, there has been A LOT of dead weight among the BYU faculty. Esp. those hired in the 1970s when there were slim pickings.

And don't even get me started about how they grade the seminary classes that they call religion courses.

After you read the article, you get the impression that if someone were to say that they opposed gay marriage they would be driven out of BYU. Give me a break. What a doofus to make that appear to be the case.

Agreed.