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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
You do realize this is worse than the priesthood ban ever was. The priesthood ban was mostly metaphysical and even at that affected very few people. Here you have virtual children being kicked out of school, shamed in the most devastating possible way, driven to suicide, denied admission to an educational institution. Real world agony being inflicted by BYU. And all people are affected in the sense that we all have family and close friends who are gay. It cuts across all socio-economic classes, races, and genders, and here the biggest impact is on youth.
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I disagree. The priesthood ban affected numerically large numbers of persons. The gay issue affects a numerically small number, but even so leadership should have learned about the negative impact the priesthood ban had.
The US black population represents about 16% of the overall population. The gay population represents about 1.7%. The suicide issue is over-stated for PR and emotional effect (any suicide is bad but the raw numbers are small). So this has one tenth the affect, but nonetheless the bureaucratic leadership has no institutional memory of past mistakes.